Spelling Games That Make Learning Fun

Learning to spell doesn’t have to mean long lists and boring drills. In fact, some of the best spelling practice happens when kids are having so much fun they forget they’re even learning. Whether you’re a parent supporting your child at home or a teacher looking for fresh ideas, here are some creative ways to make spelling fun.

1. Use RocketSpelling.com for Game-Based Learning

If you’re looking for an interactive, self-paced, and research-backed way to make spelling fun, RocketSpelling.com is the place to start. Kids work through over 1,200 words across 120 levels, unlocking avatar items, earning points and badges, and mastering spelling patterns through interactive game play.

The site is packed with features that make spelling click: - Engaging visuals and audio reinforce correct spelling. - Instant feedback helps students learn from their mistakes. - Built-in review cycles ensure that learning sticks.

Silent letters can be puzzling for young spellers. These are letters that appear in the spelling of a word but aren't pronounced when speaking. Understanding these can boost spelling confidence and accuracy.

🤫 Common Silent Letter Patterns

1. Silent 'k' in 'kn' Words

When 'k' precedes 'n' at the beginning of a word, the 'k' is silent.

• Examples: know, knife, knock

These words are featured in Rocket Spelling's Level 6.5, helping students recognize and practice this pattern.

2. Silent 'w' in 'wr' Words

In words starting with 'wr', the 'w' is silent, and only the 'r' sound is heard.

• Examples: write, wrong, wrestle

These are also part of Level 6.5, reinforcing the silent 'w' concept.

One of the first big leaps young spellers take is learning how to turn a singular word into a plural. While some plural spelling rules are straightforward, others can leave kids (and adults!) scratching their heads.

In this post, we’ll break down simple plural spelling rules, share common exceptions, and offer kid-friendly tips for practice—perfect for parents at home or teachers in the classroom.

As students earn points, they also earn badges celebrating their efforts. These badges have been redesigned and improved this summer. Check out the new look!

Your teacher Rocket Spelling account now includes free anchor charts! These posters match the graphics from our new videos, and they are intended to serve as reference guides that students can use as they work on practice and challenge levels. 

To reflect this update, the "certificates" tab in your teacher account has now been renamed "printables," and it includes these new anchor charts as well as the usual certificates.

Here's a much-improved Rocket Spelling feature for the coming school year: the teacher dashboard will now include better data than ever before!

In past years you could see the date, time, and score of students' challenge level attempts. Now you can drill down more specifically to see which words students missed and what their misspellings were. We believe that this additional data will make Rocket Spelling an even more powerful tool.

Levels completed before this change was made will not show this enhanced data, but completed challenge levels from now on will!

The RocketSpelling.com YouTube channel is now live! Our first 11 videos are ready for you and your students' viewing pleasure, with more videos to come. Now Rocket Spelling isn't just a fun, engaging spelling game, it's a one-stop spelling resource to teach your students crucial spelling patterns.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our new content!

The 2022-2023 school year will bring huge upgrades to Rocket Spelling.

Most notably, we will be introducing Rocket Spelling videos!

Rocket Spelling is already a powerful tool to help students practice spelling in a differentiated and gamified way. Beginning next school year, Rocket Spelling will do even more...

Within the progress page of your teacher account, you can view the date(s) and time(s) when your students attempted any specific challenge level. To view this information...

If you have a new student join your class sometime during the school year, you may find yourself needing to add an additional student to your Rocket Spelling account. To do so, you don't need to renew your account. Instead, while logged into your teacher account, go to www.rocketspelling.com/addStudents/. From there, you'll be able to select the new total number of students you want to have registered to your account here on Rocket Spelling.