Students identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. In this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...

Students complete an online alphabet activity. In this alphabetical order instructional activity, students identify the list of words in alphabetical order. Students discuss ordering using the alphabet and practice with the second set of...

Learners explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. For this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Learners place the cards and images...

Learners practice movement skills while working on their spelling. They review spelling words and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved.

Learners play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.

Students examine the journals from Lewis and Clark and identify how they spoke without using words. They participate in a game in which they use non-verbal communication with each other. They write their own journal entries to complete...

Sixth graders engage in a lesson plan that covers the use of regular and irregular plurals. They practice using four different games which work for keeping the student level of engagement high. Students review the rules of basic plurals...

Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...

Students create and play a game called Antonym Match-up. They create twenty cards with ten pairs of antonyms. In pairs, They mix up the cards and compete to see who can match all of the pairs the fastest. A video segment from the...

Students are introduced to "Jack Be Nimble" poster. They are asked what the boy, whose name is Jack, is doing. Students are told that jumping over a lighted candle was a game that used to be played in a country called England.

Students complete online phonics activities. In this phonics lesson, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Students make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet. Students also...

In this spelling showdown worksheet, students play a spelling game where they write a word with the correct spelling on a whiteboard. Students collect beans if their answer are correct. The student with the most beans wins.

Students spell and recognize vocabulary words and/or spelling words by playing musical chairs with spelling words.

Young scholars participate in a crab soccer game. Points are accumulated by earning a letter for each goal until a vocabulary word is spelled correctly.

Students practice skills to determine the relationship of words. In groups of two, classmates complete a chart to match vocabulary words into specific groups such as synonyms, antonyms, or familial relationship. To reinforce word...

Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...

Students view an animated PowerPoint program that teaches possessive vocabulary in Spanish. They review English grammar. Students access high-frequency verbs and additional vocabulary.

Students study words. In this fluency building instructional activity, students play a one on one game in which they read irregular words presented to them. They work with their teacher to keep as many irregular word cards as he or she...

Young scholars practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Young scholars then sound out the word from...

Third graders read words by playing musical chairs.

First graders write riddles about each other using descriptive words. They try to guess who the person is when the riddle is read aloud.

Students brainstorm the names of Shakespeare's plays and read an article about a new theatre. They complete worksheets about the plays. In groups, they play a game where they give clues about films or plays and others try to guess the...

Learners participate in a tag game to practice their weekly spelling words. Five students are chosen as "it" and run around chasing the other learners. When a student is tagged, he/she must freeze until the teacher asks him/her a...

Students, after playing a game of animal 'identity', review and practice key vocabulary words orally and written into their notebooks for this instructional activity. They read a story about a new arrival at the zoo and answer text...