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Free Spelling Activities

I’m sharing 12 FREE, NO PREP, printable and digital Spelling Activities for Kindergarten, first and second grade students! These activities provide meaningful and engaging spelling practice and are perfect for any word work literacy center. I also offer details about my Year-Long Weekly Word Study Resource that offers weekly word lists, practice activities, parent letters, assessments and MORE for k-3!

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I’m curious…. in your already crowded instruction schedule, does word study have a place?  Have you found a way to make spelling instructiion more than just giving a list of words on Monday and assessing on Friday?  Resources for teaching spelling can be hard to come by. Sometimes it feels like with the intense focus on more critical thinking skills in literacy, explicit spelling instruction (or word study) has become an outdated practice.  

But I think we can all agree we all want our students to be strong spellers!  Spelling is important!  It is related to reading.  If students can spell well, they will read well.   It’s related to writing.  When students spell well they can focus on communicating their ideas, rather than worrying about how to construct words. 

If you are looking for a word study program to use with your students, or maybe just looking to freshen up your spelling activities then you have come to the right place.  Today I’m excited to describe to you the Year-Long Weekly Word Study bundles I have created for kindergarten, first, second and third grade, as well as share my FREE, NO PREP Spelling Activities!  

Free Spelling Activities 

You’ve got a lot on your plate, so to help lighten your load I created this resource that includes 12 different EDITABLE spelling printables!  It is totally free and provides meaningful practice and the repetition students need for mastery of the spelling words and phonics patterns you teach.  With many activities to choose from, spelling practice will always feel fresh and engaging for students.  

To save you time, I created these Spelling Activities as an editable “autofill” document.  This means the ONLY thing you have to do is insert your spelling words (up to 12) into the spelling activities word list.  That’s it!!  Once you type your words into the word list, you simply print the pages you want to use.

Any of these activities make a great addition to your weekly word work routine.  Simply pair the spelling word cards with a pocket chart and print a few activities for an instant literacy center!  They also make great morning work or homework practice.  

The FREE resource includes ALL of the following activities: 

💗 Trace and Write Spelling

💗 ABC Order

💗 ipad Spelling

💗 Vowel Consonant Spelling

💗 Sign Language Spelling

💗 Rainbow Spelling *note this has been updated to include Rainbow Sound Spelling

💗 Triangle Spelling

💗 Spelling Illustrations

💗 Make a Word Search

💗 Spelling Word Shapes

💗 Roll-a-Color Spelling

💗 Spell and Move

Here are a few of our favorites!

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A Year-Long Weekly Word Study Resource for K-3

So while the activity pages I’ve shared above could be used in a variety of ways, I know there are teachers who are looking for more.  They want an actual program that explicitly teaches students different spelling patterns each week and offers them meaningful practice so students can master those patterns. That’s why I created Year-Long Weekly Word Study Resources for Kindergarten, first, second and third grade students.

Word study units are different from traditional spelling units.  Instead of giving students a list of words to memorize each week, word study units focus on a specific phonics skill.  Students are given explicit instruction on the phonics pattern.  They engage in activities throughout the week that allow them to practice the phonics skill and investigate and discover the patterns in words.  

Word study offers students opportunities to investigate and discover the patterns in words. When students have knowledge of these patterns they don’t learn to spell just one word at a time.  They can generalize and apply their new learning to their reading and their writing.  

My Weekly Word Study Units have EVERYTHING you need to provide your students with effective word study instruction and spelling practice all year long!

I have different units for kindergarten , first , second , AND third-grade students. While the units vary a bit from grade to grade, they all contain these core components:

💕 A Scope and Sequence

We know that for instruction to be most effective, it must be systematic and follow a scope and sequence . The scope and sequences included in these resources are based on my learning including Wiley Blevins’ book,  A Fresh Look at Phonics *,  The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools, and  Speech to Print  and are specific for each grade.

💕 Word cards

These word cards can be printed out on card stock and used in centers, small groups, or for your whole group instruction.

💕 3 Editable Practice Printables for Each Unit

We know that in order for students to master the skills we teach they need a lot of practice.  For every unit, you’ll get 3 editable practice printables. The activities vary slightly depending on grade and the skill that is being taught.

