The best teacher trick ever? Turn it into a game. Put the word game in front of any activity and your kiddos are suddenly engaged and attentive. It’s freaken’ magic. One of our favorite we-have-a-few-minutes-left-before-we-check-our-schedule games is List as Many as You Can. This activity focuses on vocabulary, speed, cognitive skills, creative thinking, and literacy skills.
List as Many as You Can:
- Give the students a topic. List as many animals, food, words that start with B, etc.
- Make this simple: basic categories {food, animals, clothes, people, letters, numbers, toys}
- Make this complicated: advanced categories {appliances, plants, vehicles}, attributes {things that are blue, things that are small, breakfast foods}, or literacy concepts {things that rhyme with pot, words that start with Sh}
- Set the timer.
- Start the timer. Let the students write. When the timer stops, pencils down!
- Have the students read their answers.
This is part of our Daily Leveled Work!
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