Spelling Activities List
1.
Color Words – When writing list of words, write vowels in one
color and consonants with another color.
2.
Rainbow Words – Write each word once in your best writing.
Trace over it in another color. Trace over it with a 3rd color.
3.
Silly sentences – Write 10 silly sentences using 2 spelling words in
each sentence.
4.
Word magic. Using your 10 spelling words, write the word once,
then write it a 2nd time without the first letter, then write it
without the first two letters. Repeat until the whole word
disappears! Example: spell, _pell, --ell, ---ll, ----l, -----
5.
Shortest to Longest - Count the # of letters in each word. Then
write the words in order from shortest to longest.
6.
ABC Order – Write your spelling words in alphabetical order.
Variation: Write it in reverse ABC order.
7.
Picture Words – Write your spelling words and create a picture
with them. Be sure to label the pictures that match your spelling
words.
8.
Words in Words – Write your spelling words, then write as many
words as you can discover from that word.
9.
Ransom Words – Write your spelling words by cutting out the
letters from a newspaper or magazine and gluing them to a piece
of paper.
10.
Telephone Words – Write each spelling word, then translate each
word into numbers from a telephone keypad. Example: spell –
77355
11.
Pyramid Words – Write the first letter of the spelling word. Write
the first two letters of the word below it. Then write the next
three letters, etc.
Example: s
sp
spe
spel
spell