- This version of I Spy students will be asked to spy the
beginning sound of a certain word rather than a letter. PHONEMIC This activity can be used on the smartboard in the AWARENESS: front of the classroom or on individual worksheets for I SPY THE students to use with a partner or small group. SOUND - Kindergarten level Materials: worksheet - Create a set of flash cards with the uppercase and lowercase for 8 letters. Separate students into groups of two or three, with each child receiving three cards, with the remaining cards going into the pile. Have children play Go fish. Each child should ask another PHONICS: member of their group for a letter to try to make a match. If there is no match, they draw a new card form GO FISH! the pile to add to their hand. - Kindergarten or first grade level - materials: flashcards ADVANCED - Students divide up all the words first. Then they roll a die, read a word in the column they rolled and WORD cover it. They continue until all words are covered. READING: - Second grade level CODE, ROLL, - Materials: paper, dice, and counter to cover when AND READ finish. - Write vocabulary words on cards or craft sticks and place in a paper bag. Write the work ‘Pop!’ on three to five cards or sticks and add them to the bag as well. To play, students will take turns drawing cards or sticks out of the bag, reading the word and giving the definition. If they correctly VO C ABULARY: define the word, they keep the card or stick. If not, THE POP it goes back in the bag. If they pull the word Pop! GA ME they must return all the cards or sticks to the bag and start over. The player with the most cards or sticks wins. - Any grade level since the words can be easily changed. - Materials: flashcards, popsicle sticks, bag, - Sentence trees are terrific reading activities that build fluency in younger students. They allow kids to focus on each word, improving accuracy and FLUENCY: speed along the way. Students will read the first word. Then they will add a word onto the sentence SENTENCE until they have read the entire sentence TREES - Could be any grade level depending on what the sentence is. - Materials: flashcard with the sentence on it. - retell gloves are an accessory with labels that can easily change. For fiction retellings, you can include setting, characters, problem, events, and solution. For nonfiction retellings, you can include main idea C O M P R E HE NS I ON: and supporting details. At the bottom of the glove, R E T E LL G L OV E S you can focus on making connections. - Any grade level - Materials: glove, label of each part to put on the glove - This activity encourages students to see the poetry in the everyday language around them while helpfully reinforcing their understand of some of the conventions of the genre. Have students ‘scavenge’ their school, home or outside in the WRITING: community for snippets of language they can compile into a piece of poetry or a poetic collage. POETRY They may copy down or photograph words, SC AVENGER phrases, and sentences from signs, magazines, or even snippets of conversations they overhear while HUNT out and about. - 2nd – 4th grade - Materials: magazines, old book, pictures of billboards, scissors, glue - Divide the class into two teams. One team will start ‘at bat’, scoring runs by choosing questions worth one, two or three bases. You’ll ‘pitch’ at the questions, which range in difficulty depending on MATH: how many bases they’re worth. If the at-bat team answers incorrectly, the defending team can MATH correctly respond to earn an out. After three outs, B ASEB ALL switch sides. Play until one team hits 10 runs or give for a shorter entry or exit ticket. - Any grade levels. - Materials: smartboard, math card problems