About once a week I receive a spam email from someone trying to sell me domain names related to online spelling games and spelling apps. Got another one of those this morning. I took it as a sign that I should prepare a new post about online spelling games and spelling apps. These are some of the most popular ones that I have featured during the last fifteen years of running this blog.
Flippity’s Spelling Words
is a free Google Sheets template that you can use to create custom spelling games for your students. To do this, you simply have to make a list of words that you want each of your students to practice. You’ll then place those lists under your students’ names in a Google Sheets template provided by Flippity. The next video-tutorial guides you through the process of creating individualized spelling games with Flippity’s Spelling Words template.ABCya offers hundreds of games covering a wide range of topics. The games are designed for K-6 students. One of the spelling games you might want to try is Submarine Spelling. underwater spelling is a based on dagger word list. Students progress through the list by listening and then spelling each word by dragging and dropping letters into the correct order. Spelling the words correctly moves the students’ submarines across the ocean.
Sight Word Bingo It is a game that I tried with my five year old son. The concept of this game is quite simple. I chose the word range for the game and then set the size of the bingo board. To play, you had to listen to the words being read aloud and then tap on the corresponding word on the bingo board. When a line of words was connected, you won a little “bingo monster” avatar. Sight Word Bingo includes vocabulary words appropriate for kindergarten through third grade.
pupil is a good service for creating simple vocabulary games and multiple-choice trivia games. One convenient aspect of the service is that once you’ve created a vocabulary word list, it will automatically apply multiple game formats for you. In other words, write a list of words and you’ll get some games that your students can play. Your students can play the games without creating an account on the Educandy site. In the next video I provide an overview of how you can create games on Educandy and how your students can access your games.
build a word is an interactive reading, writing, and thinking activity for K-2 students. In the activity, students choose an ending for a word and then have to choose the beginnings of the words to match the endings. The game gives students feedback on when they are correct or incorrect. It can be played without registering for an account.
