The Most Popular 26 Efficient English Spelling Games, Allowing Children To Get Started And Pass The Level In One Second!

Efficient spelling is no longer unfamiliar to today's parents. It is said that being able to read words by sight, write by listening to sounds, and mastering basic spelling skills is like helping children to open up the Ren and Du channels, which can speed up the pace of independent reading. For this reason, many parents send their children to professional institutions to learn spelling courses.

The most popular 26 efficient spelling games. You don’t have to spend any money, it’s fun and can be played at home. The operator only needs to use some simple props to easily let children get started and pass the level! These games can not only help children master the pronunciation of English letters and efficient spelling rules, but also exercise children's cognitive and physical development abilities.

Start with efficient phonics posters

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare a piece of white paper and use some interesting and simple pictures to introduce some knowledge points to the children.

02. Start learning with a clear understanding of the concepts of vowels and consonants. You can substitute the initial consonants and finals in Chinese Pinyin with examples to assist in the explanation. (It is recommended to practice the vowels and consonants separately. After you are familiar with the vowels, you can practice the consonants, and then combine the vowels and consonants. Pinyin);

03. Vowel and consonant spelling exercises, using high-frequency vocabulary in life, from simple to long and difficult, and continue to accumulate.

04. After the game is over, the children need to read out the written words to practice and take dictation.

Identify initial letters by color

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare 2 pieces of paper with letters of different sizes printed on them, and attach the words to be expressed on them. Many children learn to spell efficiently from the pronunciation of the first letter.

02. Use colors in any order to help children learn the letter sounds of words and connect related words, and learn different colors on a picture.

03. For example: letter A-orange (axe, apple, ant); letter B-purple (bird, bell, ball,.)

04. After the game is over, the children need to read out the words filled with pictures by themselves.

Make words with starting phonemes

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare a Chart.

02. Use different phonemes at the beginning to form words, just like learning to combine words to make sentences, helping children learn phonemes better.

03. Form words, such as:

P-Pig

Ph-phone

Sn-Snake

04. The game can be practiced in groups, or you can practice PK between the same table.

Take a card

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Select a number of letter cards from a set of letter cards, including both consonant letter cards and vowel letter cards;

02. Place them on the table, and then parents say a CVC word at will (CVC: consonant-vowel-consonant), let the child listen to the pronunciation, take a picture of the corresponding letter card (you can click it or click it correctly) and read it out. letter sounds, and then spell out the whole word. For example: there are letter cards of m, p, n, b, c, l, a, e, i, on the table. The parent says cap, and the child takes pictures of the three letter cards of c, a, p and reads the word cap.

Paper Cup Jenga

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Write 26 letters on the cups. The three cups can be replaced and superimposed at will to let the children spell out the words independently;

02. The order of cups: consonant – vowel – consonant.

03. For example: PET forms Pet (pet)

This game is especially suitable for children to learn CVC and CVCC words.

Learn with a wheel

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare a piece of base paper and a few small clips, use a compass to draw a center circle in the center, and prepare to put stickers on them with what you want to learn.

02. Divide into 6-8 squares, and you can do a set of good exercises like this in each square.

03. Use high-frequency vocabulary linkage learning and play with the turntable.

Bottle Cap Combination Game

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Wash the used bottle caps, and then use a marker/sticker to write the letters or letter combinations you want to learn, such as c-, f-, -at, -it…

02. Let the children match their own words and see how many words they can form, such as fat, hat, cat, etc.;

03. It should be noted that after the children combine the words, parents should encourage the children to read them out and let the children judge whether the combined words are correct words.

Shoot the letters

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. The preparation tools only require a small paddle, plus 26 letter blocks.

02. The teacher says a word and asks the children to find the letter combinations to form the word.

03. After forming a round, the child's reaction ability is trained. The teacher announces one of the words, and the students tap the word they hear with a clapper.

04. If you want to practice other vocabulary, just shuffle it again to find the letters and spell the vocabulary. This game is more suitable for those lively and active children.

Homemade erasable phonics board

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Parents can first make a phrase house as shown in the picture. In order to facilitate reuse, parents can go to a print shop to have the phrase house plastic-wrapped once;

02. Next, efficient spelling exercises can be carried out. Parents first write the letter combinations to be learned today on the roof, such as -ill and -orn;

03. Finally, let the children add letters to form new words. For example, -ill can be combined into fill, kill, bill, mill, etc., and -orn can be combined into horn, corn, torn, etc.;

04. If you want to practice other combinations, parents can just erase them and re-select the phrases.

Alphabet poker game

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Write ed, at, sh and other letter combinations on small cards, and then ask the children to add a few letters to these letter combinations to turn it into a word;

02. At the beginning of the game, parents and children can each play a card like playing poker, and then read the other's card.

Just Swap One

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare a piece of paper divided into grids 9-12, and draw or paste vocabulary pictures of related single syllables on it.

02. Create new words by swapping letters in each word. For example: Man changes one letter to become Mad, bus changes one word to Bat.

03. This game is very suitable for cultivating children's phoneme awareness, focusing on cultivating children's ability to divide individual syllables in words.

