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Blends Concentration

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Practice blending initial sounds with a St. Patrick's Day-themed word sort! Scholars read 20 word cards, organize them by initial blends, and write their findings on a corresponding activity.    
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"Hello" Game

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen as the teacher sings the first phrase of the "Hello" song (included with the lesson). They respond by singing the second phrase. They learn to pronounce the hello equivalent in other languages. The teacher sings the first...
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Vocabulary Zoo Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in an activity which is focused on new vocabulary words and their definitions. They study vocabulary that will be used in an upcoming read aloud. They make an animal sound each time one of the vocabulary words is read.
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Do the Hokey Pokey in Many Languages

For Teachers K - 8th
Students replace the body part words in the tune The Hokey Pokey with the same body part words in other languages. They learn the vocabulary more readily because of the connection to music.
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
A reading readiness PowerPoint engages students in practicing their rhyming skills. The PowerPoint begins with a review of what a rhyming word is, followed by in context examples (Nursery Rhymes), and concludes with an interactive...
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American Indians Heritage Series: The Inuit's

For Teachers K
Students become aware that people lived in America before Columbus came.  In this Inuit culture lesson, students discuss lives of the Inuits. Students listen to Mama Do You Love Me, A Promise is a Promise and The Polar Bear Son: Inuit...
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Respect for Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners discuss importance of acting responsibly when caring for pets, reflect upon quote, "All Living Beings Have the Right to Respect and Kindness," read story Anastasia Wants a Rabbit and answer comprehension questions, role play...
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Roll the Dice

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
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Falling Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying individual sounds in words by interacting with the phoneme /a/. They recite the tongue twister, "Abby had an apple in the bag," and play the game beware of the falling apples. Each student also reads the...
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Let's Write Around the World

For Teachers K
Students participate in an ongoing writing project about the seven world continents. In this continents writing lesson, students work on an interactive game to write about the seven continents. Students locate the continents on the map....
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Road Manners

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners examine manners and citizenship. In this citizenship and safety instructional activity, students build an understanding of the relationship between good manners and safety. Learners talk about what good divers do to be safe on...
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Contraction Jeopardy

For Teachers K - 2nd
This word study PowerPoint addresses how to construct contractions. In this PowerPoint, students participate in a game of Jeopardy where they must click on a specific question and form the given contraction with a word.
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W Words

For Students K
The intent of this resource is not clear. However, it contains five rows of five pictures of words that begin with W. Kids could use these to play a game of bingo, memory, or sort by secondary phoneme. 
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I Have the Balloons

For Students K
Fill your classroom with balloons for this fun mini-lesson! Beginning readers create this tiny booklet about balloons, illustrating each simple sentence provided. When they're finished, consider playing a game! Break your kindergarteners...
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Giving Game-Let the Games Begin!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss games in which there is a "winner."
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The Alphabet Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners participate in a game in which they spell words. They work together to help each other with sounds and letters. The group with the most points wins the game.
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Rhyme Game

For Teachers K
Students match rhyming picture cards. They use a musical timer and each student has the opportunity to show his or her card to the class. They must match them and show them to the teacher.
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Name Games

For Teachers K
Students develop a sense of self. They complete several activities involving their name. They disuss what names are useful for safety purposes.
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Letter Sound and Letter Combination Accuracy, Sound Search Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. In this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt involving...
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Mitten Alphabet File Folder Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this uppercase and lowercase letters review worksheet, students cut out the 46 letters and glue one set to the inside of a file folder. Students then use the other set to match uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Foods and Languages of the World

For Teachers K
Students celebrate diversity. In this multicultural appreciation lesson, students celebrate diversity by sampling food from different cultures, learning a few words in Spanish and identifying the seven different continents.
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Fluency: Words, Word Climb

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Just like climbing a mountain, little learners read to reach the top. They take turns picking high-frequency word cards, reading them, then matching them to the words on their mountain worksheet. They race to reach the top of the...
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Sight Word Lists and Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Scholars examine newspaper articles and highlight two sight words to discover which appears more frequently. They then glue sight words onto paper to make flashcards before composing, writing, and creating picture representations of...
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BBC

Full Stops

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an incredibly detailed and thorough plan. It is all about full stops - which is the British way of saying, "Periods." First-year learners practice the skill of knowing when to use a period, and understand what periods are meant...

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