💕 Editable Assessments

While the assessments vary a bit from grade to grade, they all include:

– Word Dictation:  words that follow the week’s phonics skills and bonus spaces for review or high-frequency words.

– Sentence Dictation:  a sentence that includes target phonics skill words, previously taught phonics skill words and high-frequency words.

– Spelling Error Analysis:  a sentence that includes target phonics skill words, previously taught phonics skill words and high-frequency words. Students must correct the mistakes and rewrite the corrected sentences.

💕 A Teacher Assessment Guide and Master Word List

You’ll get an answer key for each unit to make it extra easy for you to quickly check those assessments!

💕  A Family Letter for Each Unit

We know that word study looks a little different than traditional spelling that families may be accustomed to. This letter will help families understand the shift, inform them of the focus for the unit, and offer them ways to support their children at home.

Curious to learn more about Word Study and these resources? Take a look here for more details!

I hope the information and free resources I’ve shared here today will help to bring more effective word study and spelling practice into your classroom!

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Our kindergarten spelling words are broken down into a scope and sequence across 36 weeks to take you from the beginning of school through the whole school year! As you can see by the curriculum sheet, we start off the program with beginning sounds (week 1-3), then move on to onset/rhyme words (weeks 4-9), CVC short vowel words (weeks 10-18), consonant digraphs (weeks 19-24), ending CK words (weeks 25-27), and CVCe words (weeks 28-36). In addition, we include bonus words and more than 100 Dolch sight words like “like”, “will”, “away”, “one” and “off”. You’ll find each of the kindergarten spelling words lists below in individual, printable PDFs. Before you get started be sure to download the printable scope and sequence sheet .

What is the Spelling Curriculum? This spelling curriculum provides weekly lists of words, which progress according to phonics skills which are developmentally appropriate for students to learn, as well as bonus words to provide extensions for students who require a bit more of a challenge.

How can this curriculum help students learn to read and write? This curriculum follows methods which have been proven to help learners progress in their reading and writing skills at this grade level. In third grade, students should be familiar with many of the patterns taught in these lists, therefore those skills will become the building blocks for reading and decoding larger words, and making meanings from those words.

What research supports this curriculum? This curriculum uses a research based, systematic approach to phonics instruction. Phonics skills taught build on each other, and skills previously taught are incorporated in later word lists to activate learner’s schemata and build connections between new information and information previously learned.

First 9 Weeks (1-9) Printable Word Lists

Week 1 of spelling words includes beginning sounds, such as: apple, gum, elephant, jump, and igloo. Also included: bonus words and sight words.

Week 2 of spelling words focuses on beginning sounds, including: kid, lion, queen, and park. Bonus words and sight words are also included!

Week 3 spelling words focus on beginning sounds, such as: up, whip, yak, and watch. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 4 of spelling words focus on Onset/Rime (-at) words, like: mat, hat, chat, and that. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 5 of spelling words focus on Onset/Rime (-it) words, such as: sit, wit, pit, and fit. Bonus words and sight words are also included!

Week 6 spelling words include Onset/Rime (-ot) words, such as: bot, pot, not, and dot. Sight words and bonus words are also included.

Week 7 spelling words include Onset/Rime (-ap) words, like: nap, zap, map, and gap. Bonus words and sight words included.

Week 8 spelling words include Onset/Rime (-ip) words, like: lip, ship, nip, and whip. Bonus words and sight words included.

Week 9 spelling words include Onset/Rime (-op) words, such as: bop, shop, pop, and top. Sight words and bonus words are also included!

Second Nine Weeks (10-18) Printable Word Lists

Week 10 spelling words focus on short A CVC words, such as: fab, sat, lab, and dad. Bonus words and sight words are included.

Week 11 spelling words focus on the short vowel I sounds in CVC words, such as: fit, hit, pit, and pin. Sight words and bonus words are also included!

Week 12 spelling words focus on short A/I vowel sounds in CVC words, such as: map, yip, lap, and kit. Sight words and bonus words are also included.

Week 13 spelling words focus on the short O vowel sound in words, such as: dog, hot, log, and bot. Bonus words and sight words are included as well.

Week 14 spelling words focus on the short U vowel sound in CVC words, such as: mud, sun, cut, and run. Sight words and bonus words are also included.

