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2nd Grade Spelling Games

Our 2nd grade spelling games are wonderful because they are dynamic. Each time you play, the game changes!

• Fill in the Blank Game A new game is generated every time so you can play all week and not get bored!
• Word Search Randomly creates a new game for your student to find spelling words.
• Spelling Soup Catch the correctly spelled word with your soup bowl for points.

2nd Grade Spelling Bee Words

Home Spelling Words is the perfect website for to use for spelling bee practice. Create lists of ten or twenty 2nd grade spelling words and practice as much as you like. You can also play games with your spelling bee words and take tests as well.

The Very Best Spelling Games For 2nd Graders

Teaching our homeschoolers to spell can be quite a challenge! Fortunately, there are lots of fun spelling games for 2nd graders you can use to learn through play this year. Spelling games make learning to spell a lot more fun for kids.

I can still remember spelling bees and writing my spelling words over and over to practice. It was tedious and not always the best way to learn or practice spelling. I’m glad there are so many new fun ways to practice these skills with our second graders!

I’m excited to share all our favorite ways to help kids retain spelling concepts including online resources and board games. Plus, I’ll share some of our favorite resources and unit studies to teach 2nd-grade language arts in your homeschool this year.

The Power Of Learning Through Play

Learning through play is powerful! Research has shown that our kids learn a lot through play. Incorporating opportunities for play and encouraging exploration is an important part of early learning. 

Teaching concepts like spelling and multiplication require lots of memorization. These types of lessons work best for us when they’re learned through play. Projects with real-world applications and games make learning how to spell really easy for Emily. 

Family game nights have helped Emily master spelling too. We love playing Upwords, Boggle, and Bananagrams together as a family. These games help her remember how to spell words and give her extra practice executing these concepts too.

Spelling Games For 2nd Graders

We play all kinds of games in our homeschool. We love playing games together as a family. Plus, we’ve discovered that gameschooling has all kinds of amazing benefits for Emily. 

There are lots of fun games you can play together to help your homeschoolers master spelling during second grade too. You can discover a few of our favorites in my Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Second Grade. Here are a few of our favorite board games for improving spelling skills:

Word on the Street

There is also a junior version of Word on the Street for younger learners. Homeschoolers have to use certain letters of the alphabet on the board to answer the card. 

Word on the Street is a fun way to work on spelling skills together as a family. If you play in teams, you can help reluctant learners gain confidence too.

Bananagrams

Bananagrams are so versatile! You can use these tiles to play lots of different games in your homeschool. It’s definitely a game I like to have on hand here at The Waldock Way. 

This game is perfect for increasing processing speed in spelling and thinking about how words are formed. It’s a lot of fun for homeschool families who enjoy Scrabble too.

If you love Bananagrams you may also want to check out Bananagrams for Kids! a book full of word play and puzzles just for kids.

Boggle

We really enjoy playing Boggle together as a family. It’s basically a word search game you can scramble for more fun. Boggle really helps new spellers because once they figure out common blends like “at” or “in” they are able to form a multitude of words. 

Quiddler

Every round of Quiddler adds more cards to be rearranged in order to create words. This game is ideal for understanding words spatially and mixing or matching letters to spell new words. If you love wordplay, this game will be lots of fun for you!

Upwords

This game is definitely a family favorite! Upwords makes it easy to show kids how words can change by changing just one letter. Unlike Scrabble, where you can only change a word by adding letters to the beginning or end, Upwords teaches kids that switching the T in rat to P makes an entirely different word.

Wordical

One of the reasons we love Wordical is because it separates vowels and consonants, making it easy for homeschoolers to understand and master the differences. Plus, this game uses cards and dice to help kids spell words the way they see them. It’s a lot of fun!

Spelligator

I don’t know how anyone couldn’t love a game that combines spelling and gators. Spelligator is a word building game that teaches letter sounds, patterns and positioning. It covers consonants, vowels, digraphs, and blends. The player who makes the most word wins.

Spell Checked

SpellChecked is a card game everyone will enjoy. Players of all ages can practice and improve their spelling and their recognition of spelling patterns in words. Players are shown an image and the first letter of the word, and then they are asked to spell the word correctly. My personal favorite part is the option of playing decks with more challenging words, so players of all capabilities can compete against one another and everyone has a chance to win!

Scrabble

You can’t go wrong with a classic and Scrabble is the ultimate classic spelling game where every letter counts. There is also a junior version of Scrabble for younger learners.

