Teaching Themes
Spelling: Everything You Need
These methods, topics, and interactive activities will help students develop spelling skills — and discover the limits of spell-check.
Kids Give Back with New "Learn-a-Thons"
Grades: 3–5
From spelling bees to math challenges, kids raise funds while mastering skills.
Spelling Books
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Articles, Book Resources How Children Learn to SpellGrades: Early Childhood, Infant, PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Dr. Louisa Moats describes a comprehensive strategy for teaching children to spell. The approach incorporates visual memory and spelling memory,... |
 Online Learning Activities Spelling Wizard: A Homework Hub ActivityGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Students can choose from two fun, easy-to-use online activities that will help them memorize their spelling words. |
 Writing Activities, Articles Chalk it up! (Teacher Tip)Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Spelling practice can be fun when done with chalk on the blacktop. |
 Book Resources, Lesson Plans Decoding Multisyllabic WordsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Illustrates how you can improve your students'reading and language arts skills by teaching them to memorize common syllable spelling patterns. |
 Games, Online Learning Activities Scholastic News HangmanGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 This fun, interactive version of the classic game tests students’ vocabulary in the news, entertainment, and sports genres. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities Make a Word: A Clifford Interactive Storybook GameGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 This interactive learning activity, featuring the popular Clifford the Big Red Dog, helps early readers practice building words with vowels. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities Letter Match: A Clifford Interactive Storybook GameGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 This interactive learning activity, featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, helps early readers practice letter recognition in an engaging way. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities Clifford Interactive Storybooks: Phonics Fun for Early ReadersGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Teach phonics through online games and stories starring Clifford! |
 Articles Spelling and the ESL ChildGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Discusses special considerations and techniques for teaching spelling to second-language learning children, particularly native Spanish and Asian... |
Book Resources, Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and WritersGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Shows how teachers can use a word wall to teach primary teachers students the words that are so important for reading and writing. |
 Book Resources, Extension Activities, Vocabulary Builders Dr. Seuss Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Dr. Seuss stories are full of invitations to build literacy skills. Rhyming words teach vowel sounds, reinforce spelling patterns, build sight... |
Articles, Book Resources Clifford Phonics Fun Books and ResourcesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Books and Resources for teaching Clifford Phonics Fun. |
