Spelling games for 8th grade

20 Amazing Spelling Activities for Middle School

June 29, 2022 //  by Michelle Mandel

Doubting how to spell basic words happens more often than you can imagine. Teachers and parents are faced with the fact that middle schoolers find spelling challenging. This can lead to low self-esteem and sometimes even bullying. Here are some innovative ways to help them improve their spelling skills quickly and easily!

What happens when students are writing and get stuck because they don’t know how to spell a word? Here is a great resource for educators and parents to understand the root problem.

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Students create their own decks of Go Fish cards using grouped spelling patterns.

Students play the game by collecting the same spelling pattern such as words that end with “ought, augh, or eive.”   It’s a splash of a way to review spelling.

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Did you know that 70% of reading comprehension problems are due to a lack of vocabulary?

Get on board with this activity that can help your students with spelling exercises.

Improve spelling and reading comprehension all in one resource.

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If you use Mnemonics which helps your brain to decode and retain info in a simple way using images, sentences, or words you will be learning a great skill for life. This is a great activity for 8th grade.

I alone felt Eli’s loneliness

Have a piece of the pie.

Rhythm helps your two hips move.

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5. Roll the dice

A fun spelling activity for the class or at home. Letter dice can be so much fun and just by rolling the dice children can play in teams or individually these great games to improve spelling and word formation. Time to roll and learn.

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Phonograms are letters or groups of letters that form sounds. Learners can “decode” words and focus on spelling by teaching their brains the right phonograms. Spelling and reading will be a piece of cake.

Not only will this kick start the spelling, but it is also perfect for primary grades.

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Have your middle schoolers rap their way into being great spellers. Kids love music, so why not let the juices flow where they can write their own tunes to improve their skills.

Let them practice their lines and watch them shine with Spelling Beats. They can become DJs and rappers to show off their raps in class and spelling issues will become a thing of the past!

This is a fun spelling activity they will love.

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Middle schoolers love doing class projects. A spelling wall with a list of spelling words is just what each classroom could use.

These are groups of words that are printed or written in a big font and can be easily seen from all points of the class or even displayed in the hall.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling opened up a new world to young readers and learning new words like beadily and exasperation made things a bit tricky. But, by getting your students hooked on excerpts of stories they will slowly become good spellers too. The magic of reading will bring the words to life and improves their reading skills.

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Middle school students should be learning approximately 400-500 new sight words per year.

Now, we read less and learning sight words has declined. Get back on track and help our middle schoolers with some super sight word activities that anyone can do at home or in the classroom.

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One of the best ways to improve our spelling is to use all different skills. With these hands-on activities, 6th-8th graders can practice these techniques daily while having fun.

From Hangman “High” to learning how to use Word Families to loads of spelling games both on and offline.

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Take 5 and have a break playing some popular game online to improve your spelling. 6th - 8th graders will love these fun activities that can be played alone or in the classroom using a digital whiteboard. Great fun and a nice way to start or end the day.

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Get out your spelling list from 6th-8th and create your own flashcards. Test your family and friends to see how well they can spell off the spelling list. A fun way to encourage memory recall and retention. Spelling memory activities can increase brain power.

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Get out your colorful highlighter and markers and write the prefixes and suffixes or the key letter groups that you are forgetting - highlighting them is a fantastic way of studying. Use Coloured paper to enhance your work.

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Music is a great tool and this is a spelling mistakes song that is great for 6th graders to help reinforce their skills.

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75% of all the words used in children’s books come from DOLCH lists.

Find the list that corresponds to your child and play a variety of games like Sight Word Throw and Let’s go fishing. You can print flashcards and set phrases to work within a fun and entertaining way of doing spelling practice.

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Understanding Morphology can help to teach vocabulary.

Especially if you have the students color code the flashcards to help them learn.

Students really need to know how to dissect words inside and out.

Make some amazing flashcards and have fun.

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Middle school is the best age to really improve your spelling and become a spelling buff. With Spelling Stars, you can play games, get lists and have a blast while practicing your skills.

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Nonsense poems are great to help students relax a little while learning or revising phonetics and phonic instruction. The use of these silly words is very beneficial and effective in teaching decoding spelling patterns and sounds.

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Make your own game for your classroom. Have the students create games using the templates from Flippity. These are colorful templates where you can make quizzes, trivia, or interactive worksheets to improve spelling.

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8th Grade Spelling Words for Students to Practice

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By 8th grade, a student's vocabulary is extensive. However, there are still words that students can work on to boost spelling skills. Explore this list of 8th grade spelling words to help your students build their vocabulary.