Week 15 spelling words focus on short U/O vowel sounds in CVC words, such as: rut, pup, pot, and cop. Bonus words and sight words also included!

Week 16 spelling words focus on the short E vowel sound in CVC words, such as: bed, set, led, and pet. Bonus words and sight words also included!

Week 17 spelling words focus on short vowel sounds in CVC words, such as: pup, wet, bop, and peg. Sight words and bonus words are also included.

Week 18 spelling words focus on short vowel sounds in CVC words, such as: vat, jug, gap, and him. Bonus words and sight words are also included!

Third Nine Weeks (19-27) Printable Word Lists

Week 19 spelling words focus on CH digraph words, such as chap, chat, chop, and chin. Bonus words and sight words are also included!

Week 20 spelling words focus on SH digraph words, such as: shut, lash, rush, and shin. Bonus words and sight words also included.

Week 21 spelling words focus on the SH/CH digraph words, such as: chin, rush, chip, and ship. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 22 spelling words focus on TH digraph words, such as: path, that, thin, and with. Bonus words and sight words are included.

Week 23 focuses on WH digraph words, such as: whir, whip, when, and why. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 24 focuses on consonant digraph words, such as: chin, sham, thin, and whip. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 25 spelling words focus on CK digraph words, such as: wick, chick, quick, and thick. Bonus words and sight words are included.

Week 26 focuses on CK digraph words, such as: back, lack, tack, and quack. Sight words and bonus words included.

Week 27 focuses on CK digraph words, such as: neck, deck, tuck, and check. Bonus words and sight words are also included!

Fourth Nine Weeks (28-36) Printable Word Lists

Week 28 spelling words focus on the long A vowel sound in CVCe words, such as: make, wade, shade, and date. Bonus words and sight words also included.

Week 29 words focus on long I vowel sounds in CVCe words, such as: wide, mine, pile, and dime. Sight words and bonus words also included.

Week 30 focuses on the long A/I vowel sound in CVCe words, such as: lane, line, pine, and fame. Sight words and bonus words also included.

Week 31 spelling words focus on long O CVCe words, such as: mode, vote, lone, and rose. Bonus words and sight words also included.

Week 32 spelling words focus on the long U vowel sound in CVCe words, such as: fume, dune, cube, and tune. Bonus and sight words also included.

Week 33 focuses on the long U/I vowel sound in CVCe words, such as: rune, rise, fire, and cure. Bonus words and sight words also included.

Week 34 focuses on long vowel sounds in CVCe words, such as shape, whine, whale, and here. Bonus words and sight words also included.

Week 35 focuses on long vowel sounds in CVCe words, such as: shine, rope, shape, and wise. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

Week 36 spelling words focus on the long vowel sound in CVCe words, such as: shone, cove, cape, and chute. Bonus words and sight words are also included.

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How to Help Kindergarten Kids with Spelling Words Practice through Crazy Fun Games

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Let’s make spelling words practice fun for kindergarten kids with some crazy fun games and a few common ideas too!

A friend recently told me that she doesn’t know ways to practice spelling words at home with her kids.

I didn’t have any tips for her right off hand except to make it fun.

So it got me thinking about different ways we’ve practiced spelling words, or done any kind of homework for that matter.

For the most part, my kids don’t have homework.

Their homework each week has been to practice sight words or spelling words and read.

That’s pretty much it!

They’ve never brought worksheets home that they have to do (yay!).

I’ve talked about common core in the past , and using Be A Learning Hero to find out what your child needs to know each year in school. These standards are set in place to help students be better prepared down the road.

Henry has always been a fast learner, so learning his spelling words has never really been an issue for us.

But we still practice the kindergarten spelling words throughout the week with little games and activities.

Every Monday he gets a list of words to learn and on Friday he has a spelling test.

And lately, the list of words is around a concept (like short a, or Long a CVCe), and then he gets two bonus words on the test to see if he grasps the concept.

