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The Honeycomb Challenge: Shapes and Colors
Play this game with young English language learners to help them learn color and shape vocabulary. As they make their way around the game board, they talk about the colors and shapes they pass and land on. Add math skills practice by...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend
The story Franklin's New Friend contains three tier-two vocabulary words! Your class reads the story, identifies the vocabulary words, and then works to construct their meanings. The new words are recorded either in a journal entry...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Take your budding readers on a literary trip to pick blueberries as they learn vocabulary from Robert McClosky's book, Blueberries for Sal. By pre-teaching the words pupils are prepared to raise their hands when they hear...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend (Bourgeois)
Franklin the turtle makes a new friend as youngsters learn vocabulary in context using Paulette Bourgeois' story (tip: this strategy can be applied to any book). Brief kids on the new words so they can raise their hands when they...
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Introducing Synonyms to Early Writers
Upper elementary schoolers examine the concept of synonyms and how using a variety of vocabulary through synonyms can expand their writing skills. They revise a paragraph using synonyms located on the Visual Thesaurus and participate in...
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It's Opposite Day
Celebrate Opposite Day by using a Visual Thesaurus to match words to their antonyms. They match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts using the Visual Thesaurus, and then they play Antonym Bingo with the words from...
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Complement Problems
Two worksheets are here with 17 complement math word problems. These are not easy problems. Percentages, fractions, metric system problems, and logic problems are all present. Many of the problems require two or three steps to solve....
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Hockey Game (Advanced Code)
Make reading your goal with a hockey-themed phonics game! Kids read the words on each hockey puck, then move down the ice rink game board by following the instructions on each card.
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Latin and Greek Roots Lesson Plan: Creating a Board Game
Students explore Latin and Greek roots. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students create a board game featuring Greek and Latin roots.
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Simply Fractions Zombie Board Game
In this fractions worksheet, students participate in a fraction simplifying game. The object of the game is to land on a space and simplify the fraction given. The game board is included in this worksheet.
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Board Game
In this estimation learning exercise, students roll dice and land on spaces in this Zombie Board Game and round the 3 digit number to the nearest one hundred. Students complete 30 problems.
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Americana Trivia Game
In this American history game, students use the blank game board and the trivia question cards to play a board game that tests knowledge of American history. There are 28 trivia questions and full directions.
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Space Evaders: Feelings
In this feelings-related words game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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Space Evaders: Numbers
For this number-related words game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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Space Evaders: Sports
In this sports-related words game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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Football Spelling
Third graders play a football spelling game where two teams spell words and gain yardage for each correctly spelled word. This clever spelling game will be highly motivational for your class! Each team gains ten yards every time they...
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Ideas to Spice up Greek and Latin Roots
Learning Greek and Latin roots is an important way to develop vocabulary, but it does get quite boring. Use this list of ideas to add some fun to your daily lessons. Lots of games are suggested to get your kids up and moving. Note: no...
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EL Juego de las Preguntas (Quiz Yourself!)
Put your Spanish skills to the test with an interactive self-assessment tool. Class members select the correct Spanish translation of an English phrase to score ten points and win the game!
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New Year's Day Crossword Puzzle
Three, two, one—Happy New Year! Ring in the magical moment between old and new years with an interactive crossword puzzle. Pupils read clues to guess words such as millennium, countdown, and fireworks.
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Tic-Tac-Toe
Who can match three words first? Using a tic-tac-toe template, kids fill in nine words from their vocabulary word wall, and listen for the teacher to call out words that match their game boards. The first to get three in a row wins!
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Zombie Board Game
In this powers worksheet, students complete a board game where they have to say the answer of the numbers to powers for each square of the board game. Students complete 34 problems.
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Zombie Board Game
In this all operations worksheet, students play a board game where they solve problems involving all operations and fractions. Students complete 34 problems.
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Zombie Board Game
In this math operations instructional activity, students play a board game where they name the math operation of the square they land on. Students have 34 operations.
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Zombie Board Game
In this calendar worksheet, learners play a game where they say the position of the day, month, or letter on the space with the determined amount of time. Students complete 34 problems.