Pearson
Past Tense Game
Teach and taught, learn and learned! Work with your class on the past tense with some guided practice and a game. As a class, match the present tense verbs with their past tense counterparts. Learners then split off into pairs to play...
Kaylee's Education Studio
Snake Sounds Digraph Game Board
Sound out digraphs with a fun snake game! When kids roll the dice, they move their pieces over a game board that prompts them to think of a word that starts with the selected digraph, such as ph- and kn-.
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Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
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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/ar/ Word List
The tart dart left a hard scar on the large shark. Here's an exercise designed to help readers develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words. The exercise, the third in the series of 16 and featuring...
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/ue/ Word List
The final resource in a series of 16 phonemic awareness activities, designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words, features the /ue/ sound. Kids identify and highlight the /ue/ sound in a list of 13...
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/u/ Word List
Son, sum, sun.The /u/ sound is featured in this phonemic awareness activity that asks learners to identify and highlight the /u/ sound in a list of 39 words. The purpose here is to help readers develop the awareness skills needed to...
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/ou/ Word List
Phonemic awareness is the focus of an activity that asks kids to identify and highlight the /ou/ sound in a list of 32 words. The exercise is designed to not only develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words,...
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/oo/ Word List
Choose a flute of cool fruit today. The /oo/ sound is featured in this activity designed to help kids develop the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words. After identifying and highlighting the /oo/ sound in a list of 39...
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/oul/ Word List
Would you put a hood on a good pudding cookie if you stood in the crook of a bush with a notebook? Yes, its the /oul/ sound and it's featured in this phonemic awareness activity that asks kids to identify and highlight the /oul/ sounds...
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/o/ Word List
Caught, off, robin. The /o/ sound if the focus of an activity that asks readers to identify and highlight the /a/ sound in a list of words. The exercise is designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in...
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/oe/ Word List
Home, though, smoke. Help readers develop phonemic awareness, the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words, with an exercise that asks them to identify and highlight the /oe/ sound in a list of 39 words. The exercise is 10th...
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/ie/ Word List
This activity, the second in a series of 16 resources designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words, asks readers to identify and highlight the /ie/ sound in a list of 39 words. After identifying the...
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/oi/ Word List
Spoil, brown, poison. Designed to help develop phonemic awareness, the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words, readers are asked to identify and highlight the /oi/ sound in a list of 30 words. They then practice reading...
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/i/ Word List
Six silly chicks sit and fish with big strings and sticks. Help young readers develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to detect the sound structure of words and the vowel sounds in words with an exercise that asks them to identify...
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/e/ Word List
Then, bread, set. Help readers develop the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words with an exercise that features the /e/ sound. Kids develop phonemic awareness by identifying and highlighting the /e/ sound in a list of words...
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/ee/ Word List
Thirty-nine words featuring the /ee/ sound are included on a worksheet designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words and to develop the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words. Kids...
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/ae/ Word List
As part of a program to develop phonemic awareness, beginning readers are asked to identify and highlight the /ae/ sound in a list of 54 words. The exercise is the second in a series of 16 resources designed to develop the awareness...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 10 - Compound Words
Individually, words have power, but when added together, they can take on a whole other level of meaning. Readers learn about compound words in the 10th of 17 lessons of the Word Recognition and Fluency series. A script provides guidance...
Curated OER
Elementary Vocabulary Games
How do learners pick up new vocabulary words? This book offers an explanation and 30 vocabulary games to help your language learners master new words. Each game is based on a particular topic and includes three parts (memorizing,...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
Curated OER
Slider Word Game
Students investigate the parts of words that can be used to increase reading comprehension with more vocabulary. They create colorful sliders and play a game with them. The game also can be used to for introducing different parts of speech.
Curated OER
Mystery Word Wall Game
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...
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1
As part of a series of resources designed for English learners, a language arts instructional activity prompts kid engage in activities and exercises that focus on the past tense of irregular verbs.
ABCya
Christmas Word Search
Can you find the mittens? What about the reindeer—or Santa? Try an online Christmas-themed word search to add some festive language arts fun to the classroom this year.