Vocabulary 'Head' Game

Vocabulary development is an important part of all content areas.  One engaging, student-centered way to get your students to practice is with the game Headbandz. We found Headbandz at our local Target store.  With index cards, we created content vocabulary cards.  Students had to walk around the room and get & give clues to their card and the cards on their classmates. They had a BLAST and they were working on the higher side of Bloom's, as they had to really own the meanings of the words on their heads to explain and correctly give and get clues.  For more fun and easy vocabulary games, check us out at TpT or here.

Why Fight It? Just let 'em watch.

Practice, practice, practice.  If your kiddos want to watch TV, let them.  Simply mute the TV and make them read the captions. Not only are they reading but their fluency will improve.  After all, they'd have to have fluency to keep up.

Yea! We are delighted to finally have time to jump in to this new venture. The lists successful of ideas and activities are long. Uploading them all and getting them out to all of you is going to be a challenge but one we are taking on with pride and enthusiastic excitement.

Where to start?  Reading? Math? Science? Writing? Social Studies?  Who knows? The answer lies in the need and the need changes from teacher to teacher, so we picked randomly and the winner is...Reading & Literacy.