5 creative ways to help your students improve their spelling

What is it about the power of words that we find so appealing? In January of , almost million people were signing in to play Wordle every day. This indicates not only our enjoyment of playing with words ourselves, but also our fascination with watching others do the same. In fact, in , more people tweeted about the Scripps National Spelling Bee than tweeted about Game of Thrones or The Bachelorette! Our students seem to love words and spelling just as much as we do, if not more.

Spell-a-thon!

Get your students jumpin’ for joy with this active spelling game. Print out and laminate colored paper with one letter of the alphabet on its own page. Choose all the letters that show up in your weekly spelling words, the vocabulary words in your current lesson, or any other words your class is currently learning. Spread them out in a circle with room for one person in the middle. Then, have students take turns standing in the center of the circle. When it’s their turn, they’ll pull a letter from a bag and read it aloud. If they get the spelling correct, they get to keep the letter.

Enroll your school in the Scripps National Spelling Bee today! The Scripps National Spelling Bee website makes it easy to enroll, with instructions on the Enroll Today page. Your students will love trying to land on the right letters to spell words correctly. A small bee in your classroom can be tons of fun, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee has great resources ready to help you out.

Hello, and welcome to our spelling program. Our team has put together a great video to walk you through everything you need to get started. We’ve also included some fun and easy spelling games to help you learn. Thanks for choosing us, and we hope you enjoy the program.

Use Wordle for a quick and easy spelling game. The Scripps National Spelling Bee website provides resources to help students prepare for the bee. The site has videos and PDF files to help you choose whether your bee will be classroom-only or school-wide, and instructions for holding your bee in-person or online.

Teachers who sign up for the Scripps Spelling Bee program will have access to all of the materials and resources necessary to support literacy instruction, regardless of whether or not a class participates in an actual spelling bee event. This includes word lists, competition lists, step-by-step instructions on how to hold small bees in your own classroom or school-wide bees, and more.

To get started, begin building excitement with your students. This is the fun part! While the competition itself will speak to some of our students, there are plenty of ways to get all your students excited about your upcoming spelling bee. For some, nothing is more exciting than the prospect of prizes.

Learninng Outcome

You can use Wordle to create a quick and easy spelling game for your students. Simply enter a list of words, and Wordle will create a word cloud that you can use to test your students’ spelling skills. The Scripps National Spelling Bee website provides resources to help students prepare for the bee, including videos and PDF files to help you choose whether your bee will be classroom-only or school-wide, and instructions for holding your bee in-person or online.