Roulette game

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Take out three paper plates, divide them into ten equal parts on the first plate, and write the letters b, c, d, f, h, m, p, r, s, t respectively;

02. Divide the second plate into ten equal parts and write the five vowels AEIOU twice; divide the third plate into seven equal parts and write the letters b, p, d, g, m, n, t;

03. Next, cut out the shape of an arrow from cardboard, and then use three thumbtacks to slightly fix it on the three plates;

04. Let the child turn the three turntables respectively. The arrows point out which three letters, and let the child spell out the word.

word big PK

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare ten blank cards, five for each person;

02. Taking -ff as an example, each person has to write 5 words containing -ff, and take turns to draw a word card for each other to read. Those who pronounce it incorrectly or do not write enough 5 words will be punished. If the child is young, you can also ask for only 3 words.

word ladder

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. On the whiteboard or paper, draw a ladder;

02. Parents write a word at the bottom of the ladder, such as sat;

03. Then let the child write a new word by changing only one letter;

04. Then the parents continue until either the parent or the child cannot write the word. To increase the difficulty, you can also ask to pronounce the word or even make a sentence.

Word-Wheel

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. The turntable is divided into 3 parts, from the inside to the outside: consonant letter combinations, letter combinations and word pictures. After cutting them out separately, nail the three circles with different diameters together, and the toy is ready;

02. By turning the turntable, form a new word that matches the picture. Each time a new word is formed, ask the child to read it out loud.

Slide card

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Prepare some word cards and envelopes made of white paper;

02. Parents slow down the process of pulling out the complete card and ask the child to guess what the word is while pulling out. This game is very popular abroad. It is a complete learning process from learning initial letters to words to pictures.

word pitching game

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. The props are very simple, just use a set of simple disposable paper cups and plastic cups, and a few table tennis balls.

02. Parents use a marker to write the word on the table tennis ball, and write the letter combination used in the word on the disposable plastic cup; and fix it on the ground.

02. Let the child choose a table tennis ball, read the word on the ball aloud, and then throw the ball into the cup with the corresponding letter combination. For example, if the word "fat" is written on the table tennis ball, it needs to be thrown into the cup with -at.

03. Another example: If a child throws a ping pong ball in and can form a word, one point will be added. If the child throws in SH, he will say the word Sheep.

Styrofoam strips

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Use a few foam strips and a stick to mark the letters.

02. Use different letters to form different words and vocabulary. Parents use markers to write words on the ping pong balls and write the letter combinations used in the words on disposable plastic cups; and fix them on the ground.

03. Another example: If a child throws a ping pong ball in and can form a word, one point will be added. If the child throws in SH, he will say the word Sheep.

syllable wheel

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Draw a circle on the cardboard and write about ten letters along the edge of the circle, such as r, t, m, p, f, s, l, n, c, b and then cut out the circle;

02 Cut out several long strips from other cardboard, write a letter combination at the end of each strip, such as -ug, and then use thumbtacks to pin the strips and circles together, making sure they are nailed to the center, so This can ensure a more balanced rotation;

03. Next, you can practice. The child will copy the word obtained by rotating the long bar on the printed form, read the word out loud, and judge whether it is a real English word. For example, sug is not a real word. Children You need to circle no and repeat the rotation to get new combinations until the table is filled.

Small note combination

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. The materials only require a few small wooden sticks and small strips of paper to flexibly form different words;

02. For example: the combination of the letter -at and the consonant letters (m-, p-, s-) can respectively form: mat, pat, and sat.

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Phonics cube

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Make a set of two cubes, one set is the initial letter of the word, and the other set is the letter combination. Turn the two together, and the first person to turn the correct word wins.

02. You can add appropriate sentences and patterns to match. For example: S+Un=Sun

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flip game

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Families with children must have such a prop, an empty wet wipes box.

02. Attach a sticker to the lid and put the initials underneath. It is very easy to make a useful learning tool.

03. Open the corresponding letter sounds to form words.

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Race to the Top

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. This is a game suitable for practicing consonants. Replace consonants to form new words. The first person to reach the top wins.

02. Suitable for two groups of group PK, and also suitable for double PK. Whoever wins or loses starts first, and then there is no limit to the number of new words for each consonant letter group, and the time is limited. Whoever forms the most words at the end wins.

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lock and key

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. This is an automatically corrected natural spelling game, which can very well help children review the knowledge of efficient spelling.

02. Put the initial label on the key and the end of the word on the lock, mix them together and let the child form the correct word.

Four

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. This is a bit like backgammon. Make a word list and find the same 4 words on it. The first person to connect a line wins.

pocket chart

▌Steps & gameplay:

01. Pocket chart (Chart) is one of the teaching tools often used by Beidi English teachers. It is very useful, especially in reading, writing and spelling classes.

02. In efficient spelling, for example: -at forms the words rat, mat, bat, sat, hat, fat, etc.

03. At the same time, students can be asked to write on the blackboard to find high-frequency words that are often used in life.

Conclusion

Have you learned these 27 simple-to-operate mini-games? Hurry up and try it with your children! Since it is a small game, adults can set up some reward and punishment systems when playing with children to increase children's enthusiasm for participation.

Source | Five Creations and Five Plus Culture

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