Online 2nd Grade Spelling Games

Board games and card games are tons of fun! We play all kinds of games throughout the school year in the Waldock house. Another fun way to incorporate gameschooling into our spelling lessons is with online games. 

There are all kinds of fun online second-grade spelling games you can add to your homeschool lessons this year. Check out a few of our favorites below. 

ABC Mouse

ABC Mouse was designed by learning experts, your child can practice math, reading, phonics, and more. Games, puzzles, and other fun activities to help kids practice letters, numbers, and more!

Reading Eggs

Reading Eggs is the online reading program that helps children learn to read. Hundreds of online reading lessons, phonics games and books for ages 2–13.

NightZookeeper

Nightzookeeper is an online learning program that helps children with reading and writing, and unlocks their creativity. 

Educational Apps

Emily has a Kindle Paperwhite we use to help when Carschooling or learning on the go. It’s also a great way to take advantage of learning with screens in our homeschool. Here are some of the educational apps we like best for spelling practice:

• ABC Spelling
• Classic Words Free
• Hangman Classic Free
• Kids Puzzle Classic Spelling Games
• Monkey Word School Adventure
• Squeebles Word Search
• Word Cookies
• Wordscapes

More Resources For Second Grade Language Arts

There’s a lot to learn in second-grade language arts! Mastering spelling is definitely a big part of it, but you’ll also be building your child’s independent reading skills and learning about grammar. Don’t miss some of my favorite resources for second-grade language arts to help you along the way.

• Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling 2nd Grade
• A 2nd Grade Book List That Will Delight Your Child
• Ultimate Guide To Games For Every Subject In Your Homeschool

Plus, I’ve got lots of fun unit studies second graders will enjoy. You can use these unit studies to dive deep into topics that really interest your homeschoolers. Here are a few of our favorites:

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What’s your favorite way to teach spelling in the second grade? Share your favorite resources and games for mastering important spelling concepts with your homeschoolers in the comments. I can’t wait to read them and try a few with Emily too!

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Spelling games | Educational and methodological material on the Russian language on the topic:

SPELLING GAMES.

1.Check Dunno.

Dunno played with words, making one word out of two. Check if he

composed the words correctly?

Paul+Osa = stripes

Kol+Osa = Colosses

OG+Wasp-fits

Tooth+I = teeth

oak+b+I = Dubya

2. Who quickly correct the errors. (Subject: Capital letter)

The cards have misspelled text.

Task: Find and correct all capitalization errors as quickly as possible.

3. Read the offer. (Topic: Case endings.)

Cards are made from an album sheet on which sentences are written, but instead of nouns, the corresponding figures are placed.

Assignment: while reading a sentence, students use pictures to name nouns in the appropriate case, choosing the correct ending.

4. "Choose three words" (The game is used to reinforce any topics in the Russian language)

Purpose: To follow the formation of spelling skills, taking into account the stage of work on spelling.

The choice of words depends on the topics studied or covered.

Nine words are written on 9 cards:

1st set: fish, blizzard, stocking, oak trees, jam, scarecrow, streams, plague, mushroom.

2nd set: entrance, warehouse, crow, hail, filming, treasure, gate, rise, sparrow.

Bread

CLU-KA

Kali-KA

Bere-ki

Fleki

Obl-ki 9000 KI

Marty-ka

Redi-ka

Du-ki

Lo-koki

Tetra-KA

CLA

053

tra-Ka

Carko-Ka

Li-Kli

Ostro-oki

Promotion

Blue

Tasks:

Explain spellings by choosing test words.

6. Game "Ball"

Didactic task: Repeat the formulation of clarifying questions and case endings.

Game objective: Help the proposals get to the Ball.

Contents of the game:

Ball in the Grammar Kingdom today. There were many proposals for it. But the sentry will not let them into the palace until each noun from those who have appeared has its conjugation indicated. Help the proposals get to the Ball. What questions does the clock noun ask?

Materials:

A table is drawn on the board, the halves of which are separated by a sentry. The proposal is analyzed by one student, tips from the class are accepted.

Cherry blossoms in May Mother gave her son a book Swallows are returning from Africa A hare feeds on tree bark Sister came to her brother Sasha wrote a letter A fox hid behind a bush, etc. H a s o v o y In (what?) May blooms (what?) bird cherry. etc.

7. Game "Find the ending"

Didactic task: Repeat the case endings of nouns.

Game task: Find the endings of some words in sayings.

