Spelling Words Activities

Friday, I talked with a parent who is having difficulty helping her child spell words that are in the books the child is reading. The problem is the child needs extra practice with spelling as part of his reading. There are many useful approaches to spelling instruction. Some involve learning rules: i before e except after c. Much of spelling is learned by rote memorization. Children can learn spelling indirectly by writing and reading. She has her child reading lots of books but needs to periodically concentrate on helping him spell the words in the books. The parent uses FlinkMake to create an interactive activity on the computer providing her child extensive practice with spelling words he reads. It takes only minutes to enter the ten or twenty words and their definitions.


The interactive activity is graphical and engaging, with an appealing Flinkster character. The activity has children spell words they hear. The child hears a word and sees the same number of boxes on the screen as there are letters in the word. The activity provides immediate feedback without the judgment children often associate with their parents’ feedback. The parent can make ten or twenty problems in minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needs for that book’s spelling words.

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