Effective Reading Instruction

Fractions and decimals go fish. This game is handy for consolidating converting decimals to fractions. Just laminate and cut out the cards and students play. There is a matching fractions picture for each decimal. Students For 2 or 3 players (any more seems not to work very well). Each student receives either 5 or 8 cards each and the remainder of the deck is place face down in the middle of the players. Students turn taking goes in a clockwise directions asking if they have a fraction or decima

Contents: 24 high frequency CVC onset-rime slides with pics These slides work great for teaching beginning readers to sound out and begin chunking words into onset-rime. They help develop reading fluency and automatic word recognition skills for cvc words. Students find these slides highly engaging and fun to use. Teachers can use these in games for 1 on 1 reading instruction sessions or challenge each other to make words and match them with and image facilitating basic vocabulary development.

A powerpoint looking at various Santa Clauses etc. from different countries.

A brief Powerpoint on the History of Halloween.

Barrier Game Activity based on Connect 4 For Practicing asking each other if students can do, or play, various sports. Students have their own sheets of paper and cannot look at each other's while they are playing the game. Each student fills in their own & partners colours on their own sheet. The first to get 4 in a row is the winner.

This Powerpoint outlines the basic history of Christmas from its Nordic origins to the Romans, Christianity and to the modern era. Essentially it tries to tie the idea together that what started off as Odin flying around with flying wolves punishing people has gradually changed to a more modern pagan believe of Santa Claus flying around with reindeer rewarding people.It also looks at the history of christmas trees, candy canes etc.There are notes below some slides that may be more difficult to

Works like a regular Barrier Game. I.e. Students have their own copy of the activity sheets(which are identical) and they can not look at each other's sheets as they play the game. They use the modelled sentences to expplain to each other where they want to put their 0 or X.