"Singly, the most useful thing I had in my classroom last year"
-1st Grade Teacher, Queensboro, New York
Game: The student places the word card into the matching pocket.
Level 1 extension: Write the words in alphabetical order.
Level 2 extension: List the words that end with the letter n. Change the n to another letter to make a new word.
Level 3 extension: Do the same as above with words that end with the letter t.
Level 4 extension: Look at the words. Can you add an e to the end of any of these words to make a new word? Make a list and define or illustrate the new words. What happened to the letter a?
Game: Sort the word/picture cards into the correct pocket.
Level 1 extension: List all the "g" as in goat words in alphabetical order.
Level 2 extension: List all the "g" as in giraffe words in alphabetical order.
Level 3 extension: Underline the letter g and the vowel to the right on both of the lists above. Do you notice a pattern? Can you write a rule to to tell others how to pronounce the letter "g"?
Game: Sort the picture cards into the correct word pocket.
Level 1 extension: List all the words in alphabetical order.
Level 2 extension: List the words as nouns or adjectives.
Level 3 extension: Write some sentences using the adjectives on the list to describe the nouns on the list.
Game: Sort the picture cards into the correct word pocket.
Level 1 extension: List all the words with double consonants in one list and the rest of the words in a second list.
Level 2 extension: Cross out any silent letters in each of the words and mark the vowels as short, long and silent.
Level 3 extension: Break the words into syllables. Can you make a rule for the syllabication of words with doulde consonants?
Game: Sort the Word/picture cards into the correct pocket.
Level 1 extension: List the rhyming words together.
Level 2 extension: Can you add rhyming words to each list that are spelled with the double "o"? Can you add rhyming words that are spelled differently?
Level 3 extension: Make each word on the word/picture cards into a plural word. Which words have the same spelling for both singular and plural form.
Game: Sort the picture cards into the correct word pocket.
Level 1 extension: Write the words on a separate piece of paper adding an adjective in front of each word.
Level 2 extension: Add a verb after each word on the list above.
Level 3 extension: Mark the vowels in all the words as long, short, or silent.
Game: Sort the picture cards into the correct word pocket.
Level 1 extension: Write the words in alphabetical order.
Level 2 extension: Cross out all silent letters in each of the words.
Level 3 extension: Use the words to make 3 lists: Alist of nouns, a list of verbs and a list of words that can be used as either a noun or a verb.