Curated OER
Test Your Spelling Skills: Dolch Sight Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students will read and practice the Dolch basic sight vocabulary list. There are a total of 220 words in ABC order that frequently appear in written English.
Curated OER
Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds
Getting comfortable with the sounds associated with each letter is crucial in a young learner's path to becoming literate. This lesson provides a terrific way to reinforce this skill in an engaging and fun manner. It's a game that the...
Curated OER
Sight Word Soup
Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words lesson plan, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...
Curated OER
United Words Stand
Students explore contractions and compound words by playing a whole-class game. In this reading lesson plan, students define compound words and contractions, and describe how they are formed. The game format should make this an exciting,...
Curated OER
Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words worksheet, students examine the 5 listed words and identify 3 words that rhyme with each of the words listed.
Curated OER
Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
Curated OER
The Alphabet Game
Students spell words using cards with each letter of the alphabet on them. In this alphabet lesson plan, students word in 2 teams and get points for the first team to spell the word correctly.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Compound Words
Learners identify compound words in the story, "Once There Was A Bull." They work with a partner to discuss what makes up a compound word and participate in a game that helps them to understand the concept better. As the assessment...
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #16 Picture / Phrase Match
Students practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson, students arrange sight words to the appropriate picture or phrase cards that match.
Curated OER
Irregular Word Fluency, Word Baseball
Young scholars review irregular words and build fluency by playing a game. In this irregular word lesson plan, students label a variety of blank index cards, then post the index cards around the room as signs that...
Curated OER
Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
In this scrambled words spelling activity, students examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
Curated OER
Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
For this scrambled words spelling activity, students examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
Curated OER
Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe
Learners play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words. In this tic-tac-toe activity, students read words to a partner. If they are correctly read, learners mark the tic-tac-toe board.
Curated OER
Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
After a lesson on vowel sounds and spelling, students identify four pictures and work on unscrambling the words below. Each word is three or four letters long (drum, sock, bug, dog).
Curated OER
Halloween Vocabulary Game
For this Halloween vocabulary worksheet, students use the Halloween pictures and words to play a game like bingo and recognize new words.
Curated OER
Body Words
Students use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The teacher...
Curated OER
Irregular Word Fluency, Bingo
First graders explore language arts by participating in a bingo activity with classmates. In this irregular word lesson plan, 1st graders utilize index cards and game boards to participate in a game of Word Bingo. Students practice...
Curated OER
Rhyming Word Dominos
In this language arts activity, students cut out the dominos in order to practice matching the words. This is done in the context of playing the game of dominos.
Curated OER
The Blend Game
Students become stars of their own educational video in this project that allows learning in several different styles.
BBC
The Patchworker - Sentences Making Sense
An entertaining and educationally sound lesson on sentence structure is here for you. Young readers play an online game called "The Patchwork Game" where they must patch together a series of words in order to create a complete sentence....
Curated OER
Spelling Relay
Looking for a way to review and practice spelling words that's fun and creative? Use this spelling relay activity for any grade level. Using three spelling lists, ranging in difficulty, teams of young spellers choose words from the lists...
Curated OER
Awesome Antonyms
Review with your young learners what opposites are and use a fun tag board game called Auntie Alice to practice. After the class plays the game, pairs work on computers practicing with interactive matching/flashcards/concentration games...
Curated OER
VCe Rule Fluency
Explore English by identifying word structures. Learners find many words that end with a vowel, consonant, and then an e. The class will participate in a word flash card game in which they correctly pronounce vowel-consonant words.