Download Spelling Homework Ideas – Sara Lowe

Here is a fun list of different ways to practise your spelling words!
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ABC order: Write your words in alphabetical order.
Repetition: Write your words 3 times each.
Sentences: Write a sentence for each spelling word.
Word Art: Draw a picture and write your words in
the picture.
Story Time: Write a short story using all of your
words. Circle all of your spelling words.
Creative Letter: Write your words by cutting out
letters in an old magazine or newspaper.
Pyramid: Write your words adding or subtracting
one letter at a time. The result will be a pyramid
shape of words.
Handwriting: Write each word 3 times in your best
handwriting.
Choo-Choo Words: Write the entire list end-to-end
as one long word, using different colours for
different words.
Flashwriting: In a darkened room, use a flashlight to
draw letters in the air.
Timer: Get a timer, set it for 3 minutes. See how
many times you can write your words before the
timer goes off.
Scramble: Have an adult scramble your spelling
words. You try and unscramble them
Chalk: Write your words outside using chalk.
Letters: Write each word as many times as there
are letters in the word.
Out Loud: Spell your words out loud 2 times to a
brother, sister, grandparent, mum, dad or adult.
Trace Around: Print your spelling neatly. Take a
coloured pen an draw an outline around the word,
closely following the shapes of the letters. Close
your eyes and remember the shape.
Colourful Words: Use two different coloured pens
to write your spelling words. Use one colour to
write the consonants and the other for the vowels.
Military Spelling: Do jumping jacks, as you clap say
a letter to spell your words.
Finger Tracing: Use your finger to spell out each of
your words one letter at a time on your Mum or
Dad’s back. Then it’s your turn to feel and spell. Try
to guess the word.
Practice Test: Have an adult give you a practice
test.
Type it: Use an electronic device to type up your
words.
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Words –in-Words: Write your word and then write
at least 2 words made from each.
Rainbow Words: Write your words using lots of
different coloured pens/felts.
Make a word search and have someone at home
solve it.
Draw a picture and ‘hide’ words in the picture.
Silly Sentence: Write 5 silly sentences using a
spelling word in each sentence. Example: My dog
wears a blue and purple dress when he takes a
bath.
Backwards Words: Write ten of your words
forwards and then backwards.
Rhyme Time: Chose eight of your spelling words
and for each word, write as many rhyming words as
you can.
Fancy Words: Choose 8 of your words and write
them using fancy letters.
Upper and Lower: Write each of your spelling
words in UPPER CASE and lower case.
Riddle Me: Write a riddle for as many of your
spelling words as you can. Example: What has a
face and two hands but no arms or legs? A clock.
Code Words: Come up with a code for each letter
of the alphabet. Then write your words in code.
Example: A = @ B = ± C = €
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Acrostic Poem: Choose one of your spelling words.
Write an acrostic poem for that word. Example:
Fun in the sky.
Laps around the clouds.
Yes! I’m Free
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Create an Activity: Can you think of a fun way to do
your spelling activities? Try it out.
Fun with
Spelling!
More fun ways to practise your spelling words
LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK.
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Riddles-Using a spelling word as the answer, you
could try and think of a riddle that goes with it e.g.
‘what lives in a cave and hangs upside down?’
A b-a-t. You could get really creative and think of
some harder ones.
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Joke book-Make a joke book- including one of your
spelling words in each joke.
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Fill-in the blank- Leave out the spelling word in the
sentences that you write, and see if anyone can
guess which word fills in the blank (have a list of
your spelling words there for them).
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Make a crossword puzzle.
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Spell your words out to the tune of BINGO –make a
song.
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Graffiti your words with chalk on the concrete.
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Make a ‘cootie catcher’:
Apps to support learning of spelling words: