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Developing Coordination Skills and Pencil Control Using Mouse Hockey

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore motor skills by participating in a drawing activity. In this hand coordination lesson, students utilize activity sheets in which they drag their pencil in a specific direction quickly and efficiently. Students utilize...
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Beginning Sounds

For Teachers K
Students find the beginning letters of words. In this alphabet instructional activity, students sound out words to find the beginning sound and the beginning letter. They play a game to mark these letters on a card. 
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Jump-Rope Round-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in group jump rope activities. In this jump rope lesson, students follow directions to play various jump rope games, some with specific songs attached. There are 4 different renditions of jump rope activities included.
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Initial Sound Accuracy, Same Sound!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study words. For this phonemic awareness lesson, students play a game in which they identify if two words have the same initial sound. They play the game in pairs using a stack of word cards prepared by the teacher. This lesson...
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Bingo!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. In this decoding lesson, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.
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Mexican Memory Match

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore memorization by participating in a fun class game. In this Mexican culture lesson plan, students identify important Mexican symbols and utilize these images to play a memory game. Students match flash cards containing...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Winnie the Pooh

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students color pages, eat carrots, read books, and more to learn about Winnie the Pooh. In this Winnie the Pooh lesson plan, students also play a bears musical chairs game.
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Snatch A Card

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice recognizing sight words by playing a word card game. In this snatch a card lesson, students read at least 10 dolch words, play a mixing the word cards game, and read rotating cards.
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Hats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to a read aloud of "Hats, hats, hats," by Ann Morris focusing on the variety of hats. They play a file folder game categorizing hats from the book.
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Mother, May I Communicate?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.
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Musical Chair Review

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars play a simple game designed to reinforce letter names, sounds or sight words. They walk in a circle as music plays, and stop in front of a chair when the music stops. Each chair has a letter or sight word that the child...
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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading

For Teachers K
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. In this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Letter Writing Accuracy, Air Write

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars work in pairs to play an air writing game. In this air writing lesson plan, students are given a written letter to practice. Young scholars use their finger to write a letter in the air and their partner must try to guess...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study language. In this word fluency lesson, students play a version of Musical Chairs in which they must correctly say an irregular word, pulled from a bag, to keep their chair. The game is played with a small group of...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Word Potato

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study words. In this word fluency lesson, students play a version of the game Hot Potato to practice correctly saying irregular words. They play as a class with a basket of irregular words. This lesson includes a links to print...
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Sounding out accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...
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Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete worksheets by circling similar letters used in rhyming sounds. They form rhyming words using index cards and play a game of rhyming Bingo. They use letter tiles to form the rhyming words in the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop."
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Throw a Word: Christmas

For Students K - 2nd
In this Christmas word game learning exercise, students follow the instructions to play the word game that requires them to read the 20 words on the Christmas word board.
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It Feels....

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice using descriptive language. In this 5 senses lesson, students feel various items and describe to their teacher how they feel. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Irregular Word Fluency, Surprise

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice reading. In this irregular words lesson, students build their reading fluency playing a game in which they identify word cards. They play in a small group led by a teacher. This lesson includes a link to the irregular...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Students review irregular words and build fluency by playing a game. In this irregular word lesson, students label a variety of blank index cards, then post the index cards around the room as signs that create a...
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K
Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. In this phonics lesson plan, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Learners read the word off the card and stretch it out.