Printing Spelling Games for Children

Improve reading, writing and spelling skills using spelling games for children - the fun alternative to worksheets.
Try our spelling games at home or at school. For 2 players or small groups.
Choose from a range of spelling games for children:

Card games for learning grammar e.g. homonyms, antonyms & synonyms

Boardgames for practising e.g. the alphabet, phonics etc.

For those aged 4 upwards it is important that spelling games for children introduce the sounds of the letters and letter blends. These are the building blocks for making words and without phonic knowledge the later learning of spellings will be much slower. Children learn through the visual appearance of words and through the sounds of the letters and letters blends. Spelling games for kids should harness both these senses, vision and sound, and ideally also a tactile element as this covers all the bases in the sensory routes used for acquiring literacy skills.

Spelling games for children focus on phonics, word building skills, writing spellings, memory skills and more. These games come in many formats for key stage 1 & 2 literacy: spelling card games, spelling board games, spelling games with dice, computer spelling games etc. At home as well, spelling games for children such as ‘Scrabble’, an old family favourite, help to reinforce children’s spelling knowledge and allow them to learn new words and spellings in a relaxed and fun atmosphere.