How to Teach Spellings to Children in a Way That is Enjoyable?

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Your child is growing up and you wish to teach him/her spellings; how to do it easily and at the sametime enjoyable and amusing? Children love to learn things the fun way. If you teach things in a way they like, they are sure to understand it easily. Do you like people forcing you to do a certain task? No…this same rule applies to children too. Be creative in your ideas when you wish to teach your children; you can not only teach spellings but anything and everything under the sun. Let me tell you some tips to teach spellings to children the easy and fun way. 

Every child loves to play and there is definitely no exception to it. Do you play “Simon says” with your child? If yes, you can use this method to teach spellings. Rather saying count, spell the word and see whether your child is able to understand it. Do this activity for every spelling that you wish to teach your child. Another way is asking your child to spell a word.

If you have more than one kid, you can say “whoever spells a particular word correctly will get a gift.” This will motivate the child to say the spelling right.

Tracing the words is another way to teach spellings. Start with alphabets. Write a big “A” in a board or paper. Ask the child to trace the letter.

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Does your child love coloring? Draw fruits or vegetables or any item for which you wish to teach the spelling. Ask your child to color it and name it.

Write words on cards with bright colored sketch pens. Children love colors. Show them the colors and they are sure to learn the spellings.

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Teach them how to understand sounds of different words. Ask your child to observe how you move your mouth to say the words. This way the child can correlate the sound and the way your mouth moves.

Try playing word games with your child. There are umpteen websites that has word games. Start with a simple word game and as your child grows up, you can go for complicated word games.

Play scrabble. This will definitely help in teaching spellings to children. This applies to children who are a bit older, say, above 8 years.

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When you call them for eating, write the spellings of food items that you have prepared for the day and keep it on the dining table. Help them in finding the food item that they want. Don’t keep the food on the table, just the names written neatly in a piece of paper.

These fun activities will definitely make your child learn spellings. Do you find it difficult to teach nursery rhymes to your children? It is easy to teach if you can be a little creative.