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Match the Memory: Formal vs Informal Language
Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Opposites Attract
A lesson plan in which students play a card game by matching synonym and antonym cards. Materials are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Team Efforts
Try these cooperative games to explore the benefits of teamwork with students.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Oops!
Enjoy this pants-patching game with students, and then talk about dealing with embarrassment.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Group Endeavors
Show students that some of the best games are those in which everyone works together.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Good Sport
Play catch with young scholars, and help them practice being good sports. Talk to them about winning and losing, and explain that it's not if you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
Other
Lego Foundation: The Role of Play in Children's Development
This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Fantasy Baseball Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Middle schoolers will be given baseball trading cards to use the decimals and ratios to participate in a fantasy baseball game. Printable lesson
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bingo
This is an interactive activity for children learning the alphabet. To play, children must listen for the animated character to say a letter and then click on the corresponding letter in the grid.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Nature Changer
As an extension to the PBS Kids' series Plum Landing, students will choose among several animals and simulate their attempt to forage for food to survive.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Phrase Reading
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Practice
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Dictionaries and Indexes
This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching
Play a game by dragging the lowercase letters to their matching upper case letters in order to get all the colors back in the picture.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur: Supermarket Scavenger Hunt
This page features an alphabet scavenger hunt activity for young students. Using markers, paper and other materials, students will have an opportunity to work on an alphabetical shopping list.