Prepare for Spelling Bees: Resources to Improve Your Skills
Want to be a spelling superstar? Look no further! Spelling Words Well offers a wealth of resources to help you and your loved ones become impeccable spellers. From word lists and worksheets to fun games and activities, we've got it all
Need some spelling bee words and sentences in a hurry? Looking for quality spelling bee materials that are easy to use?
You won't find simpler, more affordable tools than these eBooks! And the best news is, they're available for immediate download!
What's Inside?
I've personally selected 600 bee words for grades 3-5 and another 600 spelling bee words for grades 6-8. The words are arranged from easiest to most difficult. To make the words really easy to use, I've written a brief, age-appropriate, classroom-friendly sentence for each spelling word!
Each eBook contains:
- 600 grade-appropriate words and sentences
- Sentences arranged in order of difficulty
- An alphabetical list of words used in the eBook
- Handy recording chart to use during the bee
- BIG time saver for Spelling Bee Organizers!
Free Preschool Games & Activities
for Fun and Learning!
Usually the kids with strong, early language skills are the ones who grow up to be great readers and fantastic spellers!
Let's continue to work together to build not only strong readers, but also strong spellers and language learners...of ALL ages! Read through this directory of free preschool games. Choose the ones that seem best for your child or student. Be sure to send me your comments about these resources, or any others you'd like to see here at Spelling Words Well.
Free Preschool Games
Memory Matches - Use a familiar format to give kids lots of practice in matching pictures the beginning letters. Our free printable playing cards for the entire alphabet makes it easy!
One Sock, Two Socks – Super-simple game-like lesson for teaching the correct spelling of regular plural nouns . Fits CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1c (Regular plural nouns)
What's Missing? - Teach preprimer sight words. It's never too early for kids to master these important words. Teach memory, reading and spelling skills with these simple formats!
Free Alphabet Games - "Secret Letters" and "Order, Please!" Two easy games to play with a group of early learners. In the first game, kids guess what letters are taped on their backs. In the second, they learn about alphabetical order.
Free Preschool Games for Phonics - 3 simple adaptations of familiar formats with a phonics twist.
Preschool Computer Game: Let your child sound out 3 words in each group, decide the first letter of all the words in the set, then click the big button to check his answer!
Which One? and Alphabetical Objects: Two free preschool activities that you can do with your child around the house, in the car, or in the classroom. The only supplies required are a few everyday items.
Stand Up, Sit Down - You and your kids are sure to love this game that asks kids to listen to consonant sounds and to move! Tell students that you will be calling out pairs of similar words. Remind them to listen very carefully to the sounds at the beginning of each word. If the words are the same, children will remain seated, but if the words are different, they should stand. Lots of listening fun!
A Pickle or a Tickle: Fun preschool game for children! Your students will need to listen carefully to initial consonant sounds as they play these entertaining games.
Clip Count: A fun preschool counting game that teaches number words, too! This is a great game to play at school with partners. You can also play it with your child at home.
Letter Lane - A phomenic awareness board game that features beginning consonant sounds for the letters b,d,f and m. No reading is necessary.
Consonant Clues - Classic game format, adaptable for many language skills. Examples included.
ABC Pop-Up - One of the simplest free preschool games around. That makes it perfect for young students and busy preschool teachers!
Free Preschool Worksheets, Word Lists and Flash Cards
Rhyme Time Two cute printables to give early learners practice in identifying rhyming words with short and long vowel sounds.
Kindergarten sight words: A list of preprimer and primer sight words from the Dolch service list, along with several ways to practice the words with your young students.
Kindergarten Vocabulary Words - 175 engaging, empowering vocabulary words, in alphabetical order, that every kindergartner should be learning. Use our convenient printable page. A second list features 100 of the words in helpful categories such as shapes, feelings, community helpers and more.
ABC Phonics Poem - A fun and funny way to learn about initial sounds! Your kids will love learning about a camel that coached a canary, the duck who dined by a dock, the walrus who waddled to the water, and many more!
Phonics Flash Cards - Cute pictures and letters help to teach initial sounds.
