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Take Me Out to the Ballgame Card Game ActivityTake Me Out to the Ballgame Card Game Activity
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame Card Game

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Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack! Inspire some competition between your learners with a baseball-themed reading game. Players take turns reading as many words as they can, and once they reach a card they can't read, they tally up their points for that inning.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

sight words, decoding words, beginning reading, phonics, dyslexia

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • A great activity to send home for kids to practice with parents
  • Use in a language arts center or during a recreation period

Classroom Considerations

  • Each card has a lot of color; consider printing up one set for your class and laminating them
  • Try to match readers based on their reading level to minimize frustration

Pros

  • Creative way to inspire decoding and sight reading
  • Helpful for learners of all skill levels, including learners with dyslexia or other reading difficulties

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.1.3.a RF.2.3.a RF.3.3.a

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