Spelling

All Grades
Spelling City This is one of the most comprehensive spelling websites we've found. Free and paid versions are available with many activities for each. Teachers can add their own spelling lists for students to use at school or at home.

Chicktionary, Fowl Words, Fowl Words 2, Letter Rip, Wordo, Writer's Block @http://www.kewlbox.com (click on the Word tab)
 * Kewlbox** has free downloadable word games:

K-2
Word Center Students can practice spelling colors and shapes by clicking on the correct letters shown at the bottom of the screen.

Magical Capitals Students click on the letters that should be capitalized. A magic fairy transforms the letters into capitals. Sentence beginnings and proper nouns are included. Very colorful with fun animations. There is also verbal feedback that reinforces the rules for capitalization.

Word Ends Cards Teachers select word endings from a list that is provided. Students are then prompted to make as many words with the pre-selected word ending as possible. A great strategy to employ would be the use of a timer to help children compete or to develop their ability to construct words from their prior knowledge. There is also a print option available for students who would then provide their list to you and could have a discussion about why their words or non-words were selected.

Lexis the Magician The initial animated storyline goes on for a few minutes. To bypass it, click on the icon bar that looks like a triangle at the bottom of the window. Then your students will be able to practice forming compound words, and contractions.

Alien Scavenger Hunt Letter Bugs Students click on aliens flying through space to spell CVC words. When they've finished, a narrator sounds out each letter sound, and then pronounces the spelled word. Very fun and colorful with great sound effects.

Alien Scavenger Hunt Space Trash This game is similar to the other Alien Scavenger Hunt game, but after hearing a word they must click on the starting letter and ending letter pair. The narrator then sounds out the letter sounds, and pronounces the spelled word.

Fearless Frieda Fearless Frieda rides a skateboard. This game will require the use of an on-screen keyboard. Students listen to and then spell a CVC word. Fun animations, lots of sound effects and colors like the other Game Goo activities.

Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna In this game Fearless Frieda is a surfer. Students must spell 4 letter words ending in E. An on-screen keyboard is required.

3-8
Extreme Sentence Surgeons Here's the description of the game from Mr. Nussbaum: "Your paragraph surgery skills will be put to the test as critically injured paragraphs enter your emergency room. Their injuries are significant: poor spelling, no punctuation, wrong word usage, and much more. It will be gruesome. Use your superior skills to fix the bad spelling words, add commas, capital letters, periods, apostrophes, and change words used incorrectly." The first level has 16 errors to correct. The second level has 24.

Scrabble Sprint Works with Flash Game Maximizer. You click on letters to spell as many words as possible with the given tiles. The clock is ticking!

Daily Jumble It looks just like the classic newspaper game. Unscramble words by dragging the letter tiles to the correct position, then unscramble a phrase using the clue and the circled letters. Use with Flash Game Maximizer.The puzzle may also be printed.

Jumpin Jumble Use your checker to jump over letters to spell words up to 5 letters long. After spelling a word, letter tiles are replaced with new ones. There are 3 levels of play. You are to create a chain of 8 words in the first level and 12 in the second. You may scramble the letters on the board at any time, but you are penalized 250 points. Very challenging!