50 Hands-On Spelling Activities {for Phonics and Sight Words}

Has your spelling practice become dry or boring? Well, brush off the dust and try some of these hands-on spelling activities!

Since readers need to have BOTH phonics and sight words understanding to become good readers, focusing on both phonics AND sight words during spelling instruction is a great way to help words “stick” in a child’s memory.

 

 

When words are taken out of the context of a book and their patterns, letters, and parts are studied, it forces readers to slow down and really take it all the word has to offer them. This, in turn, helps them become better readers. So today, I’d like to share 50 of my favorite hands-on spelling activities for phonics and sight words that I’ve included in the back of my ebook, Teaching Kids to Spell.

 

Did you know you can find 700+ pages of printable spelling activities and games in my ebook? Yes! That’s enough to cover an entire year of spelling fun!

 

50 Hands-on Spelling Activities

Most all of these activities can be adapted for either phonics OR sight words. You can also insert your child’s spelling list into the activity instead of using the specific words shown in the post.

1. Scoop & Spell {This Reading Mama}

2. Sidewalk Chalk Spelling Hop {Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational}

3. Stamp Your Words {Lessons Learnt Journal}

4. Go on a Word Treasure Hunt {Hands On: As we Grow}

5. Make a Spelling Word Search Puzzle {This Reading Mama}

6. Use a Spelling Dictionary {The Measured Mom}

7. Word Family Tic-Tac-Toe {Kids Activities Blog}

8. Dot Sticker Spelling {School Time Snippets}

9. Post-a-Word {This Reading Mama}

10. Make a Giant Crossword Puzzle {A Mom with a Lesson Plan}

11. Phonics Jumping Game {Learners in Bloom}

12. Play Word Rocket {Playdough to Plato}

13. Spell with Beads {Frugal Fun 4 Boys}

14. Spell with LEGO Letters {This Reading Mama}

15. Spell the Most Words Game {No Time for Flashcards}

16. Spinning Straw Spellers {Still Playing School}

17. Build Words with Rocks {Sugar Ants}

18. Glitter Spelling {Here Come the Girls}

19. Play Word Bump! {This Reading Mama}

20. Roll a Sight Word {I Can Teach My Child}

21. Making Words {Buggy and Buddy}

22. Paint your Words {Childhood 101}

23. Seek and Find Spelling Game {What Do We Do All Day?}

24. Rainbow Write Your Words {Nurture Store}

25. Words 3 Ways {Teach Mama}

26. Use Crayon Resist {This Reading Mama}

27. Spell with Pipe Cleaners {Make and Takes}

28. Spell with Your Fingers {Home School Innovation}

29. Use Word Sorts {This Reading Mama}

30. Spell with Cereal {A Mom with a Lesson Plan}

 

31. Car Track Delivery Spelling Game {Stay at Home Educator}

32. Make a Chalkboard Refrigerator Game {Enchanted Homeschooling Mom}

33. Visual Spelling Practice {Home Literacy Blueprint}

34. Make a Spelling Garage {123 Homeschool 4 Me}

35. Roll and Spell {Well-Nurtured Plants and Pillars}

36. Letter Lacing {Mama Miss}

37. Secret Spelling Code {Mrs. Gilchrist’s Class}

38. Spelling Hangman {Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas}

39. Waffle Words Spelling Game {The Homeschool Post}

40. Use a Board Game {Teach Beside Me}

41. Roll & Write Words {This Reading Mama}

42. Spell with a Word Family Dictionary {guest post on The Measured Mom}

43. Play a Word Stretching Game {The Pleasantest Thing}

44. Allow Invented Spelling {1+1+1=1}

45. Spelling Puzzles {No Time for Flash Cards}

46. Missing Letter Spelling Game {Imagination Soup}

47. Ride to Spell {This Reading Mama}

48. Spelling Battleship {Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational}

49. Clip a Word {Sugar Ants}

50. Bottle Cap Spelling {This Reading Mama}

 

 

More Spelling Activities and Resources:

 

 

Go digital with spelling! Read all about my educational apps or purchase them on iTunes or Google Play!

 

All About Spelling is a fantastic spelling program using the Orton-Gillingham methods. Hands-on work is a big part of All About Spelling!

 

Using Words Their Way to Teach Spelling

 

 

5 Things Struggling Spellers Need

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~Becky