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Drama Warm Ups and Circle Games

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Circle games, energetic games, calming games, exit games. Whether used as ice breakers, warm ups, or exit strategies, or used in drama classes or content areas, the 28 games detailed in this packet deserve a spot in your curriculum...
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Grammar Games and Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises. 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amazing Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 2nd
This packet, the second in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on amazing animals, contains exercises and activities designed for the ESL/ELD classroom.
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Curated OER

Mystery Word Wall Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Practice using words found on the classroom word wall, in vocabulary lists, or on spelling lists with your class. Young readers use clues to find the mystery word in the room. They can tally the points earned from identifying words...
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Curated OER

Peace Bridge Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine the border between the United States and Canada. As a class, they are introduced to the purpose of the Peace Bridge which is located from New York into Canada. In groups, they use the internet to research the...
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Curated OER

Board Game: Rhymes With, Begins With, Ends With, Opposite Of

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts board game worksheet, students play a game with one or more classmates. Each space landed on requires students to say a word that rhymes with, begins with, ends with, or is the opposite of a given word or letter.
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Jessica Winston

Tacky and the Winter Games

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Helen Lester's wonderfully wacky, Tacky and the Winter Games, is the core text featured in a resource packet that includes a prediction exercise, an activity menu, vocabulary flash cards, and book review worksheet. A great way to cheer...
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Curated OER

Syllable Challenge Ball Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Toss the ball! Help readers listen for the number of syllables in a word. They play an interactive ball game where they toss the ball to a peer and state a word using the number of syllables called out by the teacher. This is a great...
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Reading Resource

Build-A-Fence Long Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Build your class's knowledge with a vowel game. With a list of code words for each vowel, kids begin to construct fences with the words that share long vowel sounds.
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University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Seussville

The Cat in the Hat Birthday Tic-Tac-Toe!

For Students K - 2nd
Play a classic game of tic-tac-toc with a Seuss-ical twist. Instead of X's and O's, the game pieces are either hats and cakes or hats and cats. Kids color and cut out their game pieces before sitting down for a game or two.
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Teresa Evans

Bird and Shark Rhyming Match: r Controlled Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
What do a bird and a shark have in common? Work on r-controlled vowels with a phonics matching game. Kids examine the 12 words on a game board, then add the card that has the correct matching r-controlled vowel. 
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ABCya

Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Make a game out of word parts. Pupils work in pairs to advance along the board. One partner reads a sentence from a card, and the other identifies the correct affix that fits with a word in that sentence.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Analysis, Analogy Basketball

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Give grammar instruction a boost with a basketball-themed game all about analogies! Working in pairs, learners quiz each other's analogy knowledge testing how many they can complete and earn the most points.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Affix Match

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Play a quick game of memory, but with a grammatical twist! Learners match the affixes to their meanings.
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Curated OER

Cross-Curricular Games

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in exploring and examining several cross-curricular, hands-on games that encourage active learning and exercise at the same time. They assess games like Freeze Tag, Parts of Speech games and a healthy heart game, etc.
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Free Reading

Letter Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Turn spelling practice into a game with this letter card template. Including domino-sized cards for all of the upper- and lower-case letters, as well as common digraphs, this resource can be used in a variety of ways and is a...
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Reading Resource

Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
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Reading Resource

Flip It Down - Advanced Code Reading Game

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
A fun twist on bingo helps your kids learn their vowel sounds. As you call out each word, kids flip the tabs on a gameboard to cover their words and be the first to cover them all.
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English Club

Pronunciation: Syllables

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
How many syllables are in the word pronunciation? Assist your pupils with both syllables and pronunciation with a series of activities. Learners categorize words, practice saying them out loud, and then play a game.
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Curated OER

The Rooms in a Home

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Enhance your foreign language young scholars' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a...
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Curated OER

What I need for School

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
You can use this lesson with English language learners, a young language arts class, or speakers of a foreign language. The phrases learned are I need and I don't need. The teacher collects several items around the room, and learners...
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Curated OER

Earth Day Contractions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
If you want to make learning fun, turn it into a game. Grammar gets an Earth Day make-over with a fun themed matching activity and contraction worksheet. The resource includes several sheets of cards, each containing the contraction and...

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