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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that young scholars have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Read Works

Read Works: Child's Play

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and interview with a girl named Kylie Copenhagen who invented a board game. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that learners play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can Machines Read Your Emotions?

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers can beat us in board games, transcribe speech, and instantly identify almost any object. But will future robots go further by learning to figure out what we're feeling? Kostas Karpouzis imagines a future where machines and the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Right On

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game by covering places on a board while making inferences. Materials are included.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
A version of Bingo! that teaches students to differentiate between words that rhyme. The site includes links to bingo boards and rhyming pictures.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by counting syllables in words. Materials are included.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bingo Lingo Game [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Bingo-like game where students match cards to root words. This PDF document contains five pages of directions, game boards, and game cards.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Clear It Addition

For Students 3rd - 5th
Clear It Addition is a fun game to practice and extend math fact fluency. Players must create number sentences that add up to the target numbers provided. Earn stars for extra points and clear the board before the timer runs out for...
Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Author's Purpose

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site offers three focusing on compound words: Flashcards, one side with base word, other side with a word to form compound: Matching, match pairs of words to form compound words; and Concentration, matching pairs of words to form...
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Other

Danielle's Place: Bible Theme Crafts for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian: Science: The Design of 'Through the Looking Glass'

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the inspiration of the chess board in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. It describes the chess moves that get Alice through her adventure and how they would work, or not, in a real chess game.