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Math Game Using A Tic-Tac-Toe Board

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Elementary schoolers play a math game using a Tic-Tac-Toe Board. This simple idea can be used with virtually any grade level. A team of learners are the "O's," and the other is the team of "X's." Each time a team gets a problem correct,...
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Adverbs of Frequency Board Game

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
In this oral language worksheet, students use the game board to play a game with adverbs. Students read the question on the card which begins with "How often do you...?" Students answer orally and move around the game board.
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Tree-mendous Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play a game where they classify the different characteristics of trees. In this tress lesson plan, students also use tree vocabulary and describe benefits of trees.
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Animal Kingdom Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students build their vocabulary and communication skills by describing animals found in nature. For this ESL lesson, students play a board game to compare and contrast animals. Students respond to icons, pictures and words to strengthen...
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Address America: Your Six-Word Stump Speech

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Stump speeches are the focus of this exercise that combines politics and language arts. After learning about this type of speech, the class listens to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign stump speech and answers a series of questions that...
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Women's History Month Activity Kit

For Students K - 4th Standards
Boost reading comprehension and shed light on famous women of history with books and learning activities, which include a board game, word search, crossword puzzle, and a quiz.
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Building ELD Confidence Through Games

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Fun ways to get your English Learner's involved in the classroom.
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Break It Down

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a word part identification game. They form words using prefixes, suffixes and root word game pieces.
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GCF Zombie Board Game

For Students 4th - 6th
In this greatest common factor worksheet, students follow instructions given to play a game finding GCF. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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The Honeycomb Challenge: House Terms

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this house terms word game learning exercise, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to the honey. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that...
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Boarding School vs. Day School Experiences

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the lives of Hopi children that attend boarding school and those that attend day school. In this schools lesson plan, students understand changes over time as they look at these schools chronologically.
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Games People Play

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words related to the games commonly played. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Sound-Alike Words 1

For Students 4th - 6th
In this listening and speaking learning exercise, students will read 20 sentences each containing a misspelled homophone. Then students will circle the misspelled homophone and write the correct sound alike word on the line.
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The History of Scrabble

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discover the history and rules to the classic board game, Scrabble.  In this spelling lesson, students complete a KWL chart on Scrabble and present their findings in an oral report.  Students work in pairs to reenact...
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Phono

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this homonyms worksheet, students discover common homonyms by playing a Bingo game. There are 8 different cards provided; the caller could use a homonyms list. The caller would need to use each word in a sentence. Students mark their...
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The Power of Words in "Charlotte's Web"

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students analyze the text in Charlotte's Web. In this language arts lesson plan, students dissect the passages from Charlotte's Web, specifically the adjectives Charlotte used to describe Wilbur. Finally, students play a game using...
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Worksheet 2: Games

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this games instructional activity, students read four descriptions of different indoor games of the world. Students guess the name of each game and write it in the space after the description. There is a word bank.
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Biology - Life Cycles Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a working vocabulary of terms related to the life cycle. In small groups, students play the life cycle's game which consists of matching and defining vocabulary. Directions for creating the game board are included with...
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Homophone Game

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars participate in a game that deals with homophones. They review the rules to the game and work in teams to run up to the board and write two more versions to each homograph called out by the teacher. All team members...
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Phonic Noughts and Crosses: s, m, c, t, g, p, a, o

For Students K - 2nd
Noughts and Crosses, the classic English game called tic-tac-toe in America, has an educational twist in a fundamental phonics matching activity. Emerging readers will take great pleasure in recognizing and reading nine simple CVC words...
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You Can Count on Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Here is a cross-curricular activity that is suitable for virtually any grade level! Learners calculate the mathematical value of their spelling words using the letter tiles from a Scrabble game and identify the spelling word with the...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Spelling Relay

For Teachers K - 12th
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...
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Simple to Complex Sentences

For Students 4th - 9th
Such a creative game idea, this activity might actually make grammar fun! Learners play a modified game of connect-four by identifying the grammatical name for different words and phrases and then working them into simple sentences to...