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| Grades | K – 2 |
| Interactive Type | Learning About Language |
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| URL | http://www.readwritethink.org /files/resources/interactives /wordwizard/ |
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ABOUT THIS INTERACTIVE |
This highly interactive activity supports critical thinking and problem solving while also building students' comprehension and spelling skills. Students start by choosing puzzles based on four popular U.S. children's books. They are then prompted to use clues to identify words from a list of scrambled letters. The final clue is based on an event or theme from their chosen book, which supports story comprehension and makes the activity meaningful and fun. Audible prompts and hints guide students to solve the sometimes challenging word puzzles. After completing a section, students may choose to begin another series of puzzles based on the same book or may choose a different book. This engaging interactive tool would work well with pairs or small groups, either in one session or across multiple sessions.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Word Wizards: Students Making Words
The Word Wizard activities in this lesson transform phonics from drudgery into delight! Students manipulate letters to make different words.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Vocabulary With Franklin: Helping Students Become Word Wizards
Students will be word wizards after they’ve completed this lesson of vocabulary and spelling games and activities.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes’s book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.
Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.
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Children's book author Eric Carle was born on this day in 1929.
After reading one of Eric Carle's books, students create a torn paper collage or a word collage.
Grades 7 – 12 | Calendar Activity | May 28
National Spelling Bee Finals are held this week.
Students discuss why certain contests get more publicity than others and what counts as "knowledge."