Most weeks, I take it pretty easy in practice and this is what we do…

5 Obvious Ways to Practice Spelling Words:

• Make a number code. Number the words on the spelling list and then write a list all mixed up to find and write the word.  You can save a copy of this doc that I use for each spelling list. 
• Write spelling words but leave out letters and put a blank instead for him to figure out what letter it should be (based off his list).
• Make a scrambled spelling words game and have your kindergarten child put them in the right order.
• Ask to spell random words off the spelling list (and others that are similar in concept) throughout the day.
• Use worksheets sometimes. I have found several places online that you can change out the spelling list week after week for their worksheets. These are my faves: make your own printable word shapes worksheets , word scrambler and word search maker .

Now… there have been times when we need to work on a spelling word more and that’s when we try to make it more fun with kindergarten games!

That’s where hands on learning and activities comes into play!

16 Crazy Fun Games to Practice Spelling Words for Kindergarten

Go on a treasure hunt.

Draw a treasure map, or use your house plans, to hide letters of spelling words to find using the map. See how we did it with sight words. What child doesn’t love a good treasure hunt game to help make learning fun!

Kindergarten Spelling Hangman Game

Play a game of hangman to practice spelling words! If you don’t know how to play, check out School Time Snippets

Sensory Shaving Cream Writing

Squirt some shaving cream on a tray and just write the spelling words to practice! Super simple, educational and a little messy too.

Spelling Words Letter Egg Hunt

Hide letters of the spelling words in plastic eggs around the house. Find each letter to put together the spelling words!

Spelling Bean Bag Toss Game for Kindergarten

Put together your ABC Mat on the floor and use bean bags to toss onto each of the letters to practice spelling words.

Spelling Bracelets with Letter Beads

Use letter beads to make a bracelet, spelling their words as they make it! Take them apart and do it again or save them for a little vocabulary accessory!

Spelling Words Practice with Typing

Just use your computer! Open a word doc and have them type the spelling words over and over again! See how we did it to learn to spell their names. Bonus, your child is getting a little typing education too!

Clip & Match Spelling Words Fine Motor Game

Write a spelling word on a craft stick and then each letter on a clothespin to make the word! Check out this clip and spell from How Wee Learn!

Triple Trace It!

Trace and repeat kindergarten spelling words with this fun game! Write the spelling word on paper, trace it with a highlighter and then trace it with glue and again with yarn! Repetition is great! See how we did this triple tracing with names .

Spelling Game with Nuts & Bolts for Kindergarten Homework

Write the letters of the spelling words on nuts and have them tighten them onto bolts to spell the words correctly! This one’s from No Time for Flash Cards. (shown in collage above)

Spelling with Bent Q-Tips

Bend Q-Tips into 3 shapes ( find out how here ) to make any letter of the alphabet! Spell words! This one is a great interactive option for any ABC activity!

Make Sensory Cards for Spelling

You can make sensory spelling word cards with some glue and salt. A Mom with a Lesson Plan then as three ways you can help your kids practice spelling with them!

Spell with Cooked Spaghetti

Write their spelling words with cooked spaghetti ! This one will definitely make education a fun time! Another one from A Mom with a Lesson Plan!

Make Spelling Words Chains

Make a paper chain with letters to spell words! (Add Velcro to make it reusable too!)

Practice Spelling with Fun Sensory Bags

Write your spelling words on a sensory bag with a Q-tip! From Scribble Doodle and Draw. This one is for for any phonics practice you need to work on!

Make a Scribble Game for Kindergarten Spelling Words

Scribble and spell! See how many times you can write your spelling words in a section of a scribble!

Even more free places to find games and other fun ways to practice spelling words perfect for Kindergarten:

• 75 Fun Ways to Practice and Learn Spelling Words from Mom to 2 Posh Li’l Divas
• 50 Hands-On Spelling Activities from This Reading Mama
• 35 Fun Ways to Learn Spelling Words from Childhood 101.
• Ways to make Spelling Fun and 25 Spelling Activities from A Mom with a Lesson Plan
• Many of the name writing activities can be used to write spelling words too! It’s great to physically write the word to learn it.

What are some of your favourite games to play when working on spelling with your kindergarten child at home?

Share your ideas with us in the comments! We would love to hear them!

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For some kids, spelling comes naturally. For others, spelling is an extremely difficult task that is avoided at all costs. It doesn’t have to be that way. These 10 simple activities to practice spelling at home will help your child become a better speller in addition to building their confidence!

