Word games for kids

4 Games to Help Kids Think Critically about Vocabulary Guest Post by Rachael Parlett from Classroom Game Nook Blog.

Hi friends! I'd love to show you my favorite digraphs activities for first grade and kindergarten that you can use to teach those tricky dig...

Free spelling activities perfect for any word work or sight word center! These activities are engaging for Kindergarten, first, and second grade students.

Booklets to help you teach and track sight words, word families, short vowels, long vowels.

We’re going to make some sight word pirate ships, pop them on the ocean then try and sink our enemies! This is a fun way to practice sight words (or any words you’re working on), both reading and writing them. Plus kids get to practice reading numbers to 50 at the same time. Scroll right [...]

Here's a great idea for an alternative to sight word flash cards. Pick up some paint sample strips from your local hardware store and write sight words, spelling words or even topic words. You could use them for testing, writing stations, genre writing and more. Perhaps you could record word families, rhyming words, or other spelling pattern. by Karen Hoggan

Eureka posters and charts will capture the attention of your audience. Each design is printed on one side of a heavy weight card stock and can be re-used for many years. Each poster measures 17" x 22". - Dr. Seuss content - word families - Each poster is 17" x 22" - Printed on one side

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This sight word game is quick and easy making learning on the go fun!

The Verb Game., Teacher Idea #1477 in the Digest of Ideas at TeacherIdea - Where Teachers Share Great

Hey Y'all! I thought I would take the opportunity to post some of the things my kiddos do with their sight words. Sight Word Hamburgers M...

Short A is usually the first phonics sound you teach in kindergarten and first grade so I figured it'd be a great sound to show you teaching...

Who don't like fun games? If you happen to be looking for some fun free activities for kids that include games to build their basic skills, then the following printable games will be a great way to inspire and develop literacy skills!

This year instead of doing the same old weekly spelling words with a test on Friday, we changed things up a bit. We still have a list of words for the week, but we are finding ways to make it more fun and meaningful. Here are some of our favorite activities that will work with any list of words! ... Read More about 8 Fun Spelling Word Activities (Word Work)

In this post, we have a collection of 5x5 and 4x4 square of letters Boggle word game, with three minutes to find as many words as possible. Check them out!