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By Maggie Blemings ACTIVITY BOOK

- 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

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