*Guest post by Sarah from  Stay at Home Educator

10 Activities for Spelling Practice at Home

Remember the days when you were a kid and you would have a spelling list to memorize each week? Maybe you practiced those words by spelling them out loud to a parent, or maybe you wrote each word ten times.

That’s how we used to practice spelling, but those days are gone. Educators are now using more systematic and authentic methods of spelling practice, and parents are looking for better ways to help their child with spelling at home. You still probably get a spelling list to practice each week, but rote memorization is never effective.

Here are ten simple, yet truly awesome activities, for doing spelling practice at home:

• Spelling Memory – Write two sets of spelling words on small index cards and play a game of memory. When a card is turned over, read the word, spell it, and read it again.
• Spelling Swat – Using the same set of flashcards from the activity above. Lay out one set on the table or floor so the words can be seen. Use the other set as a draw pile. Draw a card. Read the word, spell it, then find the matching word on the table. Slap the matching word on the table. Read the word, spell it, then read it again.
• Wordo – This is an old game that is played just like Bingo, but with full words instead of letters and numbers. Again, if the word is on the Wordo card, read it, spell it, and read it again.
• Rainbow Writing – Spell each word multiple times using a different color of the rainbow each time.
• Around the Room Spelling Hunt – Using the two sets of flashcards from the first activity, place one set of spelling flashcards around the room and keep the other set for a draw pile. Draw a spelling flashcard, read it, and spell it. Read it again, then search for the matching word in the room.
• Stamp It Out – Rather than writing out spelling words multiple times, use alphabet stamps instead. (Or letter manipulatives work well, too.) The key here is to practice one word several times in a row.
• Spell by Syllables – For longer words, practice spelling by spelling by syllables. For example, the word elephant would be broken down into el-e-phant, spelling just one syllable at a time.
• Spelling Word Sorts – This is an excellent activity for spelling lists where all the words focus on a single spelling sound, but different spellings. Sort the words according to how that focus sound is spelled. For example, if the sound is long a spelled -eigh and -ai, then the words sleigh and weight would be put into a different group from snail and aim.
• Word Scramble – This is an oldie, but still an effective way to practice spelling. Use letter manipulatives to spell a word from the spelling list, copying it if need be. Then, scramble the letters up and try to re-spell the word without looking at the spelling list for help.
• Sensory Words – Use a sensory material to write out spelling words. Shaving cream, salt, play dough , and cookie sprinkles are all super fun.

Additional Tips for Spelling Practice at Home

Of course, spelling practice should always be supervised. This will ensure that your child is getting the most out of an activity as well as practicing the word correctly! Set aside some time every evening to do a quick spelling practice. Even if it’s just ten minutes.

If your child is overwhelmed by the number of words to practice, then break the list into chunks and practice only a few at a time. And always keep some easier words to mix with the difficult words. You don’t want your child to feel defeated and lose confidence by making the list too difficult during spelling practice.

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Our entire collection of kindergarten worksheets have been made into a free web app powered by HTML5. HTML5 does not require the Flash plug-in that most educational websites use to provide interactive content. This means that our kindergarten worksheets will work almost anywhere. Kindergartners can now complete the educational worksheets on the iPad and other forward-thinking devices. The free kindergarten web app we have developed makes use of the iPad's multi-touch feature. Kids can use their fingers to draw, write, and solve problems directly on the free kindergarten worksheets. Teachers and parents can then print the completed kindergarten worksheet. Our free online kindergarten app also works on desktop and laptop computers running modern web browsers like Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 9+.

The Importance of a Good Early Childhood Education

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, having the firm foundation of early childhood education will ensure children's success in life. It is also imperative that students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills during their first year in school as well as establish an appreciation of who they are in a social society. Teachers are able to implement these worksheets in a variety of early childhood lesson plans. Even though our "kindergarten worksheets" are designed for kindergarten students, they are also useful for children that are in preschool or first grade. These diverse kindergarten worksheets will create a fun learning environment that ultimately assist in cultivating valuable critical thinking, cultural, and linguistic skills.

