From Kathy Schrock's Website and Others

It must be spelling bee season, because I see bees buzzing everywhere. The 79th annual National Spelling Bee finals will be in Washington D.C. May 31- June 1. The movie "Akeelah and the Bee" is now in movie theaters. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is playing on Broadway. And a new book outlining the history of the National Bee ("American Bee'" by James Maguire) just arrived in bookstores. These online spelling bee games are my contribution to the current spelling bee Zeitgeist.

Bonus.com: Spelling Bee
http://tinyurl.com/lo3x6

Pick from falling letters to spell the word on your screen. As you progress from easy mode to normal, the letters start moving faster. In hard mode, there are no starter letters, and you need to spell the entire word that matches your picture. With each correct word, you are rewarded with a little animation, and your word moves over to the finished work space. Spelling words are at elementary grade level and include "lion," "robot" and "zebra."

Catch the Spelling
http://www.manythings.org/cts/

Interesting Things for ESL Students has a huge collection of spelling games, which are also pretty interesting for those studying English as a first language. These games also feature falling letters, but this time you catch them with a paddle, much like the popular arcade game Breakout. Select from word categories (birds, kitchen, body parts), difficulty, level of hints provided, or grade level (such as Dolch site words for kindergarten through third grade.)

FunBrain: Spell Check
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/

Choose the one word in each set of four that is spelled incorrectly, and then spell it correctly. If you get 100% on all twenty problem sets, you can add your name to the Leader Board. Easy level is for elementary grades with words such as "table" and "chair." Hard level is for middle school kids with words such as "mischief" and "shepherd."

Spelling City