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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Memory Word Game ActivityPhonics: High Frequency Words, Memory Word Game Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
K - 1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2005
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Memory Word Game

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Play this fun adaptation of the game Memory. Young scholars flip over high-frequency word cards, read them aloud, and keep them if they match.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

emergent reading, phonics, high frequency words, beginning reading, sight words, word recognition

Additional Tags

early reading, high frequency words, phonics, site words, reading words, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • List the game as a free-choice activity that can also be
  • Send the game home for optional practice and add family time

Classroom Considerations

  • Prep time includes making copies

Pros

  • The general idea can be expanded to include other high frequency-words

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.3.c

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