Sight Words Flash Cards - Help your students learn Dolch preprimer and primer words!
Who Wants It? - A fun sing-song activity to help kids listen to match initial sounds to the correct letters.
Alphabet printables - Worksheets for ABC practice, free and ready-to-print.
ABC Fill-Ins: Two pages give students practice in completing the alphabet, then finding letters that spell a few kid-friendly words.
Letter Lines - Two fun worksheets that ask kids to read, copy and spell some simple three and four letter words. Perfect for kids who are eager to learn to read!
Circle Sounds Maze - Kids find words that begin with B, then color their way through a fun maze! See this maze for D words.
What's Last? Two cute pages in which kids need to say the names of some common objects and identify their ending sounds.
Phonics Worksheets – Write simple words with short vowel sounds
Picture This – Phonics Game. Students try to cover the most pictures as they identify short vowel sounds
Printable Worksheets for Kids
This collection of free printable worksheets for kids focuses on spelling and language skills, especially for Grade 1 and Grade 2. You'll find great pages below to cover alphabetical order, beginning and ending sounds, word families and more.
Printable Worksheets for Kids :
First Grade & Second Grade
Literacy Worksheets for Early Learners: 3 fun reproducibles your kids can customize as they finish sentences and illustrate them, too! Kids tell which two activities they would like to do and which animal they prefer. For Gr K-1.
Worksheets for 1st Grade: 2 fun spelling practice pages! Students will practice initial consonants and visual discrimination. For Gr K-1.
Rhyme Time: Two cute printables to give early learners practice in identifying rhyming words with short and long vowel sounds. For Gr. K-2.
Easy phonics worksheets: 5 free first grade worksheets provide practice with simple short vowel words. Here's a peek at part of one of the pages. Each page is bit different. Grades K-1.
Don't miss our collection of Free Phonics Worksheets!
First Grade Worksheets : A special collection for first graders, but some can work with kids a bit older and younger. Try them all! Grades K-2.
First Grade Spelling Puzzles: Early learners love to solve our simple crossword and word search puzzles! These fun formats provide lots of enjoyable spelling practice. Grades 1-2
People puzzler page: Students complete word spellings of Dolch nouns. Great practice for students in Grades 1-2.
A Fun Day: 1st grade reading and spelling worksheet: Give your students reading and spelling practice with this customized story. Grades 1-2.
Start the Picture and Winter Fun: 2 free printable worksheets for kids provide practice with beginning consonants and consonant blends. Cute clip art to keep your child interested. Grades K-1
Word Scrambles: 2 worksheets with sets of familiar words to boost kids' vocabulary and spelling skills. Scrambled words provide a fun, puzzle-y format for a nice change! For grades 1-3.
Word family worksheets: Worksheet and booklet templates so your students can practice spelling any word family anytime! Grades 1-2.
Number word practice: 3 printable worksheets to practice spelling and simple addition and subtraction facts. The fun twists I've added will make your kids want to finish each page correctly! Gr K-1.
Homework worksheets: 2 pages that are especially simple to do at home. String the letters to complete sight words, or find the hidden color words and write them correctly inside the crayons. Gr. K-2.
2nd Grade Worksheets : A fun collection of printable worksheets for kids in second grade. Some pages will benefit kids a bit older or younger, so be sure to check them out! For grades 1-3.
Lots of Leaves: Kids practice identifying long and short vowels sounds in these free printable worksheets. Grades 1-2.
A Zoo-y Day! A delightful way for students to practice reading and spelling as they write their very own goofy story about a trip to the zoo. Every story will be different!
Fill-In the Family: Kids identify words in the same word family within a sentence, then add another word from the same family to complete the sentence. Great way to practice reading comprehension and spelling! Gr. 2
Mini Word Search puzzles: Try this super-fun way to practice some of the most commonly misspelled words in elementary grades with these printable worksheets for kids. Grades 2-3
2nd Grade Phonics Worksheets : "Finish the Word" and "Match the Word Endings" are two colorful pages for basic phonics practice. Here at Spelling Words Well, we believe that learning SHOULD be fun and engaging!