Content of the game:

“The ending is a very changeable, moving part of a word. She can easily get lost. Find the lost endings for these proverbs.”

Materials:

Cards

• Pick the berries... you will find the box.
• Drop by drop... and the stone hammers.

Without a primer and grammar... Mathematics cannot be learned...

8. The game "Nicknames"

Purpose: formation of the process of inflection and word formation, consolidation of phonetic and grammatical analysis of words, spelling of proper names.

Move: Form animal names from the following words:

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, RED, STAR

Make proposals.

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, GINGER, STAR

Highlight the part of the word that you used when composing nicknames (suffix, ending).

9. Game "Team chain game"

Didactic task: Complete the appropriate nouns in the accusative case.

Game objective: Make the chain as long as possible.

Contents of the game and Materials:

• Listening to music, mom...
• I am writing a dictation, a letter,...
• They are building a tower, a house,... etc.

10. The game "Hard - soft"

Purpose: to create conditions for repeating the spelling of hard and soft signs.

Students are divided into two teams. One team is called “Stone”, the other is called “Water”. The “Stone” team gets up if I read a word with a hard sign, if I read a word with a soft sign, the “Water” team gets up.

Words: congress, drive in, blizzard, pours, entrance, pour, announcement, stakes, runners, detour, ears of corn, drink, shooting, etc.

11.Game: Be careful.

Purpose: to activate memory, attention, vocabulary, based on knowledge of the rules.
Write out from the proposed poems with combinations of zhi, shi:
1. Siskins lived in a hut,
Mice, hedgehogs, swifts,
Walruses come to visit them
Both giraffes and snakes.
2. Vest, animal, belly,
Giraffes, painting, lives,
Briar, tires, reeds,
Cars and pencils,
Circle, serve, be friends and live,
Hurry, make laugh,
Hiss and sew.
All combinations of ZhI and SHI
Only with the letter I write!

12. Game: Slovoznaikin, give me an answer.

Purpose: to determine the level of development of children, to develop memory, thinking, speech.
Children are invited for a certain time to remember and write down as many proverbs and sayings, riddles and quatrains as possible, in which words and a given rule are found - "Spelling of words with combinations of zhi, shi." For example:
Proverbs and sayings:
Life is given for good deeds.
You can't hide an awl in a bag.
If ​​you hurry, you will make people laugh.
To live life is not a field to cross.
Friendship is like glass, if you break it, you won't stick it together.
Riddles:
Two birch horses
They carry me through the forest.
These red horses,
And their name is ... (skis).

He is tall and spotted

With a long, long neck,

And he eats leaves,

Leaves of trees (giraffe)
Quatrain:
She sewed a fur coat - she sewed a skirt,
She sewed a hat - she sewed a slipper!
Good seamstress Natasha!

13. Game: Change the letter.

Purpose: to intensify the mental activity of students, develop spelling and phonetic vigilance, attentiveness, logical thinking.
Children are offered the original word with a spelling, they change either one or two sounds in it sequentially, while maintaining the combination -chk-, and receive new words. The one with the most words wins.

daughter pen
barrel river
night candle
bump stove
point kidney
cloud daughter
wheelbarrow night

14. Game: Name one object.

Purpose: to develop methods for checking unstressed vowels.
The teacher says a word denoting many identical objects, and the students name one such object and explain what vowel should be written in the root of the word. For a correct answer, the row receives a point. The winner is determined by the number of points.
Sample material: words: doctors, eyes, rooks, gardens, basins, balls, sides, rains, yards, moles, seas, knives, fruits, fields, horns, etc.

15. Game: Capital letter.
Purpose: to reinforce the rule of capitalization in words.
Equipment: each student has a set of signal cards.
The teacher invites the class to listen carefully to the poem. Then the students mark with signal cards, all the rules for writing a capital letter, which are mentioned in the poem. Next, you need to protect each of your answers, that is, explain which rule is fixed. The winner is the one who manages to protect all signal cards.

An ordinary letter has suddenly grown, The letter
Has grown above the letters - girlfriends At the line at the beginning,
They look with respect So that we notice the beginning.
In the letter of a friend, First name, last name
But why? Are written with her,
For what merits? To be more noticeable and more visible,
To sound loud and proud
The letter did not want to grow by itself, Your name
The letter is entrusted with an important task: The name of the street, city.
Put in the word Large letter -
Not in vain and not easy Not at all empty,
The letter is so tall.

