Weekly Spelling Bee Activities

Friday, I talked 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 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 twenty problems in minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needs for that week’s spelling list.

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