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Games and Activities

Below you'll find reading games and activities to help teach important reading concepts in the classroom and at home. Interactive activities like these make learning more fun for students and help them to understand the material.

Synonyms Game

Synonyms Game

Homeschoolers and teachers will love this one, plus any of you word fiends will enjoy it as well. It is…

Winter Reading and Writing Activity

Brrrr….winter is here and it’s cold outside!  What better way to bring winter fun into a warm classroom than reading…

Creative Review For Synonyms and Adjectives – Acrostic Poems Activity

Though grammar lessons are sometimes perceived as dry and boring, there is an abundance of fun activities to reinforce the…

Poetry Activity For Reviewing Parts of Speech – Designing Diamantes

Once students have learned parts of speech such as nouns, verb forms, and adjectives, a fun and cumulative review can…

Reading Activities For Struggling Readers

If you’re a teacher working with students who are struggling to read, you know it can be a very frustrating…

Reading Activities for Making Inferences

Reading Activities for Making Inferences

Proficient readers understand that writers often tell more than they actually say with words. They give you hints or clues…

Reading Activities to Boost Comprehension

Reading Activities to Boost Comprehension

As every teacher and parent knows, one of the most important milestones in a child’s life is learning to read.…

Guided Reading Activities – Making Predictions

Guided Reading Activities – Making Predictions

Guided reading is a popular and highly effective strategy for helping students become proficient and masterful readers.  It’s one component…

Fun Activities For Teaching Homophones

Fun Activities For Teaching Homophones

Homophones, or homonyms, are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. For example, “toad” and…

Imperative Sentences Learning Activity – New “School Rules” Posters

When students learn to read and explore the written word, they quickly learn sentences do a lot of things.  They…

Two Fun Activities For Teaching and Learning Declarative Sentences

Two Fun Activities For Teaching and Learning Declarative Sentences

Since declarative sentences are the most common sentence type found in literature, usually students quickly grasp their purpose and function. …

Boost Reading Comprehension With Personification, Metaphors and Simile

If you could watch a student’s writing progression from first grade through middle school, it might look something like this:…

Reading Activity – Getting Into Character

Reading Activity – Getting Into Character

For some students, independent reading is a time of joy and discovery.  For others…not so much.  Try as you might…

Reading Activity – Learning Digraphs

When students are immersed in phonics and learn that each letter of the alphabet makes a sound (sometimes more than…

“Questions Only” – A Fun Interrogative Sentence Game

“Questions Only” – A Fun Interrogative Sentence Game

No matter how enthusiastic teachers are when it’s time for grammar lessons, it’s a sure bet he or she will…

“Wham!” A Fun Game For Learning About Exclamatory Sentences

“Wham!” A Fun Game For Learning About Exclamatory Sentences

One of the most challenging tasks for budding young writers is learning when and how to introduce strong emotion into…

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