Additional Ways to Practice Spelling Words
1. ABC order- Write your words in alphabetical order.
2. Rainbow Words - Write your words in three colors
3. Backwards Words- Write your words forwards, then backwards.
4. Silly sentences -Use all your words in ten sentences
5. Picture words - Draw a picture and write your words in the picture.
6. Words without Vowels - Write your words replacing all vowels with a line.
7. Words without Consonants - Same as above but replace consonants with lines.
8. Story words - Write a short story using all your words.
9. Scrambled words -Write your words, then write them again with the letters
mixed up.
10. Word search -Make a word search with a friend, then trade and solve.
11. Word search I - Complete a word pre-made search.
12. Crossword - Complete a pre-made crossword puzzle-
13. Surround words - Write your-words on graph paper and outline in colors.
14. Ransom words - Write your words by cutting out letters in a newspaper or
magazine and glue them on a paper.
15. Pyramid Words - Write your words adding or subtracting one letter at a
time. The result will be a pyramid shape of words.
16. Words-in-words - Write your words and then write at least 2 words made
from each.
17. Delicious words - Write your words in whipped cream, peanut butter, or
anything you can eat! Bring in a note from a parent!
18. Good Clean Words -Write your words in shaving cream on a counter or some
other surface that can be cleaned safely.
19. Dirty Words - Write your words in mud or sand.
20. Pasta Words - Write your words by arranging alphabet pasta or Alphabits.
Glue on paper or bring me a note from a parent and do on a table or counter
at home.
21. Reversed words - Write your words in ABC order -backwards!
22. 3D words - Use modeling clay rolled thinly to make your words. Bring a
note if done at home.
23. Create an activity - Can you think of a fun way to do your spelling
activities0 Try it out!
24. Puzzle words - Use a blank puzzle form. Write your words on the form.
making sure that the words
cross over the pieces. Then cut them out (color if you wish) and put them in
a baggie with your name on it. When you and a friend have completed your
puzzles, trade and put them back together.
25. Magazine words - Use an old magazine or newspaper and find your word. Cut
it out and glue it on paper.
26. Cheer your words - Pretend you are a cheerleader and call out your words!
(We will do tins as a group activity.) Sometimes you'll yell. sometimes
you'll whisper! If vou want to do this at home with a parent, get them to
send me a note that you've done it.
27. Sound Words - Use a tape recorder and record your words and their
spelling. Then listen to your tape. checking to see that you spelled all the
words correctly.
28. X Words - Write two words having one common letter so they criss-cross.
29. Other Handed - If you are right-handed. write with your left. or vice
versa.
30. Choo-Choo Words - Write the entre list end-to-end as one long word, using
different colors of crayon or ink for different words.
31. Silly String - With a long length of string, "write" words in cursive,
using the string to shape the letters.
32. Backwriting - Using your finger, draw each letter on a partners' back.
having the partner say the word when completed.
33. Telephone Words - Translate your words into numbers from a telephone
keypad.
34. Flashwriting - In a darkened room. use a flashlight to draw letters in
the air.
35. Newspaper Words - Search a newspaper page from top to bottom, circling
each letter of a word as
you find it.
36. 30 Second Words - Write a TV commercial using all the words from your
list.
37. Popsicles - Make words using popsicle sticks.
38. Secret Agent Words - Number the alphabet from 1 to 26. then convert your
words to a number code.
39. Etch-A-Word - Use an Etch-A-Sketch to write your words.
40. Morse Code - Convert your words to Morse Code
