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Hector's World: It's a Serious Game

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate child safety by viewing an educational video. In this Internet privacy lesson, students view a short film based on children giving personal information out on the web. Students answer discussion questions after...
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Categories Game: Ten Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, in groups, create lists of vocabulary words related to a particular subject. They are given points for each correctly spelled word that matches a list written by the teacher.
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Alphabet Game

For Teachers K
Students recognize and orally name all of the letters of the alphabet when shown each letter individually. They pronounce words correctly when orally. Students decode words to orally speak the correct pronunciation. Students discuss...
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Truth and Lies Games

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students participate in a get to know you activity. In this social lesson, students write three statements about themselves. One is true and the other is false. Students read their cards and their peers decide what is true and what is not.
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Windowsill Gardening: Find the Vegetable Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word search worksheet, students locate names of vegetables that are hidden in sentences and match their names with their pictures. Students answer 14 questions.
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Multiple Meanings Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Here is a simple activity that uses definition cards that match the appropriate words to their meaning. Pupils match the cards using vocabulary words from units of study. A very basic, but often useful, resource.
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Catch the Letter Game

For Teachers K
Students have a rubber kickball that is passed around in a circle. A letter name is called and anyone with that letter sound that begins their name raises their hand. The ball is passed to them and they say, " K is for Kara." and then...
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Goal-Makers Win the Game!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the meaning of the word "goal". As a class, they identify examples of goals with their teacher's guidance. Individually, they complete a worksheet to identify their short and long term goals and complete a...
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Shopping Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A PowerPoint on building short-term memory is here for you. Learners look at a slide that has pictures of twelve different items, then they attempt to retell what the twelve items were.
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ABC Sound Off!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Games are great ways to reinforce practical concepts. This game has students determine which letter each picture begins with. There are sounds for correct and incorrect answers, which the students will enjoy. The game is short and could...
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Egg Hunt Reinforces Math, Language Skills

For Teachers K - 8th
It's amazing what you can do to reinforce math skills while leading an egg hunt! Learners of all ages will benefit from playing this simple game.
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Verbal Cues

For Teachers K Standards
Help young learners practice drawing conclusions and using reasoning through this simple game idea. The teacher places a mystery object in a bag and  learners must ask yes/no questions until they guess what it is correctly. As a model of...
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Digraph Boggle

For Students K - 2nd
Th, wh, ch, and sh are only some of the consonant digraphs early readers need to master. Increase skills and digraph recognition with a fun game. Children find words containing an initial or final digraph, circle them, and then write...
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Good Sport

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Playing a simple game of catch, and empathizing with someone who drops the bean bag, is the basis for a game on being a good sport. In it, learners engage in a class discussion about winning and losing. It's always easy to win, but not...
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Fishing for Friends

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students design a creative fishing game in which they measure pieces, sculpt a pond scene and write details about themselves. They seek out new friends by playing a game to discover other students with similar interests and hobbies to...
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Dictionary Word Sort

For Students 6th - 7th
In this dictionary word sort activity, students play a game identifying where words in the dictionary would be. Students use different cards and identify where a certain word would be on the page.
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Making More Words With "at"

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore phonetics by identifying words with one specific sound. In this rhyming words instructional activity, students discuss the sound "at" and the many words that contain the same sound. Students utilize index cards to...
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Guess the Fruit!

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a fun game to help little learners build deductive reasoning skills. Each slide contains an image of a fruit or a bag, it's up to the class to determine which fruit will come out of the bag next, based on the clues you give them....
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Reintroduce /a/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
What does the letter a sound like? Scholars practice with letter sound correspondence by honing their pronunciation of the /aaa/ sound. Use these helpful tips to explain how to make this sound if needed. Then, they brainstorm words that...
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Rhyme Brainstormers

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students identify words that rhyme and realize that this literacy skill is engaging. Then they prepare their own language game props. Students also monitor each other in following rules, erasing duplicate words, and scorekeeping....
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Introduce /e/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Examine the most-used letter in the English language incorporating pronunciation, letter recognition, letter sound, and word examples for the letter e. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /eee/ sound. As you...
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Novelinks

Maus: Bingo Vacabulary Strategy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The definitions for unfamiliar words drawn from Art Spiegelman graphic novel memoir, Maus, provide the clues for a vocabulary bingo game. 
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Denver Art Museum

Words-A-Buzz

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here's an art instructional activity for pre-schoolers which focuses on communicating through words and movement. Learners explore the traditions of the samurai grip enhancers and characteristics of wasps. Photographs, embedded in the...
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Pearson

Rumpelstiltskin

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Classic fairy tales are great! They have memorable characters, present interesting story lines, and lend themselves to art projects. Grab a copy of "Rumpelstiltskin" and get ready to participate in several early literacy activities. The...

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