- Popcorn
Spelling- The students will be able to spell all the words given
to them at an 80% accuracy rate.
- Round
Robin Spelling- "This is a game that
I developed to keep all students on task and learning. This game helps
the lower student gain from the higher student."
- Rhyming
Your Spelling Words- Learning spelling words does not have to be
all drill. In this activity the students will be rhyming and playing
with their own names and then doing the same things for their spelling
words.
- Shared
Spelling Strategies- In "Spelling: From Invention to Strategies,"
Howard Miller begins a lesson on "constructed" spelling by surveying
his middle school students, using Goodman, Watson, and Burke's question
from Reading Miscue Inventory (1987): "When you are working on a writing
assignment and you want to write a word you don't know how to spell,
what do you do?"
- Sidewalk
Chalk Spelling- This is a great activity for a beautiful day when
your students are eager to be outside! Here is an idea to help them
practice their spelling words and have fun too.
- Silent
Spelling- This is a good activity for cooperative group learning.
- Sort,
Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program- Spelling instruction can
be designed so that it is appropriate for all students and includes
a wide range of activities. This lesson provides a way for you to help
your students learn and develop understandings of new word patterns.
- Sparkle-
Student will play a game that challenges their spelling skills.
- Sparkle:
A Spelling Game- Student will play a game that challenges their
spelling skills.
- Spelling-
Play "Wheel of Fortune"!
- Spelling
Basketball- "My children love this game to reinforce the spelling
of our words."
- Spelling
Battleship- The students will practice spelling
vocabulary, make use of a grid, and develop a positive attitude toward
learning.
- "Spelling
Checkers"- "At the end of the lesson,
students should be able to remember how to spell different kinds of
words - depending on which vocabulary words are taught."
- Spelling
Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations-
Spelling should not be taught in isolation; weekly spelling lists should
include either related words or high-frequency words that appear in
student writing. This lesson teaches the spelling generalization for
adding suffixes to words that end with the letter y.
- Spelling
Free Throw- Children love this game. Divide students into two teams.
Line them up on opposite sides of the basketball hoop.
- Spelling
Game "Wolf"- This is a quick spelling game. All children in the
class stand to begin the game.
- Spelling
Go Fish- The students will practice their spelling words in a fun
and fashionable manner.
- Spelling
Practice- This is a great lesson for group cooperation and it is
teaching using auditory, tactile and visual learning styles.
- Spelling
Practice: Yawn!- As American as apple pie, the weekly spelling list
is a "cornerstone" of education! Admit it or not, we all use lists (by
choice or by administrative mandate!), and drilling and practicing for
Friday's test can be pretty boring!
- Spelling
Practice- Program shapes (I use apples) with teacher, speller, checker.
Group children in threes.
- Spelling
Roll- This lesson is designed to incorporate language arts and gymnastics
in a physical education unit. The activity consists of students spelling
words and using them in sentences while doing a forward roll. This is
appropriate for students up to the 5th grade.
- Spelling
with Memory Cues- "This is for any age;
however, younger children need help in selecting relevant, non-ambiguous
associations, e. g. see the explanation about how to spell the word,
color."
- The
Alphabet Game- This program may appear to be almost a noisy disaster
the first time it is done. When it happens, a very important lesson
is there to be worked with and through.
- The
Two Voices of the "ow" Spelling Pattern- This lesson can be used
as part of a series of lessons designed to show students how, in the
English alphabet, each vowel represents a different set of sounds when
used in different spelling patterns.
- "Tic-Tac-Toe
Spelling"- Make a large tic-tac-toe board
on the floor out of masking tape. Make it large enough for the students
to stand in the squares.
- Window
Shade Vocab and Spelling- One way to teach vocabulary is to take
roll- down window shades and attach them to the walls. Then, write each
vocabulary word on a post-it note and place all the post-its on the
window shade.
- Word beginnings
are crucial in spelling- Ideas for s-, sc-, c-, w-, wh- words.
- You
Can't Spell the Word "Prefix" Without a Prefix- Starting with the
premise that word study is intriguing and fun and that word study and
spelling are combined skills, students learn in a cooperative setting
to identify, define, and construct words with prefixes.
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