Do you struggle to find fun spelling activities that motivate students to master their spelling lists? Even with the invention of spellcheckers, beginning spelling skills still serve as a cornerstone for early reading foundations and contribute significantly to the development of vocabulary and reading comprehension. Evan-Moor’s TeacherFileBox printables provide engaging and fun spelling activities and weekly tests, including weekly units from Evan-Moor’s Building Spelling Skills books. The easy-to-use spelling units for grades 1–6 are easy to preview on a screen or print. Quickly find spelling word lists, word searches, puzzles, games, and center activities to help students learn the most important words in each grade level.
Spelling worksheets are at your fingertips with TeacherFileBox, Evan-Moor’s digital and printable lesson library. Browse these engaging spelling activities:
Weekly Spelling Lists and Activities
Grade 1
Focus: short “a” words
Skills: memorizing, contextualizing, rhyming, and studying word meaning
Find the activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Grade 2
Focus: digraphs “oo” and “wh”
Skills: memorizing, visualizing, and studying word meaning
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Grade 3
Focus: digraphs “ch,” “sh,” “th,” “wh,” and the syllable “sh”
Skills: memorizing, visualizing, and studying word meaning
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Grade 4
Focus: words with easily confused spellings
Skills: contextualizing, studying word meaning, correcting misspellings
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Grade 5
Focus: final “l” sound, multisyllabic words, and schwa sound
Skills: contextualizing, studying word meaning, correcting misspellings, and syllable matching
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Grade 6
Focus: plural forms of words
Skills: studying word meaning, dictating, and correcting misspellings
Find the activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Colorful and Creative Spelling Activities
Grade 1
This
printable focuses on spelling, reading, and grammar, all while focusing on words with the “oo.” Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Grade 2
Students work to form compound words in this printable matching-picture game here. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Grade 3–4
In this activity, have students use a letter bank to create words surrounding the letters “in”. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Play the “Word-a-Thon” game to form as many words as possible with the grid of letters provided. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Grade 4
This story and the accompanying crossword, word search, and poetry activities work students through r-controlled vowels (er, or, ear) and the vowel “o”. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
For additional spelling activities flip through this curated book of spelling games for fourth graders.
Grade 5
This spelling unit includes words with digraphs “ch,” “th,” and “wh” and includes a word search, creative writing challenges, punctuation activities, and more. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Ten–Minute Spelling Games For Grades 1-3
Grammar Using “I”
With this first-letter shapes game, have kids rewrite a spelling word over and over again in the shape of the word’s first letter. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Goose-Spot Game
In this pattern identification game, have students identify “goose spots,” or words with double letters. Find this activity on TeacherFileBox here.
Evan-Moor’s TeacherFileBox printables make lesson planning a snap. The diverse spelling activities and games provide engaging learning experiences for kids. With over 80,000 lesson units available for grades PreK–6, TeacherFileBox makes it easy to build your spelling curriculum. In addition to spelling lessons, TeacherFileBox also includes lesson units across the curriculum for grades PreK–6 in math, language, writing, science, geography, social studies, STEM/STEAM, SEL, and more! Save your favorite printables in your personal account—and print lessons, project them onto a screen, or share them in your Google Classroom!
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Natalie Robinson is a recent Communication Studies graduate from LMU. She has a strong passion for writing and loves children. Having grown up in a Montessori school and later transitioning to public school, Natalie values early childhood education and believes that social and emotional learning should be a core tenet within all homes and classrooms. In writing for Evan-Moor, Natalie hopes to build a career in copywriting and copyediting.