10 Resources for World Spelling Day

World Spelling Day takes place on 6th March 2012. If you’re planning to get involved, take a look at these 10 great resources:

1) World Spelling Day site – Progress through the challenges on the World Spelling Day site and earn points for every correct answer!

2) The Spellathon is open to all ages and allows children to test their spelling skills while raising money for charity.

3) James Barrett has created lots of amazing Literacy and spelling games that can be used on an interactive whiteboard in your classroom.

4) Spelling it Right has a HUGE collection of printable worksheets and online activities that children can use.

5) Ideas to Inspire hosts Tom Barrett’s ’21 Interesting Ways to Support Spelling’ presentation which lists lots of great ideas.

6) Don’t forget that Teaching Ideas has a large collection of spelling resources that have been kindly contributed by teachers.

7) Primary Resources and Teacher’s Pet also have a number of fantastic spelling resources.

8 ) Mr Thorne’s phonics videos are a great way for children to develop their reading and spelling skills. Visit his site, Youtube channel or download one of his apps! Here’s an example:

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9)  Spelling City is a popular site that lets teachers set of spelling lists which children can then use within online games and challenges.

10) The BBC has over 400 of their ‘class clips’ video resources linked to spelling. Browse through them here.

What are your favourite spelling resources?

About Mark Warner

Mark has worked in schools for over 13 years and he is also the creator of a number of popular teaching resource sites, including www.teachingideas.co.uk and www.teachingpacks.co.uk.

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  • Alicia_isabel

    Thx a looot for posting all these interesting links =)

  • Anonymous

    VocabularySpellingCity is my favorite educational site! My students play the games everyday on our interactive whiteboard. There is such a variety of free, fun games that they never tire of them. I love the fact that I can give my weekly spelling tests online. Thank you for including this great site!

  • Mary Balthaser

    Thanks for sharing all these great sites I’m looking forward to checking into them. I was thrilled to see that you recommend VocabularySpellingCity.  It is one of my favorite websites and my class uses it almost nightly.  For years I just had the free membership and I loved it, but last year I acquired a premium membership and my class has never been the same.  I am able to assign individual and group assignments to all my students.  My students really enjoy Unscramble Words (free) and Speedy Speller (Premium Membership).   With Speedy Speller they compete with each other for speed and spelling accuracy, some mornings they come in boasting about beating another classmate’s highest score.


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