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Slap Jack:
This activity is used for cvc,vccv,v,cv word patterns. Two player game and one person goes and draws a card out of the pile and either slaps it if it matches on of the patterns to the pervious card. If it doesn't match the pervious card pattern and is slapped then that person has to take the whole stack. to win you want to have all the cards out of the deck
Story Question Cube
http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/writing.htm
Students discuss the parts of a story using a question cube. 1. Place text and question cube at the center. Provide each student with a student sheet. 2. The students read the text or review the teacher read-aloud. 3. Taking turns, roll the question cube, read the question, and answer it in relation to the text. 4. Discuss and write or illustrate the answer on the student sheet. 5. Continue until student sheet is complete.

Film Making
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/speaking-and-listening/film-making

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Pair Them Up:
Have this activity be used for plurals and its a memory and concentration game. The first player starts the game by turning two cards over and trying to match the words. Each time someone picks two that match they can keep going until they find a pair that doesn't match, then the next player gets to go. The person who finds the last or most pairs wins.

Silly Sentence Mix-up
http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/writing.htm
Place the sentence strips face down in three separate stacks. Place crayons at the center. Provide each student with a student sheet. 2. Taking turns, students choose one sentence strip from each stack, place the strips in numerical order, read the sentence, and place it aside. 3. Continue making sentences selecting strips from each stack until all strips are used. 4. Select two meaningful and two silly sentences, record, and illustrate on student sheet. Place☺next to each silly sentence.

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Weekly Word Study Notebook Dictionary Assignments:
This activity would require a dictionary and have a word bank for each week that they can find in the dictionary. You can do different categories for the words. Then have them write in their notebooks each word and the definition based on the dictionary. Keep doing this activity to help the students different words and patterns to work with.

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Compare and Contrast Guide:
Learn how to write compelling and convincing essays with different methods in this tutorial.
http://powermylearning.org/student/activities
Research Building Blocks - Choosing the Best Print Resources:
Evaluate a nonfiction resource to see if it is the right choice to use for your research.
http://powermylearning.org/student/activities

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Acrostic Poem
http://powermylearning.org/student/activities
What is an acrostic poem? Find out here and create your own!
It teaches he students what an acrostic poem is and how to write their own. Then they write their own.

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Word-O or Word Operations:
This activity can be used to help student when in the within the word pattern stage because it shows students how to analogy can help them spell. Have the students use consonatns, blends, and diagraphs words. Then have them add or drop letters from a word to make a new word.

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Dictionary Bees:
Every student si to use a dictionary, and this can be taken as a contest. Then tell the students the word and have them count how many pages they had to turn to find it. The person with the lowest amount of pages win.  This helps the students get use to using a dictionary and keeps it fun learning words.

Word Confusion
http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html
Help Regan the Vegan make fresh salad. Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. This helps students with recognizing words and there prefix's. It also is a fun game to do during class time on the smart board.

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Think-Pair-Share:
This activity is always welcomed and used in classrooms. This can allow the students to share their knowledge of language with a partner. This also outs their social skills into play.

The translator Alligator
http://www.funbrain.com/lang/index.html
FunBrain.com will show a word.

For each screen, identify the correct word in the foreign language. Click on the correct word, or type in the name (spelling counts).

If you select levels 3 or 4, you will be given a foreign language word and have to answer with the correct English word.
This helps students who are ELS and ELL which are basically the same. Also students who are having a hard time identifying words. this is offered in two different languages.

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Train Station Game:
This works on long vowel patterns. have words on the map and the students have to roll or pick up a piece of paper to determine how many step they get to move on the board. They can either go forward or backwards on the board and the first one to reach the train station wins the game.

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Transportation Unit:
Have a theme like cars, and have a book about cars and have objects or pictures to be able to allow students to touch and sort them. Let the students pick the categories and listen to them explain why and how they chose it. Then give them paper to write the categories and draw or write the pictures or objects on. This helps thinking, and spelling.

The Grammar Gorilla
http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html
Our friends, the Spelling Gorillas, need help finding which word is spelled wrong. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal. Also helps with sight word recgonition

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Two for One! Long Words, Short Words:
This works on long and short vowels. talk about words that can be two but are made into one like snow-man. have visual aids of these words. then ask which word is longer and have the  studentsgo and answer more about other words.

Here Clifford
http://powermylearning.org/student/activities
Read and click the words to help Emily Elizabeth find Clifford in this read along adventure.

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Concept Books and Concept Sorts :
Pick an easy book about colors like " is it red?". Have the students identify the pictures on in the book and what color they are. Then pick objects around the room to have student relate to the story and be able to sort. Then label each category and have the students sound out the words. Then let the students know they can use these objects if they need to while working.

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Match and Sort Rhyming Pictures:
Do after reading a rhyming book. Have sort of pictures and words that rhyme. Then model and do one sort so the students can see how to organize them. Then have the students do the rest on their own or with a partner.

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Support Reading with Rhymes and Pattern Stories:
This activity can be spread over four days.
You pick a story or rhyme, jingle, or song that you want to share with the class and then introduce the book or song. Then do a book walk and then read and stop to asks questions. Make a word bank for the students. Then have students use the word banks and sentence strips to put together sentences and parts of the story. Then keep going over different parts.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
http://www.funbrain.com/journal/Journal.html?ThisJournalDay=1&ThisPage=1#booktop:
This is the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid to have our 3rd graders or up to read. It is a comic and story book with writing and sentences. It also relates to students.

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Jeopardy Game:
Basically set up a board with numbers like jeporday and have five different catergoires to choose from. Then have one person be the host and three constants, taking turns between students. Then have them choose a catergory and amount and answer the questions until all is done and whoever has the highest score wins.

Read  Newspaper
http://powermylearning.org/student/activities
Have the students read the whole newspaper or an article and then have them write a paragraph summarizing it and what happened. Then have them write their own article and share with the class.

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Word Roots:
This activity can be spread over 3 days.
Introduce Greek and Latin roots with Affixes and they combine. Then pick a word like predict. Then ask questions about it like what is the pre-fix of predict (pre). What does it mean? Then explain pre. then pick another word and discuss. Have them work and talk with a partner. then have a list of words for the students to put into categorizes based on their root word. Then have them work with a partner and discuss the meaning of the word. Then have to students share what they found and did.

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Root Webs:
Design a root web and pick one word like photo. Then have the students tell you some words that use photo. and write them on the web that connects to the middle word. this helps the students see base and root words.

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"I'm Out"
This activity is basically like go fish! Have 20-30 cards made with different words on them from a,a-a,ay, and ai sound pattern. Then deal each player cards until all is passed out. Then start with one person dealing a pattern card and everyone go's unless they don't have the pattern then they have to pass. You want to begin once everyone is out of that pattern sound and begin with another one in the first players hand. Play until someone runs out of cards and they are declared the winner.

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Put in an m or n: Preconsonantal Nasals:
Make cards that have pairs of preconsonantal words  and have them shuffle and deal all the word cards. Then have them lay down any pairs they have in their hands and go around and asks if another person if they have a match to one in their hands. Its like go Fish!

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Books and Concept Sorts:

Have a book to read.
Then pick out pictures from the book that can be made into real life objects.
After reading the book have the students sort each item out into categories and then have them explain in a full sentence what the item is and how it relates to the story. Pick key words to have them say and sound out. Then have them also label each item using the key words. Then have them make a book off of the pictures and story.