Blind Spelling, Camaraderie, Elvis lives

Students divide into teams. 
One player (speller) from each team comes to the board. 
Speller puts on a blindfold. 
Referee says a word.
The players race to spell the word as quickly as they can on the board. 
Team can help after 20 seconds.

First team to spell ten readable words correctly wins.

Cut up these words into piles of individual letters

give them randomly to the students and get them to stand in the correct order to spell the words.

Afterwards, discuss the words and try to write sentences using them.

16 letters for 16 students

characterization, multiprogramming, misunderstanding, enthusiastically, hydroelectricity, reinterpretation, responsibilities, authoritarianism, Christianization, environmentalist, creditworthiness, administratively, counterbalancing, undiscriminating,  misappropriation, collectivisation, contraindication, disqualification, simultaneousness, environmentalism, remilitarization,  incomprehensible

15 letters for 15 students

procrastination, personification, characteristics, desertification, congratulations, alphabetisation, methamphetamine, interdependence,, accomplishments, unprepossessing, acknowledgeable, Americanization, acknowledgement, prognostication, antepenultimate, acclimatization, maneuverability, rationalisation, mischievousness, parthenogenesis, acclimatisation, discombobulated, trustworthiness, carnivorousness, misapprehension, nationalisation, insubordination, kindheartedness

10 letters for ten students

California, everything, aboveboard, Washington, basketball, weathering, characters, literature, perfection, volleyball, depression, homecoming, technology, maleficent, watermelon, appreciate, relaxation, convection, abominable, government, salmonella, strawberry, aberration, retirement, television, contraband, Alzheimers, silhouette, friendship, loneliness, punishment, university, Cinderella, confidence, restaurant, abstinence, blackboard, discipline, renovation, helicopter, generation, adaptation, skateboard, lightboard, Apocalypse, understand, leadership, revolution, insulation

9 letters for nine students

identical, chocolate, Christmas, beautiful, happiness, Wednesday, challenge, celebrate, adventure, important, consonant, Christian, dangerous, masculine, Australia, irregular, something, knowledge, Elizabeth, macaronic, pollution, President, wrestling, pineapple, adjective, secretary, undefined, Halloween, Amerindic, ambulance, alligator, seventeen, affection, congruent, marijuana, community, different, vegetable, influence, structure, invisible, wonderful, packaging, provoking, nutrition, crocodile, education

8 letters for 8 students

thirteen, Thursday, princess, assonant, thousand, fourteen, language, chipotle, American, business,  elephant, children, birthday, mountain, feminine, football, kindness, syllable, abdicate, treasure, Virginia, envelope, strength, together, memories, darkness, February, sandwich, calendar, bullying, equation, violence, marriage, building, internal, function, November, drooping, abortion, Victoria, squirrel, tomorrow, champion, sentence, personal, remember, daughter, hospital, ordinary

7 letters for 7 students

perfect, Tuesday, country, pumpkin, special, America, freedom, picture, husband, monster, seventy, Melissa, nothing, sixteen, morning, journey, history, Georgia, fifteen, amazing, rihanna, January, dolphin, teacher, forever, kitchen, holiday, Madison, welcome, Jupiter, justice, diamond, courage, hundred, silence, someone, science, revenge, leonine, harmony, problem, awesome, penguin, youtube, blanket, yielder, England, dancing

6 letters for 6 students

purple, orange, family, twelve, silver, thirty, donate, people, future, Heaven, banana, Africa, Monday, office, nature, eleven, Mumbai, animal, twenty, snitch, Rachel, Friday, Father, yellow, poetry, August, broken, potato, Sunday, circle, school, breath, moment, circus, person, scarce, London, energy, sister, spring, change, monkey, system, secret, pirate, turtle, ninety

Write letters randomly on the board

Students divde into small groups

Call out the three words together

First team to write three words correctly wins a point
If you have the right number of students, you can give the letters out as sheets or cars an get students race to form the words as in Camaraderie.

4-letter anagrams

acre
care
race

demo
dome
mode

diet
edit
tide

dare
dear
read



5-letter anagrams

alert
alter
later


coats
coast
tacos

below
bowel
elbow

capes
paces
space

6-letter anagrams

airmen
marine
remain

antler
learnt
rental

arches
chaser
search

asleep
elapse
please

caller
cellar
recall

desert
deters
rested

enlist
listen
silent

7-letter anagrams

alerted
altered
related

earnest
eastern
nearest

capitol
optical
topical

aligned
dealing
leading

claimed
decimal
medical

8-letter anagrams

lameness
nameless
salesman

construe
counters
recounts