K5 Learning
Liza's First Spelling Bee
Learners read about Liza's first spelling bee before answering six reading comprehension questions. Skills include identifying similarities, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and answer questions based on explicit information in...
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Improve Your Spelling with the Visual Thesaurus
Using Visual Thesaurus software, class members participate in a computer-based spelling bee. Then they work in groups to analyze the words and use deductive reasoning to infer spelling patterns. They then present one of their "rules" to...
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Spelling Bees
A multiplayer game challenges participants to spell as many of the given words as fast they can.
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Count Down to the National Spelling Bee
Spelling bee lesson plans can get students into the spirit of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and spell, spell, spell.
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Study Words for Seventh Graders
Does your school compete in a spelling bee? Do you want your seventh graders to learn challenging new words? Here's a list of 100 words to prepare your kids for the National Spelling Bee. Since the words are from the 2010-2011 school...
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A New Look at an Old Spelling System
Introducing herself as "a discouraged professor of English education," Alleen Pace Nilsen elaborates on the prominence of incorrect spelling in education today. She laments the overuse of spellcheck (and substituting the wrong words),...
Happy Moose Apps
Bitsboard - Education, Games, and Flashcards for Learning Reading, Spelling, and more
Learn everything from sight words to French vocabulary with this versatile study app. While the material that comes pre-loaded on the app is mostly based on learning how to read and spell, the app has the potential to be useful for any...
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Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Spelling Connections: Grade 2: Number Words
In this spelling instructional activity, students analyze a picture of a park scene and notice the animals and insects. Using number words, students fill in the blanks in a story about how many creatures are in the park. There is no word...
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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle worksheet. First, learners match up single-syllable rhyming words. Then, they find all the words in a word search. This beginning reading activity only has words spelled horizontally from left...
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Try a Money Bee for a "Change"
Students take the spelling bee format and adapt it to provide practice in making change and work on their money skills. They simulate the process of making purchases with money and making change as necessary to complete the purchase.
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Bar Graph Activity: Spelling Bee
In this bar graph worksheet, students use information about a class spelling bee, shown in a bar graph, to complete a set of 7 related questions. Answers included on page 2.
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Improving Your Spelling with the Virtual Thesaurus
Learners study spelling words. For this word study lesson, students use the Visual Thesaurus and play the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee.
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Spelling With Double Letters
Students practice spelling words with double letters. In this spelling lesson plan, students read a rhyme chorally and identify the words with double letters. Students complete a instant activity worksheet to practice spelling their...
K12 Reader
Christmas Rhymes
What better way for children to celebrate the holiday season than by practicing their phonemic awareness skills? Presenting young readers with a series of eight Christmas-themed words, this worksheet asks them to circle the words that...
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Spelling Bee/Musical Chairs
Learners spell and recognize vocabulary words and/or spelling words by playing musical chairs with spelling words.
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Grade 2 Language Arts Review Quiz - Capitalization, Punctuation, Rhyming Words, Long "ee"
In this language arts review worksheet, 2nd graders complete 6 questions. They rewrite 2 sentences while making corrections to capitalization and punctuation. They circle words that go together and the words that rhyme in the next 2...
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Bee a Good Reader
Being able to distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e is an important skill. Young readers are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that makes the long vowel sound. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Clifford And the Big Parade
Five worksheets are included in this resource based on Norman Bridwell’s, Clifford and the Big Parade. Class members complete a vocabulary word search and a crossword puzzle, sequence the events in the story, answer eight comprehension...
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'EE' Words
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden 'ee' words within the word search puzzle. Students use the word bank to help them find the 30 words.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Sound-Alike Words 1
In this listening and speaking worksheet, learners will read 20 sentences each containing a misspelled homophone. Then students will circle the misspelled homophone and write the correct sound alike word on the line.
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Drum Roll, Please!
Drill and practice phonemes, letter formations, written language, vowel correspondences, as well as consonant correspondences with youngsters. They will locate and identify the /b/ in written and spoken words from flash cards containing...
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Onomatopoeia
Some words actually sound like their meaning. When this happens, it's known as onomatopoeia. Learners look at a series of pictures, and match up a bunch of words with the pictures they sound like. For example, the word buzz would go with...
California Academy of Science
The Heat is On: Cause and Effect and Climate
The higher the number of letters in the final word for the National Spelling Bee, the higher the number of people killed by venomous spiders. Obviously, those two facts correlate, but no causation exists. Scholars view data based on...