A VARIETY OF CLASSROOM GAMES
A VARIETY OF CLASSROOM GAMESOne Key Behavior of effective teaching is the use of variety in lesson presention.
GOAL
High impact
Interactive
Skill/Content Focus
FUNNER than lecture
Play is often talked about as if it was a relief from serious learning but for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood
Methods
Making words
Word Wall
Spelling Games
Other Grammar games
Helpful tools
Dice, spinners
Making Words
Materials:Lesson plan, upper and lower letters A-Z, pocket chart, word cards.
Pass out letters
Place large letters in the pocket chart/Hold up/name letters --children match
Write the number of letters they are to use
For each word
Tell what letters to use
Say the word
Use it in a sentence
All check and read
Put the word on a word card, then, in the pocket chart
Cues: “ADD a letter”, “CHANGE a letter”, “MOVE the letters around”, “put all the letters back and start new”, “proper names need a capital”, “Last word uses all the letters”
Extensions: Say and spell, sort for patterns, write new words from the pattern,
Word Wall
Effective for teaching high frequency words
Choose words students need frequently in reading and writing
At least 1 activity is done daily in which children find, write, chant the spelling of words
Need to read fast, say fast, write fast
Word Wall Activities
Clap, chant, and write
Clap and Snap
Review Rhyme (I’m thinking of a word that rhymes…)
Guess the Covered word (no letters, beginning letters…)
Review Cross Checking(With a close sentence, find a word that fits
Make Sentences
Be a Mind reader (I’m thinking of a word…2vowels, 7letters, plural, starts with…
Ruler Tap (I’ll start the tap…)
Wordo
Word Sorts
Spelling Game
Spelling Chairs
Spelling Basketball
Spelling Battleship
Spelling board games
Spelling pyramid, rainbow, smiley,
Other Grammar Games
Circle of Synonyms
Guess the Noun
Guess (act) the Verb
I’m going to the store
Guess the item
Categories
Listen and Draw
I am thinking of …
What am I
Plural Scrabble
Circle of Nouns
Ten Questions
Sentence Stretchers
Subject/Predicate Match
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