In a big letter -
Respect sign. (S. Izmailov)

16. Game: Half a minute for a joke.

Purpose: to fix the spelling of the capital letter in animal names.
Equipment: the board contains the names of those animals that are found in Yu. Chernykh's poem: a dog, a chicken, a cow, a cat, a horse.
The teacher asks the children to listen carefully to the poem and say what is wrong with it. The correct answer is rewarded with a game token. Some children add nicknames to the names of animals on the board, while the rest do this work in a notebook.
Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman
With a little granddaughter.
They called their red cat
Zhuchka,
And they called Crested
They called the foal,
And they also had
Burenka hen,
Murka dog,
And two more goats -
Sivka and Burka.

17. Didactic game "Be careful."
Purpose: to activate memory, attention, vocabulary, based on knowledge of the rules.
From the proposed poems write out words with combinations of zhi, shi:
1. They lived in a hut of siskins,
Mice, hedgehogs, swifts,
Walruses come to visit them
And giraffes and snakes.
2. Vest, animal, belly,
Giraffes, painting, lives,
Briar, tires, reeds,
Cars and pencils,
Circle, serve, make friends and live,
Hurry, make laugh,
Hiss and sew.
All combinations of ZhI and SHI
Only with the letter I write!

Didactic games in Russian language lessons

Russian language is one of the most difficult subjects in school. Therefore, it is necessary to develop students' interest in this subject even in elementary school, to make it as joyful and exciting as possible.

One of the most effective means that can arouse interest in Russian language classes is a didactic game. The purpose of the game is to arouse interest in knowledge, science, books, teachings. At primary school age, the game, along with learning, occupies an important place in the development of the child. When children are included in the situation of a didactic game, interest in learning activity increases sharply, the material being studied becomes more accessible to them, and their working capacity increases significantly.

After all, the fact that the game is part of the educational process is not a secret for anyone. The game helps to form the phonemic perception of the word, enriches the child with new information, activates mental activity, attention, and most importantly, stimulates speech. As a result, children have an interest in the Russian language. Not to mention the fact that didactic games in the Russian language contribute to the formation of the spelling vigilance of a younger student.

Over the course of several years of work in primary school, I observed that Russian language classes do not always arouse interest among students. Some kids find it boring. The unwillingness to study Russian breeds illiteracy. I thought about how to arouse interest in classes, how to improve writing literacy.

I re-read a lot of literature, analyzed my lessons and came to the conclusion that it is possible to arouse interest in the Russian language if you systematically accumulate and select fascinating material that can attract the attention of each student.

Here are some didactic games and game techniques that I use in my lessons.

1. Make words from the following letters:

2. Decipher what words are hidden here and say which word from the data is superfluous.

3. Decipher the words and say what common word they can be combined with .

4. Decipher the words and say what groups they can be divided into.

II. The game "Confusion"

Decipher the words

GONVA, ZDEVE, OKZAVL, ENNESERKSOV, STOKOVO, MOVEMENT, CHVREA (car, everywhere, station, Sunday, east, ahead, KILINBILZIVA

3 , GLUBV, DRUGV

(vaseline, cornflower, near, deep, suddenly)

(hero, hot, ready, December, road, goodbye.)

AB…IKO…, AV…OGRA…, AK…AREL…, AK…ARIU… .

(Apricot, autograph, watercolor, aquarium.)

KONBAL, NABAN, RERAB, ATOBN (balcony, banana, barrier, loaf)

KARKAMOR, LEYAKO, ZYREKKO, MOUSE (closet, rut, visor, reed)

OKGEL

ONNELDEM

NIKAZELLA

ANCILEST

SYAMETS

ANITRAK

GAZMAIN

FEEL

INERGEN

CARFELTO

YALURTSAK

RAQUARTI

(easy, stairs, shop, potatoes, slow, month, hello, saucepan, strawberry, painting, engineer, flat)

DBOE, GUROETS, AOSIN, CETO (lunch, cucumber, aspen, father)

TAMELL, ORTEM, KOMOVR, AZAND, LENAVO, OVARPAN (metal, metro, carrot, back, left, right)

TOIG, RIZKAP, ZENOYAM, VMOTI, BOZNO

(total, caprice, mayonnaise, motif, chills. )

(Rocket, story, distance, plant, solve, drawing)

(Which word is superfluous here? (Solve" is a verb, the rest is a noun)

( The game is used to consolidate any topics in the Russian language)

Purpose: To follow the formation of spelling skills, taking into account the stage of work on spelling

The choice of words depends on the topics studied or covered.0003

Nine words are written on 9 cards:

1st set: fish, blizzard, stocking, oak trees, jam, scarecrow, streams, plague, mushroom.

