Spotlight on Spelling






Especially for the Kids
Spelling City--Great for practicing weekly spelling words:
Spelling City
Look, Cover, Spell, Check: This activity will help improve your child's Spelling. Before spelling the words, listen to your child read the list to make sure s/he can read the words and knows what they mean. L-C-S-C is a strategy that can be used with paper and pencil as well. This site allows you to easily customize a list of words, making it a great place to practice the weekly spelling words. You can also practice spelling sight words and other high frequency & phonetic words on the site.
Look, Cover, Spell, Check
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Area to add your own words:
See 'N Spell
Spelling--Spin & Spell:
Spin & Spell
Spelling Rules & Songs for adding Suffixes:
Garden of Praise
Sign up and you're ready to go--requires a small fee, but has great reviews:
Spelling Time
| Good Luck on the test! |
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Parents & Teachers
100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English
Commonly Misspelled & Confused Words Gr. 1-3
90 Commonly Misspelled Words: Lower Grades
50 Commonly Mispelled Words: Middle & Upper Elementary
Spelling Correctly: Word Level 1-12
1000 Commonly Misspelled Words JH & HS
1000 Commonly Misspelled Words Upper Level
Spelling Q & A/Offers Great Ideas, Tips, and Practical Information:
Washington Post
Spelling Articles and Activities from Family Education:
Spelling at Family Education
Ed by Design/Excellent--Start Here:
Ed by Design
30 Ways to Practice Your Spelling Words
More Ways to Practice your Spelling
Research demonstrates that the strongest tie to learning spelling words in isolation is visualization. Having your child complete a guess and check method at home is MUCH more effective than having them write words repetitively or in a sentence. Also, helping your child practice words by their particular spelling patterns is beneficial. For example, if your child is learning to spell short a three letter words, there is no reason that s/he should not be able to spell all 3 letter short a words.
*Interestingly, spelling proficiency has no correlation with intelligence. The brain does not remember rules as well as patterns; our brain is a pattern seeking machine.
*Check out the pdf attachment below for a response to
How Can I Help my Child with Spelling?
The more they write, the better they spell.
The more they read, the better they spell.
"Be a good speller; see ya at the bee!"


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Play Bump with your whole family or all your friends! |
Here's a spelling game to get the family involved!
All you need is some Paper, Pencil & Small Bag
What You Do:
Cut paper into 30-40 cards.
With your child, write a word from her weekly spelling list on each card. Be sure to include review words. On 5-7 separate cards, write the word “BUMP”.
Place all cards in the brown paper bag and shake it to shuffle. Players should sit in a circle around a table or on the floor. The first player reaches into the bag (without peeking!) and pulls a card. The player reads the card, covers it and spells it out loud. If she spells it correctly, she keeps the card. If she spells it incorrectly, the card goes back in the bag. Pass the bag to the next player who repeats the process.
Once a player has one or more cards and then pulls a BUMP card, all of her cards (including the BUMP card) go back in the bag. If she doesn’t have any cards and pulls a BUMP card, she simply puts the BUMP card back in the bag.
Set a timer for 3-5 minutes. When time is up, the player with the most cards wins!
Note: Use variations of this game to practice math facts & vocabulary.









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