Flash Cards Spelling Activities

Tuesday, I met with a parent who is having difficulty helping her child with spelling. The problem is the child needs extra practice with his weekly spelling words. There are many useful approaches to spelling instruction. Some involve learning rules: i before e except after c. Children can learn spelling indirectly by writing and reading. Much of spelling is learned by rote memorization. Most spelling programs organize weekly spelling words into logical groupings: short a sounds, oo words, and so forth. The parent uses FlinkMake to create an interactive activity on the computer providing her child extensive practice with his weekly spelling words. It takes only minutes to enter the twenty words and definitions.


The interactive activity is visually appealing and engaging. The activity teaches spelling through misspellings. On one side of the “card,” the child sees the word spelled correctly; on the other, the misspelled word appears. The child “flips” the cards until he finds the correctly-spelled word and selects it. The activity provides immediate feedback without the judgment children often associate with their parents’ feedback. The parent can make twenty problems in minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needs for that week’s spelling list.

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