8th Grade Spelling Words for Language Arts

In 8th grade, you’re getting your students ready for high school. This means that their language arts vocab needs to be strong to be ready for those research papers and essays. Prepare your students by trying these 8th grade spelling words in spelling games and tests.

8th Grade Spelling Words for Math and Science

When you think of math and science, spelling words might not be your first thought. However, having a solid foundation of definitions and proper spelling of math and science words can make life easy for students. To give them a leg up, try these spelling words for 8th grade.

8th Grade Spelling Words for Social Sciences

To round out your 8th grade spelling word list, try a few fun social science words. From the Civil War to the early civilizations, these 8th grade spelling words cover the gambit.

60 spelling words 8th graders

8th Grade Spelling Sentences

Some words that might come up in subjects or in a spelling bee can get a little tricky. See how several of these words are used in a sentence.

• She was surprised by the acknowledgement that she received for her work with children.
• The acoustics in the stadium were amazing for the concert.
• She had a gnawing feeling that something was wrong.
• It made her sad that her friends deceived her by playing a trick on her.
• It took a great amount of force to get the car to move.
• She tried to calculate the velocity of the car.
• The timeline was listed in chronological order.
• Women's suffrage is a famous women's rights movement.
• Many believe that a utopian society is impossible.
• The Great Depression was a time of suffering in the United States.

Spelling Words for 8th Grade

By the time your students get to 8th grade, their vocabulary is expansive. However, finding ways to boost their speaking and writing skills is never a bad idea. To expand their thinking, you might try some journal writing exercises.

Lesson-game in Russian "Grammar Sherlocks" (grade 8)

Lesson-game in 8's classes

"Grammar Sherlocks".

Targets:

1) generalization, systematization of what was studied in the first quarter;

2) development student literacy;

3) increase students' interest in the lessons of the Russian language and literature.

Tasks:

1) secure purchased students' skills and abilities;

2) activate spelling and punctuation vigilance;

3) promote development of the emotional, intellectual and motivational spheres of the personality of students

Methodical tricks: competition of teams, independent work of students, entertaining tasks.

Equipment : sheets movement through the stations, envelopes with tasks, pens.

Lesson progress.

Three teams of 8 "a", 8 "b" and 8 "c" are collected in a certain place. One of the teachers explains rules: you need to go through several places, complete tasks in each of them, having come to the destination with the highest score.

Give an introduction about the literary character Sherlock Holmes:

Teacher: Why Is our event called Grammar Sherlocks? Because the tasks will associated with both language and literature. Do you know who Sherlock Holmes is? This is a literary character created by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. His works dedicated to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the famous London private investigator are considered classics of the detective genre. Today you are also for some time you will be detectives and will travel to different places. Let's get started!

1 station: Station-1 (located on watch) (correct answers are highlighted)

Task:

is a phrase:

a) impenetrable forests

b) continued days

c) along buildings

phrases is the main word incorrectly defined?

a) run not looking

b) serving people

c) the art of persuasion (con)

d) very cheerful

3. Specify a sentence where there are phrases with all three types of connection:

a) From the raised the sun vanished with a wind of sand.

b) Suddenly blew wind and tore off people's hats.

clear water, the duck swam along the bay.

phrases in which a mistake was made in the use of a preposition and case noun, correct mistakes:

a) refused friendship

b) did not respond to I call (did not respond to the call)

c) to think about question (think about the question / thought about the question)

d) pay for fare (pay fare/pay fare)

5.Specify a sentence in which there are both coordinating and subordinating connections:

a) Smart and handsome, yes, it's useless.

b) In the forest, not hushed, the birds sang.

c) Soon the wind passed into a hurricane.

what part of speech expresses the subject:

groaned, creaked. (pronoun)

7. Find common sentence:

a) They were happy.

b) It was getting dark early.

c) The day has come.

d) You, nightingale, shut up.

sentence is the predicate expressed by a phraseological phrase?

a) Who could guess!

b) Master's work fears.

c) The horses raced at full speed.

d) Such a question could confound.

Should a dash be replaced with a hyphen?

a) Picking mushrooms - an occupation that requires skill.

b) Unknown the artist-fatalist captured a picture of the Poltava battle.

c) Writer Somov - satirist, but he also has lyrical stories.

10. Find a sentence where the predicate is - compound verb and highlight it.

a) Our house has become dark and impregnable.

b) Soon the teacher will sum up the results of the quarter.

c) Why did you stop talking to me about important matters?

Station-2 (located in library)

1. K Which poem by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov fits this illustration? ("Angel")

2. Heroine poems "Gypsies" and a modern singer. They have the same name. Which? (Zemfira)

3. Image what bird of prey did Pushkin use in the poem "The Prisoner"? Why? (Predatory bird - eagle. He does not like to live in captivity, he needs freedom.)

