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Collections Connect Four
In this items that come in bunches learning exercise, learners play a Connect Four type game with vocabulary words that name things that come in bunches. They work with words to make matches such as geese/gaggle, and to get four card in...
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VOCRAB-SOCCER
Students participate in a crab soccer game. Points are accumulated by earning a letter for each goal until a vocabulary word is spelled correctly.
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Collocation Pelmanism
Students read and analyze the article, "Lexical exploitation of texts," and become aware of the concept of recycling new words. They practice this concept several times in class before they take on the memory game pelmanism in the follow...
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Friends
Students complete vocabulary activities about friends. For this vocabulary lesson, students introduce themselves in a ball game format and discuss the topic of friends. Students complete a worksheet with related vocabulary and read a...
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Spelling Lesson Plan: Make a Word Race: Class Teams
Students practice their spelling words. In this spelling skills instructional activity, students play a game that requires them to race to the front of the classroom to spell their spelling words before the other team does.
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Letters and Photos
Young scholars practice using a new language by reading letters. In this foreign language lesson, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country. Young scholars read the letters...
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Expressions of Frequency
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language. In this foreign language lesson, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often. Students create a timeline illustrating how often...
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Planning a Community Service Project
Learners practice using a new language to plan a community event. In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language. Learners brainstorm in small groups what their...
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A Look at Geography
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language. In this geographical identification lesson, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or where...
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Let's Read the Newspaper
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news. Students work together as a newspaper...
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Rainbow Dice Spelling
Students participate in a spelling game to help them with their spelling words. They role a die and write the given word as many times as the die says too. They write the words in different colors to review them as well.
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Power Words
Using words can create a power struggle! Using antonyms and synonyms can create a Power Words game! Check out this lesson that teachers your class the difference between the two and how to use a thesaurus.
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Genre Jeopardy
Students play a Jeopardy game in which the questions are about different genres. They can use this activity as a review before a test.
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Genre Jeopardy
Students participate in a game-like format to identify characteristics of genres. They categorize stories into genres bases on story summaries after a class discussion of the characteristics.
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Spelling Tag
Learners participate in a tag game to practice their weekly spelling words. Five students are chosen as "it" and run around chasing the other learners. When a student is tagged, he/she must freeze until the teacher asks him/her a...
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Finding the Subject
Students explore sentences to locate subjects. In this language lesson, students investigate methods to locate subjects in sentences and practice doing so.
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Tic Tac Toe: Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words worksheet, students play three tic-tac-toe games in which rhyming words in a row are marked. Students then change the letter with a circle around it in four words to spell a new word.
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How to Teach Dolch Words with Kid Pix
Learners use KidPix computer program to learn Dolch sight words. In this technology and language lesson, students type their Dolch sight words into KidPix to create a quasi-sentence.
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Giving Directions
Students explore communication by participating in language description activities. In this directions lesson, students practice using communicative terms and prepositions of places to direct a classmate to an exact location. Students...
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My Pile, Your Pile
Students study words. In this fluency building lesson, students play a one on one game in which they read irregular words presented to them. They work with their teacher to keep as many irregular word cards as he or she can based on them...
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End Mark Dominoes
In this punctuation worksheet, students match sentences and ending marks together to make complete sentences. There is a worksheet provided in order to play this game.
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Synonyms: Frogs
Students play this synonym review game. Using the list of synonyms below (or any others you have), call out a pair of words. Since the words are synonyms, the students hop like frogs to someone else's seat.
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Active Listening
Students talk with a partner. In this listening lesson, students play a favorite colors listening games, review a checklist for active listening and practice active listening with a partner.
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There! Their
In this there and their worksheet, students read labels to pictures and play a bingo game. Students read 13 labels and play bingo with many cards.