2nd set : entrance, warehouse, crow, hail, filming, treasure, gate, lift, sparrow.

Two people take cards in turn, the winner is the one who first has three words with the same spelling.

IV. The game "Nicknames"

Purpose: formation of the process of inflection and word formation, consolidation of phonetic and grammatical analysis of words, spelling of proper names.

Move: Form animal names from the following words:

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, RED, STAR

Write sentences.

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, GINGER, STAR

Highlight the part of the word that you used when composing nicknames (suffix, ending).

Purpose: To consolidate students' knowledge of selecting a test word, expand vocabulary, develop phonemic hearing.

Move: The postman distributes invitations to a group of children (4-5 people each).

Children determine where they are invited.

Tasks:

1. Explain spellings by choosing test words.
2. Make sentences using the given words.

Didactic task: Repeat the case endings of nouns.

Game task: Complete the story from which the bear “ran away”.

Content of the game: “Look at this story. You see it with passes. Actually, this is a story about a bear, but the bear himself escaped from it. Please return the word “bear” to the sentences, replacing the endings with questions.”

Materials: “Not every hunter had a chance to meet (whom?).... It is dangerous to approach (to whom?) Closely. I saw (who?)... at the zoo. In the forest you can watch (for whom?) for ... only from a distance. The forester told us a lot of interesting things (about whom?) about...”

Purpose of the game: to create conditions for fixing the composition of the word, to teach to see a word that differs from the rest in its composition.

Now guys, let's play a little. Three trains have arrived at the station. Each train consists of four cars. When the cars were attached to the train, they made a mistake by attaching an extra car that did not fit this train (three trains appear on the board). You guys need to find that extra car. The words written on each wagon will help you do this.

Hint. Extra words differ from other words written on the cars in their composition.

Each row gets its own train, before making a decision, discuss it with your row, determine the person who will express a common opinion.

race, swim, law, launch.

• Word, on which car is this extra?
• Extra word law, on the third carriage?
• Why?

The words written on the remaining three cars have a prefix, but the word law has no prefix.

That's right guys, well done. The extra car has been removed from the train. The train can continue on its way. Now write down all the words, except for the word law, and highlight the prefixes in them.

kettle, coffee pot, milk jug, broom.

• Which word is superfluous.
• The word broom is superfluous, since, unlike other words, it does not have
  suffixes.
• Write down the words with suffixes.

Train number 2 can continue. Well done boys.

watch, win, think, mourn.

• What a wagon, this is superfluous.
• A car with the word win, since this word does not have a prefix.
• Write down words with prefixes.

Well done guys. You did a good job.

Purpose: to create conditions for repeating the spelling of hard and soft signs.

Students are divided into two teams. One team is called "Stone", the other - "Water". The “Stone” team gets up if I read a word with a hard sign, if I read a word with a soft sign, the “Water” team gets up.

Words: congress, enter, blizzard, pours, entrance, pour, announcement, stakes, runners, detour, ears of corn, drink, filming, etc.

- Where does the beet grow? (in the garden)

- Where are the letters written? (In a notebook)

- What do we clean in the morning? (Teeth)

- Are we dressing in the cold? (fur coats)

- We love to play ... (snowballs)

- Eat for the holiday ... (pies)

(What do the words have in common? There is a suffix -to-)

In the development of a child's speech, his creative thinking, the game "Help the Pencil" is of great importance. A cheerful pencil with a poster on which the words are written comes to visit the children. The pencil thought about how best to draw a picture. “Children help the pencil, make up a story.

It turned out like this picture (on the reverse side there is a picture of summer, autumn, winter, spring).

(name not objects, but actions of objects). Yes(et), po(et), be(ret), zhi(et)…

The teacher writes down a noun on the blackboard, it is necessary to form a chain of words from it so that each subsequent noun begins with the letter that stands at the end of the previous one. Determine the gender and number of a noun
Fur coat - album - shop - legs - ... etc.

(the names of vegetables are written on the cards) The essence of the game: the first student collects masculine nouns, and the other feminine.

The teacher will put the cut out consonants on the board: t, d, c, l. Students should write down as many words as possible with these unpronounceable consonants. For example,

Game technologies allow creating favorable conditions for gaining knowledge of the Russian language.

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