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![]() Help bee get to its beehive will practicing your initial consonant sounds. Download the file by clicking on the link below. If you would like other great phonics games visit my phonics page. ![]()
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![]() Your kids can practice learning their initial consonants while helping Cinderella reach her glass slippers. Download the file by clicking on the link below. Find more ideas for teaching phonics on my Phonics page. ![]()
Here's a fun new board game to let students practice initial consonant sounds. Students will start the game on the head of the snake and move to the end. ![]() Kids roll dice and tell the name of the consonant and a word that starts with that sound on each letter that they land on. If they land on a star they get to take an extra turn. ![]()
I've got a new limited time freebie. This time it is an alphabetical order file-folder game. ![]() In this e-book you will find 34 different alphabetical order word sorts, an answer key and place mat. This file folder game is a great activity for reading stations, a take home activity or as individual work. Creating the File Folder Game Print, cut out and laminate the game place mat. Glue it on the inside of a file-folder. You can store the individual word sorts in small envelops or in zip-lock bags. You can print the alphabetical order word sorts on red, green, and blue paper according to the difficulty of the sort. Using the game Students start by matching the first letters of the words on the mat. If two or more words start with the same letter they then move to the second column and the second letter. If the second letter is also the same they move on to the third. There is one word sort in this download that requires students to move to the fourth letter. Difficulty Red (easy) - All of the words can be sorted by looking at first letter. Green (medium) – Students need to look at the second letter to sort some of the words. Blue (difficult) – Students need to look at the third letter to sort some of the words. Blue + (challenge) – Need to go to the fourth letter. The free giveaway is over you can now purchase this file-folder game on the new websites shop.
With the school year winding down its time to get your students motivated to read over the summer. I love the cute display that I found on Pinterest, but there are many other great ideas out there. I've collected a list of ideas/resources. Hope you find them helpful. ![]() 1. Make sure your students have a library card or at least know how to get one. You can't get your students to read over the summer if they don't have access to books. The simplest way to do that is to get them to the library. 2. Have the start a summer reading log. There are many great reading logs out there below are a few links to my favorites. Bookworm game by Martha Stewart Scholastic Reading Log 3. Help students create there own summer reading list. Don't just have your students set a goal of how many books they want to read over the summer, let them decide which books they want to read. Reading Rockets has a great summer reading list on there web site. But I think its better if kids make their own list. Preview some books, have your students remember some books that they enjoyed during the year, find books by the same author or on the same topic and have them write down the books that they want to read. Again make sure students know how to use their local public library, how to search for books in the library and how to put books on hold. Here are two different plan sheets for the summer!
4. Be an example Create a summer reading list of your own and share it with your students. Get excited about it and your excitement will spread!
5. Have your students blog what they're reading over the summer. Your students will be excited to be able to keep in touch with their classmates and having them tell about what they are reading will also help to keep their writing skills sharp over the summer. Edublogs is a great resource for students to have a secure place to blog about what they are learning. If you have any other ideas that you are using in your classrooms I'd love you to leave a comment and share them below! I found a great idea for an end of the year vocabulary game called Snowball Fight on the Third Grade Curriculum Blog. ![]() Have your students each choose two pieces of white paper. On one paper they write a word, on the other they write the definition to the word. Crumple the papers up and have a snowball fight for a set amount of time. The third grade curriculum blog suggested setting a timer for 30 secs. Once the fight is over everyone has to pick up one of the snowballs and find their partner. I.e. the students who find a word have to locate the definition and the students who find the definition have to find the word. You can also prepare the words in advance if you want to review certain vocabulary words. For more great vocabulary games and activities click on the links. ![]() My Second Grade - Pirate Word Ladders are finished. These word ladders cover important skills needed in second grade. Like learning contractions, some common prefixes and suffixes like: un, re, ture, s, es, and ies. They also cover many different word patterns like: r-controlled words, ght, ph, kn, mb, and more. As well as many different vowel patterns. Not only will these ladders help students to spell the words included, they will help students when trying to decode unfamiliar words that they come across. You can download a preview of the word ladders below or you can purchase all 40 of them for $3.50. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.
I'm still working on the 2nd grade Pirate word ladders, I've got 10 of the 40 done but I thought I would release one of them early. See if your kids can climb the ladder to make can not become do. Click on the file below to download the word ladder. ![]()
It's been awhile since my last post because I've been working hard on a new product. Pirate Word Ladders. ![]() In this e-book you will find 40 reproducible Pirate word ladders. These word ladders are a great way for students to analyze words and will help students with decoding as well as spelling. Using Word Ladders Students will start at the bottom of the word ladder and use the directions and clues to create new words as they move to the top of each word ladder. Example The word ladder starts with the word Jack. The directions tell you to change the first letter and the clue is, “Put your homework in your back______.” The word that you need to make is pack. You can download a sample pirate word ladder below, and if you like it you might want to consider getting all 40 of them for only $3.50. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.
What Vocabulary Program would be complete without teaching students how to use context clues to find a words meaning? I've created a cute poster that you can use to help your students remember to use context clues. ![]() The poster encourages students to look for words that have the same or opposite meaning of the unfamiliar word and things or ideas related to the word. They can also ask themselves "Is the word a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb?" Then after they have thought of all of the clues surrounding the word they then need to prediction the meaning of the word and ask themselves does the sentence now make sense. |
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