Spelling Games are a great way to teach phonics, phonemic awareness, and more.
Play any game that is normally played with dice with the child — Monopoly, for example. The parent can continue to move her token forward in the normal way by throwing the dice, but the child must orally spell a word to move forward.
To select words that can be used, the parent can use words from the child’s schoolwork that he often misspells. She must make word cards of these words. It is best to use not fewer than 20 words and not more than 30. When playing a board game, the same 20-30 words can be used, or if the child already knows how to spell them, other words can be selected. The parent must thoroughly shuffle the word cards and then put them in a pile upside down on the table between the two (or more) players.
When it is the child’s turn to play, the parent must take a word from the top of the pile and then say the word aloud. The child must spell the word. If the child spells the word correctly, he may move his token the same number of spaces as there are letters in the word. For example, for a word of seven letters, he may move his token forward seven spaces. The word card is then put aside.
If, however, he misspells the word, the parent must show the word to the child, and the child must spell the word aloud three times while looking at the word, and then three times without looking at it. Then the word is put at the bottom of the pile so that it will come up again later. If the child misspells a word, he may also not move his token for that turn.
Spelling Games for Learning at School or Home
1. Plugo Letters by PlayShifu – Word Building with Phonics
Learn to spell new words with phonics and improve your vocabulary and word usage in sentences. Packed with stories, characters, poems, and puzzles to make learning super fun! Grow your vocabulary from 3 to 8-letter words as you play! Plugo app has 5 interactive games and 250+ levels that make learning super fun. *The box doesn’t come with a tablet/smartphone.
2. JoyNote Classroom Magnetic Letters Kit
With this giant magnetic letters kit it’s easy for your kids to participate in alphabet skills, you can use it on our magnetic board or any metal surface. The kit contains a total of 234 magnetic letters. All are in a compartmentalized storage box with handy labels for easy organization. Color-coded vowels and consonants also make word building a breeze. While the letter sizes range from 3 to 4.5cm.
3. Bananagrams My First Multi-Award Winning Kids Spelling Game
My First BANANAGRAMS uses lowercase letters and combo-letter tiles to help nurture your child’s love for wordplay and word games. With multiple activities and mini-games, they’ll enjoy a play progression toward our original BANANAGRAMS experience!
4. Boggle Junior, Preschool Game
Your preschooler’s first Boggle game! With Boggle Jr. your preschooler can transform letters into words with this beginning-level word game for kids. Two different matching games encourage various skills and levels with cute, colorful pictures. Very young players can enjoy playing with the letter cubes as toys and finding all the letters of the alphabet on them. They can also play with the cards just to see the colorful pictures. All this play is a learning experience! Your child can practice object and word recognition, letter recognition and matching, spelling, sorting, and grouping, and even practice taking turns. Hasbro Gaming and all related terms are trademarks of Hasbro.
5. Educational Toys for 3-8 Year Olds Girls Boys
Preschool games for ages 3-8 have 28 double-sided word cards and 52 colorful lowercase letters to develop children’s brains, exercise left and right brains, strengthen the recognition of 26 lowercase letters, and learn through games and interesting illustrations to cultivate children’s interest in learning.
6. BOHS Literacy Wiz Fun Game
Including letter recognition, spelling, word building, and early vocabulary. By putting the cubes together to form a word, the kid gains an important understanding of the mechanics of vocabulary, aided by the picture cards which provide a clue to the meaning of the word being formed.
7. Basic Fun Speak & Spell Electronic Game
Speak & Spell is back and it’s just like you remember! One of the earliest computerized learning Systems from the 70S and 80S, speak & spell was the first educational toy designed to help children learn to spell over 200 commonly misspelled words using a speech synthesizer. Now, a whole new generation can enjoy this classic toy with friends and family for years to come. With multiple play modes and challenge levels, kids will have fun and learn at the same time! For ages 7 & up. Includes 3 AA batteries.
8. Scrabble Junior Game
Introducing kids’ first Scrabble game. Parents have always loved getting kids into the Scrabble game as early as possible, given the educational value and fun of word games. This Scrabble Junior game is easy for kids to play, and lots of fun. One side of the board has you match letters to form words. The other side has you building your own words.
