2nd Grade Spelling Activities
If you are homeschooling your second grader, you may want different spelling activities to keep your child interested in learning spell. There are several good spelling activities for your second grader. Making these activities doesn't have to be hard. You need to keep your child interested in spelling by giving him different ways to learn. Use the suggested spelling activities below and you can probably think of many other fun activities to make as well.
Instructions
Spelling Puzzles
1. Make a printable word search puzzle. There are websites online to help you make them. Discovery School (see Resources) has a great word search puzzle maker. Have the list of the spelling words at the bottom. Then have your child find them in the puzzle and circle them.
2. Make a hand printed word search puzzle. Take a piece of graph paper and write in the spelling words. Write them vertically, horizontally and diagonally. Then fill in the blank spaces with random letters. List the words to find at the bottom of the page. Give to your child to complete. This method allows you to create spelling words for any subject.
3. Create a word scramble puzzle as a spelling activity. Take your child's list of spelling words and mix up the spelling of each one. Then the student has to spell it correctly. You can do this by making a hand printed worksheet, or use the online puzzle maker provided by Armored Penguin (see Resources).
4. Play Hangman as a fun learning game. Pick a word or short phrase and make lines for each letter. Write the alphabet underneath. The student has to guess each letter in the puzzle. If he picks the wrong letter, add a part to the hangman. If he guesses a letter correctly, it brings him that much closer to solving the puzzle.
5. Play a fun variation of Hangman by using balloons. It plays the same as regular Hangman, except if the student gets a letter wrong you pop a balloon. Have five to ten balloons for each word or phrase. The student will have to guess the word before all five to ten balloons are popped.
6. Make a clueless crossword puzzle. Take the spelling words and make a crossword puzzle from them. Use that as your answer guide then blank out the letters. In front of each word to be filled in, put a picture of what that word is. Then the student has to spell that word in the space. For an older child, you can make word clues instead of using pictures. Puzzle-Maker has a good program that allows you to create a crossword puzzle for free (see Resources).
Spelling Games
7. Play "Fill in the Blank." Write down the spelling words, leaving some of the spaces blank. The student has to correctly fill in the blanks with the missing letters.
8. Create a "Make a Word" game. Get some card stock and cut them up into two-inch squares. Write the letters from each of the child's spelling word list on each square. Take some of the more common letters and make a few more squares from them so you will have extra letters in the mix. Play the game like Scrabble without the board.
9. Play "Make a Word" by having the student try to make as many of his spelling words as he can with the squares while being timed. An alternative would be to say a spelling word out loud, and the student has to find the correct squares and lay them out to spell the word.
10. Play "Musical Word Chairs" with more than one child. It works like "Musical Chairs," except when the music stops, the students have to race to the correct word. Put a word on each chair. Before starting the music, tell the children the word they are to find. Play the music. When the music stops, the students have to sit in the chair with the right word. The one that gets it right is out of the game until all the words have been "sat on."
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