The methods, teacher tips, and interactive activities in this collection will help students develop spelling skills.
Activity
Make a Word: A Clifford Interactive Storybook Game
This interactive learning activity, featuring the popular Clifford the Big Red Dog, helps early readers practice building words with vowels.
Grades
PreK–K, 1–2
Activity Type
- Listen and Read Activities
- Computer Lab Activities
- Interactive Whiteboard Activities
Scholastic's interactive learning activities starring Clifford the Big Red Dog offer phonics fun to early readers.
With Make a Word (created for grades K–2), students create words by dragging missing vowels to them. Once they have created a word, a narrator sounds out the word, helping students practice identifying words with short-vowel sounds and sound spellings.
Learning Objectives
While participating in Make a Word, students will:
- Develop phonemic awareness skills
- Distinguish easily confused letter pairs
- Recognize common short and long vowel sound spellings
- Interact with the computer to create new text

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