Students listen to the story, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss. They discuss the rhyming in the book and then play a rhyming game.

Students examine the rules for the use and formation of adjectives and play a game of tic-tac-toe to determine the correct form of the word to be used.

First graders investigate sounds of short and long vowels for e and o. They develop phonics skills through drill and practice sessions. They use a variety of activities that include games. This is a whole unit plan.

Students practice movement skills while working on their spelling. They review spelling words and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved.

Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.

Students examine the journals from Lewis and Clark and identify how they spoke without using words. They participate in a game in which they use non-verbal communication with each other. They write their own journal entries to complete...

Sixth graders engage in a activity that covers the use of regular and irregular plurals. They practice using four different games which work for keeping the student level of engagement high. Students review the rules of basic plurals and...

Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...

Young scholars create and play a game called Antonym Match-up. They create twenty cards with ten pairs of antonyms. In pairs, They mix up the cards and compete to see who can match all of the pairs the fastest. A video segment from the...

Students are introduced to "Jack Be Nimble" poster. They are asked what the boy, whose name is Jack, is doing. Students are told that jumping over a lighted candle was a game that used to be played in a country called England.

Students complete online phonics activities. In this phonics lesson, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Students make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet. Students also...

In this spelling showdown worksheet, students play a spelling game where they write a word with the correct spelling on a whiteboard. Students collect beans if their answer are correct. The student with the most beans wins.

Students spell and recognize vocabulary words and/or spelling words by playing musical chairs with spelling words.

Students participate in a crab soccer game. Points are accumulated by earning a letter for each goal until a vocabulary word is spelled correctly.

Students practice skills to determine the relationship of words. In groups of two, classmates complete a chart to match vocabulary words into specific groups such as synonyms, antonyms, or familial relationship. To reinforce word...

Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...

Students view an animated PowerPoint program that teaches possessive vocabulary in Spanish. They review English grammar. Students access high-frequency verbs and additional vocabulary.

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...

Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of...

Third graders read words by playing musical chairs.

First graders write riddles about each other using descriptive words. They try to guess who the person is when the riddle is read aloud.

Students brainstorm the names of Shakespeare's plays and read an article about a new theatre. They complete worksheets about the plays. In groups, they play a game where they give clues about films or plays and others try to guess the...

Students participate in a tag game to practice their weekly spelling words. Five students are chosen as "it" and run around chasing the other students. When a student is tagged, he/she must freeze until the teacher asks him/her a...

Students, after playing a game of animal 'identity', review and practice key vocabulary words orally and written into their notebooks for this lesson plan. They read a story about a new arrival at the zoo and answer text questions...