Kindergarten Worksheets to Print, Download, and Use Online

Our fun kindergarten worksheets are broken down into four main areas. They are math, English, general learning, and holiday worksheets. These categories are then divided into different subjects so that parents and teachers can easily find the free printable kindergarten worksheets they are looking for. The kindergarten math worksheets section includes addition, subtraction, counting, fractions, place value, graphs, measurements, pattern words, and numbers. The Kindergarten English worksheets section offers reading, alphabet, writing, phonics, vocabulary, sight words, opposites, rhyming words, and spelling. The general learning section provides science, Spanish, social studies, dinosaurs, health, zoo, foreign languages, butterflies, and kindergarten coloring activities. The last section is our kindergarten holiday worksheets. This includes Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. We also offer summer, winter, spring, and fall printable worksheets. All of the kindergarten worksheets on our website can be printed out, downloaded for later use, or used directly online. Anyway you choose to use our free kindergarten worksheets, we hope they help enhance the students' appreciation for education.

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• Kindergarten Holiday Worksheets
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 Spelling Homework Ideas

Need some ideas for spelling homework? Check out the gigantic list below of great ideas! You'll find the first 20 ideas here, and the remaining ones here . Each idea can be used with any list of weekly spelling words. Choose the ones that work best for your grade level. Vary the activities frequently.

Note: You might also want to consider our new  AnyWord Spelling Practice eBooks . They are full of ideas for lots of spelling practice with any spelling words. The 3 eBooks provide practice with creative writing, word play, and partner games.  Check them out !

Printable List of Spelling Homework Ideas

2. Type your spelling words 10 times, using a different font each time.

7. Find each word in the dictionary. Copy a definition for each one.

10. Find each word in the dictionary. Write the page number on which it appears and the guide words at the top of the page.

14. Scramble each spelling word. Have a family member unscramble the words and sign your paper.

17. Make a word search puzzle in which you hide all of your spelling words. Give it to a family member to solve and sign.

18. For a different type of word search, draw a Boggle-type game board. Make sure it contains at least 5 of your spelling words. See if a family member can find the spelling words.

Find our next 20 ideas here .

Ideas for using our list:

At the beginning of the week , give students a written list of 5 of these  ideas. Ask them to complete them in any order throughout the week.

For more spelling homework ideas:

Need more ideas? See this list of 20 more homework ideas and/or our AnyWord Spelling Practice eBooks . 

For additional spelling practice, try our spelling worksheets and spelling word games . 

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Home Spelling Words - Spelling Games, Worksheets, Tests & Lists

Spelling lists, games, tests & practice.

Home Spelling Words is the leading spelling website for high-quality spelling words and lists for Kindergarten through 9th grade. You can also use your lists from school or your curriculum to make online spelling tests with your own words.

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Online Spelling Games for Kids

HOPPER SPELLING GAME

Spelling Hopper is a fast-paced spelling game that students really enjoy! Spell words from your list at clearings.

SKY SPELLING GAME

Sky Spelling is a fun educational game where students fly their airplane through obstacles while practicing their spelling list.

GOLF SPELLING GAME

Spelling Golf is a fun educational game where students play a 2d mini golf game while practicing their spelling list.

JUMP JUMP SPELLING GAME

Spell words from your list as you jump up the screen. Students enjoy multiple levels that keep them engaged.

RACING STARS SPELLING GAME

Racing Stars is a fun educational game where students race the computer while practicing their spelling list.

BINK BONK SPELLING GAME

Bink Bonk is a fun educational game where students hit the purple block to spell each word on their spelling list.

CRAZY FISH SPELLING GAME

Test your spelling skills by helping Crazy Fish eat the surfboards with the correctly spelled words. Perfect game for sight words.

KING CACTUS HANGMAN GAME

King Cactus is a hangman spelling game that allows your student to guess letters until they can fill in the puzzle with a word from their list.

ONLINE WORD SEARCH

Our spelling Word Search game is populated with our spelling lists or yours. It is a dynamic game that changes every time you play and has easy, medium, and hard levels.

MEMORY GAME

We take a fun classic game like memory and use it to help your students learn to spell. Each time the card is flipped over, the program says the word aloud.

Navigate the mouse through each maze while eating cheese to spell words from your weekly spelling lists. Mouse Maze is an interactive spelling game.

WORD SCRAMBLE

Our interactive word scramble makes spelling fun. Students unscramble each word on their spelling list to win (get the chicken to the barn).