4. From What poem are these lines and who is the author? (M.Yu. Lermontov "Testament")

But if one of them is alive,

Tell me what to write lazy,

That the regiment was sent on a campaign

And so that they would not expect me.

5. Remember who and why needed gray paper, wine, stove soot and matches? (M.Yu. Lermontov to write the poem "The Prisoner")

6. How was the name of the noble estate of the Pushkins in the Pskov province? (Mikhailovskoye)

7. Insert and correct write the missing words:

Gypsies in a noisy crowd

By ________________ roam. (Bessarabia)

Today they are over the river

In tents ________________ spend the night. (tattered)

overnight stay

And _____________ sleep under heaven; (peaceful)

Between cart wheels,

____________ carpets… (half-hung)

8. Write years of life of A.S. Pushkin and M.Yu. Lermontov (1799-1837 and 1814-1841)

9. Name the name and surname of the girl whom M.Yu. Lermontov dedicated his poem "She not proud beauty…” (Varvara Lopukhina) *Two extra points if name the patronymic (Alexandrovna)

10. Let's remember what you went through even earlier: What is the name of the hero of the tragedy Aeschylus, who was chained to a rock? (Prometheus)

Station-3 (Located in buffet)

Insert missing letters and make a word from the missing letters - the place where you need move on.

Postal man..he sat on a hard sofa and drank cheap coffee, looking at his reflection.. samovar, standing on a brocade tablecloth .. chocolate color. The man was famous .. glutton and, despite heartburn and a diseased liver .., ate too much pr..nicknames with ..condensed milk. Having eaten, a man, valiantly shaking his man .. oh, started dancing h..rosary. However, he was far from being a decent dancer and, having made a not entirely successful jump, he took up another matter. The man began to compose ball..hell.

U-penalty

h-decent

and scatters

T-Knowed

E-Check

L-BALLADS

B-HEARS

S-MISTER

K-HELLOCE AD -reflection

I-gingerbread

Station-4 (Located in the teacher's room).

After reading passages poems, you need to specify their title and author.

1. Turns white sail lonely

In the blue fog of the sea!..

What is he looking for in the country distant?

What did he throw at the edge native?. .

Lermontov "Sail"

2. covers the sky,

Windy whirlwinds;

She is like a beast howling,

It will cry like a child,

Then it will cry on a dilapidated roof

Suddenly it will rustle with straw,

Like a traveler belated,

There will be a knock on our window.

Pushkin "Winter Evening"

3. I go out alone I'm on the road;

Siliceous through the mist the path is shining;

The night is quiet. Desert listens to God,

And a star with a star He speaks.

Lermontov "I go out alone on the road"

4. Forget worries and sorrows,

Ride away without a goal on a horse

In the fog and meadow distances,

Towards the night and the moon!

Summer evening block

5. Frost and sun; wonderful day!

You are still dozing, friend lovely -

It's time, beauty, wake up:

open closed by bliss eyes

Towards the north Avrora,

Be the star of the north!

Pushkin "Winter Morning"

proud beauty

seduces young men alive,

She doesn't drive behind you

Crowd mute admirers.

Lermontov “She is not proud beauty”

Station-5 (located in room 244)

collect a portrait of a writer or poet in parts and name it. (Selected portraits of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol)

Teacher : Well, guys, you ran nicely through the stations today, improved their knowledge in two subjects at once. I wish that knowledge is always found together with you and helping you!

By at the end of the competition, calculate the points and announce the places.

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?

Sex + wasps = stripes

Number + wasps = colossi

Ox + wasps-hair

Tooth + b + i \u003d teeth

Oak + b + i \u003d oak

(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.

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

4. "Choose three words" (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.

Nine words are written on 9 cards:

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

Purpose: To consolidate students' knowledge of the selection of 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.

-9000-9000-0010 Du-ksi

Tasks:

Explain the spheres, selecting checks.

6. Game "Ball"

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

Game task: Help the proposals to 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 Mom 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.

Contents of the game:

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

Materials:

Cards

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

Without a primer and grammar ... they do not study mathematics ...

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 the names of animals 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).

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, mother...
• Writing a dictation, letter,...
• 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.
From the proposed poems write out 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, make friends and live,
Hurry, make laugh,
Hiss and sew.
All combinations 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 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,

Tree leaves (giraffe)
Quatrain:
I sewed a fur coat - I sewed a skirt,
I sewed a hat - I 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 handle
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 which 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.

The usual letter has grown suddenly, 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 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: on the board are written 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.

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