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Fly Swatter Spelling
Young scholars practice spelling words by swatting fake insects. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students participate in a spelling game in which teams must spell a word correctly one letter at a time. Young scholars may fix...
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How Do You Spell That? Jeopardy
This spelling PowerPoint enables students to spell words that end in -s, -ed and -ing. In this PowerPoint, students play an interactive jeopardy game where they must spell each root word correctly and add the given endings.
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A Christmas Carol
Second graders examine the life and times of mid-1800s England in Dicken's time. They compare/contrast Christmas today and during Dicken's day, discuss the book's characters, play a game from the 1800s, and read a Reader's Theater...
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Respect for Animals
Students discuss importance of acting responsibly when caring for pets, reflect upon quote, "All Living Beings Have the Right to Respect and Kindness," read story Anastasia Wants a Rabbit and answer comprehension questions, role play...
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Mysterious E: Makes Space a Brave Place
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and words containing a_e. In small groups they play a board game, then spell words containing the a_e letter pattern using letter manipulatives. Students read the...
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Roll the Dice
Students practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
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Gregory Griggs
Second graders examine a "Gregory Griggs" poster and related vocabulary. They listen to the nursery rhyme to discover how many wigs Gregory Griggs owns and play listening and rhyming games. Afterward, they pretend they are Gregory...
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Pictures For Sorts
In this literacy activity, students recognize the picture that coincides with each picture. A game could be made by mixing the words and pictures.
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Recess
In this word search worksheet, students locate sixteen words related to recess. The word list includes basketball, climbing, games, running, and slide.
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I Spy Blends
In this phonics worksheet, students practice matching consonant blends, with a partner, in a game of I Spy Blends where they match a set of consonant blend cards to a variety of pictures.
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Dolch Work Bingo
Students play Bingo using Dolch sight words on their game cards. In this sight word lesson, students create their own Bingo card, filling it out with dolch words from their provided list. When a student has gotten Bingo, the...
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Capitalization
Students investigate the concept of capitalization by reading relevant text and finding supporting details and facts. In this capitalization lesson, students read chapter seven in Working With Words and share predictions about the...
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Welcome to Seuss Squares
This PowerPoint reviews works by Dr. Seuss. The interactive game requires players to answer plot questions about Fox in Socks, Cat in the Hat, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
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Contraction Jeopardy
This word study PowerPoint addresses how to construct contractions. In this PowerPoint, students participate in a game of Jeopardy where they must click on a specific question and form the given contraction with a word.
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Countries & Capitals Match-Ups Lesson Plan
Students design a matching game in order to study the capitols, flags, and facts about many countries. They decorate a game box and fill it with game cards that contain facts about the countries that they are studying. They use art...
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Comprehension Questions for The Best Way to Play
In this comprehension questions for The Best Way to Play activity, students read the book, then answer 11 comprehension questions about the story about video games written by Bill Cosby.
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Lesson Exchange: Is This A Real Word? (Elementary, Reading/Writing)
Young readers practice looking words up in the dictionary. This lesson describes a simple, yet engaging, game that can be played as a whole-class activity.
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First Day of GT
Young scholars listen to and discuss a poem about a gifted student. They discuss what being gifted means to them and their families, and participate in a game that helps students to bond with each other.
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On a Roll With Digraphs
Students practice building and spelling words with digraphs. After discussing what digraphs are and how they change the spelling and produnciation of words, they create a dice game and play by spelling words containing common digraphs.
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Speech Practice: "OR" Bingo
In this speech practice worksheet, students play a game of bingo, using the card with pictures whose names contain "or." Worksheet contains 2 bingo template cards.
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Speech: RL Bingo
In this speech bingo worksheet, students play the game of bingo using words and pictures with the "rl" blend. Worksheet is a set of 4 bingo cards.
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Reading Comprehension-"The Birthday Game"
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a passage titled "The Birthday," then complete a set of 5 multiple choice comprehension questions.
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I Want a Red Block!
In this trace and write activity, students trace and write words that represent games and toys for young children. Students trace and write 12 lines.
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Fictional Characters
Students explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini book...