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CVC SHAKE (consonant-vowel-consonant words)
An egg carton is labeled with vowels. Wooden cubes (or relabeled dice) contain the first and last consonants of three letter CVC (consonant - voweo - consonant) words. Students place the vowel cubes in the carton, shake it, and open it to see how many "real" words they have formed.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 1
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HOMOPHONE DOMINOES
Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings - English has many homphones. In this domino game players match 36 homophone pairs and use each word correctly in a sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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VOWEL- GO-ROUND
Players try to use a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) to complete a word. Students discover that by changing the vowel in the miidle of a word they can change the word. Also good for practicing vowel sounds.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Rotten Bananas Sight Word Game
Write words on the blank cards (word list included). Mix the word cards with the monkey cards. Players read the word cards to earn bananas but...if they turn over a rotten banana, they have to give back a banana, and if they get a monkey card instead of a word card the monkey "steals" all the player bananas. A fun way to practice sight words, or ca...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Egg Carton Phonics
Make a simple game to practice letter sounds out of an egg carton. Kids love to shake the carton and open it to discover where the marker landed. This could also be used to practice new words by putting the words on the small, round removable labels used for color coding files, which can easily be replaced as words are mastered.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-7
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Eat Your Words - Idioms
Give your students a chance to figure out the "idiom of the day." This file contains a list of American idioms with their meaning, and examples of each idiom used in a sentence. Cut apart the large examples with the sentence and post one each day for students to try to figure out.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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NAME IT VOCABULARY GAME
Colorful board game and alphabet cards. Players move around the board by rolling a die. When they land on a space they choose an alphabet card. They then must name a word in that catagory (such as a place, a noun, a 5 letter word) that begins with that letter. Great for expanding vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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