Be sure to check out my collection of Fun Spelling Worksheets for grades 1 and 2.
You'll find lots of all-new pages, not on the website, to help boost your first and second graders' spelling and phonics skills!
*Grade levels are subjective. Be sure to review several worksheets to find the ones that are best for your child or students.
Easy Crossword Puzzles for Kids
Try several from my brand new collection! Here are some of my favorites.
Find the Misspellings Crossword: Kids love to find mistakes! To complete this page, they'll need to find one misspelled word in each sentence and write it correctly in the puzzle.
Scrambled Animals Crossword: Unscramble the names of 15 well-known animals and write them correctly into the puzzle. It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys!
The Deluxe Gigantic
Spelling Bee Word Lists
These expertly-compiled word lists are available in two versions:
1) The Gigantic Word Lists with words and sentences only
2) The Deluxe Gigantic Word List with the same words, and sentences, PLUS definitions, parts of speech and language of origin
Both Spelling Bee Word Lists are available in three volumes: Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6, and Grades 7-8. (If you also require words and sentences for Grades 1-2, please consider my Young Spellers Word List.)
No matter your choice, you'll save loads of time with our grade-level spelling bee word lists!
Best of all, the Gigantic Spelling Bee Word Lists are available for immediate download!
When you secure your copy of these word lists, you'll be instantly ready for this year's bees!It's All About the Word Lists!
Both the versions of our Gigantic Word Lists contain carefully selected words, appropriate for each grade level. (These words do not appear in our other eBooks.)
Each word list begins with a few easy words, to help your spellers feel at ease. Then words become gradually more difficult, with a majority of words at the grade levels indicated. The lists end with substantially more difficult words to challenge your top spellers.
For example, the last 30-40 words in the Grade 5-6 list are words at the 7th-10th grade levels.
This year, you'll have access to BOTH the Excel and PDF versions for one low price.
Two Options:
Option 1: Gigantic Word Lists
This is the original list (with a few updates) first published in 2016. In each volume, you'll receive:
- 400 spelling bee words for two grades
- A brief sentence that helps convey the meaning of each word
- 20 challenge words, each with a definition, part of speech, sentence and language of origin
- Pronunciations for some of the more difficult words
- An alphabetical listing of all 400 words
(All lists come in both Excel and Pdf.)
Option 2: Deluxe Gigantic Spelling Bee Word Lists
In the Deluxe version, you'll receive the same words, sentences and other features listed above, PLUS:
- a definition for each word that matches the sentence
- the part of speech that matches the sentence
- the language of origin for each word
If you're conducting a large-scale school wide or regional spelling bee, you'll probably want these extra features.
Download Free Sample Pages
Download free sample pages from all three levels of the Gigantic Word Lists.
Then download free sample pages from the Deluxe Gigantic Lists, and decide which lists are best for you.
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Word lists are sold separately by 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 grade levels. They are also sold as a set at a reduced rate.
NOTE: If you require word lists that are separated by grade, please see the 300 Spelling Word Lists that use some of the same words in these Gigantic Lists.
See the YELLOW Box to purchase the Gigantic Word Lists.
See the BLUE Box below to purchase the DELUXE Gigantic Word Lists.
(See more detailed ordering information below.)
Gigantic Word Lists
Words & Sentences Only
Save! Buy All 3 Sets - 1200 Words with Sentences, and 60 Challenge Words with definitions, parts of speech, sentences and language of origin
Grades 3-4
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Grades 5-6
Grades 7-8
Please Note: The prices shown are for the downloadable Gigantic Spelling Bee Word List eBooks only. The books are currently not available in hard copy.
Deluxe Gigantic Spelling Word Lists:
Words, Parts of Speech, Sentences, Definitions, & Language of Origin
Save! Buy All 3 Sets - 1200 Words with Sentences, and 60 Challenge Words with definitions, parts of speech, sentences and language of origin
Multiple School $159 Buy Now
Grades 3-4
Grades 5-6
Grades 7-8