Submitted by LaTonja Taplin

Suggested Grades

1-4

Objective

Students will learn to spell and recognize vocabulary words and/or spelling words with at least 95 percent accuracy.

Materials

• chairs
• spelling words

Method

To involve my students in learning to spell and/or recognize words, I have them play musical chairs with spelling words.

• Teacher spells a word from the spelling list. Then says “Spell!” which begins the game.
• Students walk around chairs spelling the word.
• When they finish spelling the word they find a seat. The person without a seat is out of the game.
• Note: I usually leave all chairs in so no one is left out at the end.