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Great Ideas for Practicing Your Spelling Words!
Here are some fun ways to practice spelling words. You may want to have your child concentrate on the words that he/she missed on their pretest.

Basic practice:

• Look at the word
• Say the word and each letter
• Close eyes and spell the word out loud
• Cover the word and write it from memory
• Check for correct spelling

Sort by:

• Beginning sound - either one sound or a blend, like "st". One sort would be all of the words that start with "b", or "s", or "st", or "bl"
• Ending pattern
• Number of letters in word
• Vowels (all words with a, e, i, o, or u)
• Find the words in a book (some, maybe not all)
• number of vowels; number of consonants
• Sticky Note Stick Up: Purchase some Super Sticky Notes by Post It. Choose 2 different colors and write all the consonant letters in one color and all the vowel letters in the other color. Stick them to a sliding
• glass door, window, or mirror. Have your child practice spelling their words using the sticky notes!

Other Ways to Practice:

• Ransom Note: Cut out letters of a magazine to spell out each spelling word.
• Pudding Tracer: Get a cookie tray with a raised edge and some pudding. Spread the pudding on the bottom of the cookie tray. Have your child spell out the words in the pudding. After each word, your child can lick his/her fingers. Think snack and study!!
• WARNING: Do Not Try this activity before bed, as your child may have difficulty falling asleep due to sugar content!
• Rainbow Writing: Using different colors, write each spelling word. You will have a "rainbow" of colors.
• Memory: Make two sets of words on cards and play Memory. Place mixed-up cards face down and take turns trying to get a match.
• Play Guess My Word. Draw blank spaces or boxes, one for each letter of a word. Guess letters and try to make the word in as few guesses as possible. Try with each word.
• Write Rainbow Words. Write spelling words with one crayon. Then, trace over each word several times, using a different color each time.
• Spell out loud: say them fast, say them slow, say them loud, say them quietly.
• Alphabetize the words. This is great practice for the benchmark assessments and the state test
• Write each word and circle the vowels (a, e, i, o, u).
• Write each word and circle the consonants.
• Find a synonym (similar word) for each word (if there is one).
• Find an antonym (opposite word) for each word (if there is one).
• Write words as “stairsteps”

s
sp
spe
spel
spell
spelli
spellin
spelling
It is fun to do on graph paper.

• Write a story using most of your words.
• Make a cartoon using the words.
• See how much money your spelling words are worth by using the alphabet below:

A-$0.01     B-$0.02     C-$0.03     D-$0.04     E-$0.05     F-$0.06     G-$0.07

H-$0.08     I-$0.09       J-$0.10     K-$0.11     L-$0.12     M-$0.13     N-$0.14

O-$0.15     P-$0.16     Q-$0.17     R-$0.18     S-$0.19    T-$0.20      U-$0.21

V-$0.22     W-$0.23     X-$0.24     Y-$0.25     Z-$0.26