Spelling ability is crucial to your child's reading ability. Five games improve reading and reinforce spelling words.
1. Hopscotch
Draw a hopscotch outline with chalk or tape and write the letters of a spelling word in the squares. Your child says the letters out loud as he hops. Erase one letter at a time until he can successfully spell the word without hopping, and then move onto the next spelling word.
2. Ball Toss
Toss a ball back and forth to reinforce spelling in a fun way. Each time your child catches the ball, she says the next letter of the spelling word.
3. Hide and Seek
Write the spelling words on note cards, and tape them in unusual places, such as on the back of cabinet doors, in your child's closet or in her pencil or jewelry box. When she finds a word, she brings the card to you and spells the word.
4. Memory Reading Game
Have your child write his spelling words onto two identical sets of note cards. Place them upside down on the table and take turns trying to find matches. He reads and spells every matched word. Cover one or two of the letters and play the game again.
5. Spelling City
A free online game site, you enter the spelling words onto a list your child can practice every day. Hangman, memory and matching games entertain and teach your child, and a test at the end ensures she has mastered every word on the list.
All five games are fun ways your child can improve his or her spelling at home, school or with a reading tutor. Think Tutoring has comprehensive reading programs serving Morris County, NJ students. For more information on how to hlep your child with spelling and reading, call 973-593-0050.