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Dictionary Detective
Build your class's dictionary skills with this fun game. The activity allows learners to better understand dictionary usage, spelling, and vocabulary. By the end of this activity, they should be skilled word finders.
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Spelling Counts!
Play a game to practice spelling and math. By assigning a numerical value to each letter of the alphabet, you can engage learners in "spy" coding and decoding activities that reinforce grade-appropriate spelling and math skills....
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Colorful Corn Ring Toss
Learners design and construct a ring-toss game that enables them to practice spelling words, math facts, or science vocabulary. They plan and determine their game rules, and using a variety of craft materials, create a corn-husk/corn-ear...
Spelling Words Well
Slip It In!
Bad, bid, bed. Jib, jab, job. Kids practice building short-vowel words with a game that challenges them to provide the missing short vowel in the provided word card.
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Harry Potter Knows Latin. Do You?
Expecto Patronum! Densaugeo! Mobiliarbus! A spellbinding activity is sure to excite Harry Potter enthusiasts. Young wizards translate English words into Latin and use the first letters of each spell to solve a riddle.
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Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Fishing for Vowel Digraphs
After teaching vowel digraphs, reinforce the concept with an activity! Young scholars fish from a pile of 60 cards to match words with the same sound. Featured vowel digraphs include ea, au, aw, ow, oa, ai, ay, and ee.
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Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a instructional activity that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar...
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The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary Words--Set 1--Flash Cards
Now this is a cool way to study vocabulary. Kids can click on the EZ Flash Cards to revile definitions, test themselves, or prep for reading. The vocabulary on these flash cards are all taken from the Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, The...
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Compound Word Games
Students build compound words out of two separate words using a variety of activities. In this compound word lesson plan, students practice building compound words using word cards. These word cards can be used in a variety of ways to...
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Say and Spell CVC Words Board Game
ESL students practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling instructional activity, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first...
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of Short Vowel Words
Using pictures of a bed, a desk, a fish, and a pig, students unscramble the letters below to form the correct words. Pictures range from photographs to illustrations, and are easy for kids to understand.
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Silent Letter Game
In this silent letters worksheet, students play a Snakes and Ladders game, write words with silent letters, solve clues to words, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Word Relay
Students identify words from the class word wall or other vocabulary lists. They form teams and read words in an effort to identify as many correctly as they can. They utilize words from a variety of sources within the classroom to...
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Test Your Spelling Skills
In this spelling worksheet, students practice spelling number words from one to twenty. Students are instructed to read a word, cover it, write it, check it and correct it, if necessary.
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Test Your Spelling Skills Read>Cover>Write>Check>Correct No. 5-- Family Words
In this spelling worksheet, students analyze a list of 20 family words. Students are asked to use the strategy of read, cover, write, check and correct in order to learn to spell the words.
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Test Your Spelling Skills
In this spelling practice worksheet, 2nd graders practice spelling the days of the week and the months of the year. Students are encouraged to read each word, cover it, write it, check it and correct it if necessary.
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Make Words Using the Letters in the Word "Crocodile"
In this spelling and science worksheet, students read a short description of a crocodile before using the letters in its name to make as many words as possible. They are encouraged to make at least 24 words, and can check their answers...
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Make Words Using the Letters in the Word " Alligator"
In this spelling and science worksheet, students read a short description of an alligator before using the letters in its name to make as many words as possible. They are encouraged to make at least 18 words which they can check with...
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Make Words Using the Letters in the Words "Polar Bear"
In this science based spelling worksheet, young scholars read a short description of a polar bear before using the letters in the words to make as many new words as possible. They can check their words with those posted at the bottom the...
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Making Words Using the Letters in the Words "Superb Lyrebird"
In this spelling and science worksheet, students read a short description of the Superb Lyrebird. They make as many words as they can using the letters in those words. They can check their answers with those at the bottom of the page.
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Animal Word Scramble
In this animal-themed word scramble instructional activity, students use the provided picture clues to unscramble 5 animal-related words.
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Word Scramble #1
In this fruit-themed word scramble worksheet, students use the provided picture clues to unscramble 4 fruit-related words.
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Make Words with the Letters in the Word Badger
In this language arts and science worksheet, students make as many words as they can using the letters in the word "badger." They are encouraged to make at least 17 words. They see examples at the bottom of the page.
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Bueno Brothers' Bean Dip
Learners play a game in which they see how many words they can form from a scoop of lima bean letters