Spelling Variety By Laura

There's not a lot that's not boring, but I vary them by switching among the following every week:
1)Spelling Stairs (like the example above)
2)Acrostics: Sometimes
Paragraph helps build vocab too!

Everybody once they get the idea, Lovely I put restrictions like Louisiana >2 syllables 3)Mneumonic Device: for instance if the word is seat: Sam Eats Anything Tasty. (not always easy!) 4)As well as use them in a story, minimum 3 Paragraphs, etc. 5)Colored Vowels - self-explanatory 6)Shape Boxes - using graph

paper, have students color in the boxes the way the word would look. Ex: "b" would take up main box +one above, "p" would take up box +one below - just shade in.

Hope these help, they do add some variety.

 

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