Examples+&+Links




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 * [|The Icon Game] || All Grades || ======This game helps with the following skills: Communication of ideas, higher level thinking, social and emotional intelligence's, summarization, and comprehension.====== ||
 * [|Name That Literary Element] || All Grades || This interactive online game allows students to practice identifying various literary elements that they may encounter in their reading. After being introduced to each literary element that may occur, students are able to participate in this fun, interactive activity where they have to choose the correct literary element that would describe the meaning of a particular word or sentence. ||
 * [|Vocabulary Response to Literature] || 6-12 || This website contains several interactive games that focus on answering questions regarding definitions of words, or various uses for literary elements. These games are designed to draw kids in and make learning fun by allowing students to work towards the grand reward of 'flinging their teacher' or achieve the highest score after answering a certain number of questions correctly. ||
 * [|Literature Charades] || All Grades || As a way to monitor students' memory of books that you have previously read as a class, or with small groups, students can draw titles of books or the names of characters in the books, concentrating on those that have been most popular. After reviewing the standard charade signals, students can be divided into teams and compete to see who remembers the most about their reading! ||
 * [|Author's Purpose PIE'ed] || All Grades || This bundled product takes the PIE approach to teaching author's purpose a step further. Students are taught to determine whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, entertain, describe, or explain. ||
 * [|Computer Lab Favorites] || K-2 & 3-5 || Various games that work on different skills such as rhyming, spelling, word endings, and writing. ||
 * [|Literature Board Game] || All Grades || Board games are another great way to engage students in response activities, and allow for important review of material in a fun and familiar format. Board games can either be created by teachers beforehand, or students can be responsible for creating and designing their own game and set of questions. This response method works well for reviewing longer books that contain many different characters and events, such as //The Odyssey//. ||
 * **Horse Race** || All Grades || [[file:Racing_Game_Instructions-1.doc]]

No preparation required, just have a sheet of vocabulary or review questions in your hand. Click a button on the screen and the car or horse moves one step closer to the finish line and victory. //(Whole Class Participation Game)// || The other great part about bingo is that you can make a game specifically designed for what your students are learning, ||
 * [|Educational Bingo] || All Grades || There are literally countless ways to use bingo. Bingo can be used for phonics, vocabulary, spelling, sounds of letters.
 * Skyrim || 8-12 || media type="youtube" key="5xwboyafbwc?feature=player_embedded" height="321" width="565"

 || || This link provides you with a list of 40+ games. The list states whether the game is good for physical skills, target vocabulary, and grammar. The article then goes on to explain each of the games in detail. Finally, it provides you with blank copies of the materials if necessary. [] || media type="youtube" key="bA7KuOyH3PQ?feature=player_embedded" height="360" width="640"
 * ELA Skills:** Inferencing, Audience, Characterization, Purpose, Media Form, Tone, Mood, Theme, Perspective, Point of View, Style, Metaphor, Symbolism, Propaganda, Rhetoric ||
 * **[|Reading Celebration Games]** || 1-4 || Like many board games, students need to perform a task before they can take their turn. The tasks include answering questions like Tell a fact you've learned from an information book, or Give a short summary of the book you’re reading now, or even Tell your favorite book character. Explain why this character was your favorite. There are 32 question cards, 8 game cards, and 8 extra cards for you to make up your own questions. Open Ended Reading Celebration Game is perfect for celebrating books at the end of the school year, or reading groups focused on books and comprehension.
 * [|Response to Reading Tic-Tac-Toe] || 3-8 || This is a fun game of Tic-Tac-Toe that engages readers in 9 activities to complete as they finish independently reading a book! Students have a month complete three activities in a row in response to their reading, They can create a billboard, diary entries, a newspaper, a scrapbook, an interview, a timeline, a comic strip, a letter and response, and a poem. These activities increase comprehension with the use of hands on rigorous tasks.
 * **[|Jeopardy Game]** || All grades || This game is a classic! It is great to for working on these specific items: author info, Comprehension Questions, Review Game, Test. This is an example f a Jeopardy game for a specific unit but you can use Jeopardy and this example and create your own Jeopardy game. There are many templates available online to use to create your own: [] and [] for example. media type="youtube" key="NV5UNWMn-jM?feature=player_detailpage" height="360" width="640" ||
 * [|Literacy Games] || Primary || This site contains a whole list of direct links that focus on different literacy skills.
 * [|Halloween Fluency Game] || Primary || This game may be used in cnojunction with Halloween readings and to spark conversations about the books read. ||
 * [|Spelling/Vocabulary] || Elementary || Although this site isn't geared toward reading response a teacher may use it to help with vocabulary in a book or unit. ||