Consonants Spelling Activities

Last week, I was talking with a parent who was having difficulty helping her child with spelling. The problem was the child needed extra practice with his weekly spelling words. Initially, spelling involves learning the alphabet and associating letters of the alphabet with words. Spelling at this age usually involves matching the initial sounds of words to specific letters. Her child understood the concept and could do the matching, but needed a lot of practice and creating printed worksheets was extremely time-consuming and the resulting worksheets were not especially appealing to the child. Instead of the printed worksheets, the parent used FlinkMake to create an interactive worksheet on the computer. It took only minutes because all the graphics were built in.


The interactive worksheet was much more fun and engaging than the printed worksheets, with an appealing character prodding the child on. The child saw a number of objects and had to select the one that began with the letter shown in the screen. He could select a picture and hear the word spoken. The parent could make tens of problems in minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needed for that letter.

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