vocabulary building activities

4 pages.

Ripping and tearing paper is a fun way to strengthen finger muscles.  This craftivity also reinforces the letter F, alphabetizing skills, and compound words. To help build vocabulary, a list of 42 fire-related words is included.  This craftivity will be free for an entire year (!) after which time it will be up-dated and included in my whopping 40-page "F is for Fire: Fire Safety Word Work packet in my TpT shop. Click on the link to pop on over.  For your convenience, I've included a PREVIEW here.

32 pages

If your school has to fulfill the Constitution Day educational requirement, you'll enjoy this vocabulary-building packet.  There is a lot of vocabulary that goes along with explaining the Constitution. Many of these words are new to your students.  There are 42 Constitution-related word cards in this packet, with matching definition cards. 

15 pages.

This packet is an interesting and fun way to build students' vocabularies, reinforce verb usage, synonyms, and dictionary alphabetizing skills. Great for Daily 5 or a game students can play with a substitute teacher, or when you have a few extra minutes in your day.

18 pages.

Here's an alphabetical list of 794 pirate-related words and phrases, perfect for "Talk Like A Pirate" Day, or your other pirate-themed activities. 

5 pages.

Two simple St. Patrick's Day word searches to help practice spelling and increase vocabulary.  Includes answer keys.

11 pages.

You can do this as a whole group activity and jot down UP phrases as your students think of them, making one poster, or use this as an interesting activity for your Daily 5 word work and have students each make up their own. 

48 pages.

There are so many things you can do with this Olympic Word Packet.  Use the Olympic alphabet cards for games, a bulletin board boarder, puzzles, centers, flashcards, sorting, your word wall etc.  There's an alphabetical list of 528 words associated with the Olympics + 364 mini word cards students can alphabetize, or sort into nouns, verbs and adjectives on the Olympic word sorting mat.