WORD CHOPPER

Use Word Chopper to practice your spelling list before test day. As students get their spelling words right, they are taken out of their queue.

FILL IN THE BLANK

Our Fill in the Blank Game provides students with a different way of looking at each word. Students provide the missing letters to win.

SPELLING SOUP

Spelling Soup is a relaxing way to catch the correctly spelled words in a soup bowl. The game can be played on easy, medium, or hard levels for an extra challenge.

Use Our K-9th Grade Spelling Lists

Import our Kindergarten through 9th grade spelling lists into your account to practice, play games and take tests as much as you like. Our lists were developed to help students of all levels. You can also make your own lists to supplement ours. In addition to that, if you finish one grade, import more! We offer your student a self paced learning environment.

Practice, Play Games & Take Online Spelling Tests With Your Own Words

Make spelling lists with your own words and take tests online. Your student can also play games and practice their spelling words all week. This will help your student improve his or her spelling test scores. When your student is ready, they can take a pre-test or a spelling test which will be instantly graded and stored in a handy report. Home Spelling Words is the best spelling website for parents with children in public or private school and for homeschool spelling.

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Homeschoolers love Home Spelling Words. Parents have complete control over the spelling words and sentences that they create. Students love the games and find learning easy with online games and offline worksheets. The family friendly price is a big plus, too.

Practice Spelling and Improve Spelling Test Grades

Every parent wants their child to get good grades. Practicing spelling lists online gives kids a chance to focus and learn to spell quickly and easily. Students are able to hear and see each word on their list and are given instant feedback by our program. The practice section is particularly useful for students who find spelling difficult. The games give students a chance to play games while learning.

Online Spelling Tests

One of the most useful features of Home Spelling Words is the online spelling test. Use our spelling lists or make your own spelling lists using your own curriculum. Once the lists are published, students can practice as well as take their spelling tests online. Students can retake tests as often as they like. Each time a test is taken, it is graded and the scores are saved in a report. Login or create an account to take online spelling tests and have your scores saved.

Use our Spelling Lists

Take advantage of our K through 9th grade spelling lists. Our spelling lists were created with the help of teachers who have provided a range of words to challenge every student. Practice sentences are included in our lists to help students learn new vocabulary as well. Parents and homeschoolers can print and use our spelling lists for personal use or they can create an account to practice, take tests and play games online . We are a no spam compliant spelling website and we do not sell or share personal information with anyone.

Interactive Spelling Games for Kids

We have the best spelling games on the Internet! Each game is dynamic in that they change every time you play them. We have a Fill-in-the-Blank Game, a Word Search Game, Spelling Soup Game, Word Chopper which helps you whittle away at your spelling list, Crazy Fish where you have to select from the correctly spelled word, a classic Memory Game and many more. All of these online spelling games for kids are designed to allow students to have fun while they are learning. Login or sign up to access this feature.

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We've got 5 great spelling activities that will help your student become a better speller without struggling. Does your student have a learning disability? Often time, playing games can help students improve because they are able to experience their spelling words in a variety of ways instead of just one way like memorization. Gamification will be a big part of future learning programs. If your student needs spelling help then Home Spelling Words is the perfect fit. Whether you are a homeschool parent or your student is in a public or private school, using our spelling website will help your student grow and improve.

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Spelling Worksheets – 1st – 5th Grade Curriculum

K12Reader offers parents and teachers free spelling words curriculum for 1st through 5th grade. This teacher-developed curriculum can help students develop strong spelling and word recognition skills, and reinforces strong reading development. A comprehensive spelling program extends past the simple memorization of the letters that make up the individual words. Weekly word lists given for the purpose of improving each student’s spelling also provide an ideal opportunity to ensure that all students are being exposed to words that will reinforce their overall success in literacy. The 1st – 5th grade program includes:

• All 1,000 FRY sight words and Dolch sight words
• Grade level appropriate patterns for words, focusing on word families, prefixes/suffixes, and word roots/origins.
• A selection of academic vocabulary based on the science, social studies, mathematics, and language arts curriculum/standards for each specific grade level.
• Dictation sentences to remind students that the spelling words do not occur in isolation.

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