Literature Games

Do you use Benchmark Literacy? Are you looking for extra activities to use with your kids? This Four in a Row game is perfect to use in your classroom! It goes along with Benchmark Literacy Phonics Unit 1 - l-family blends (cl, bl, fl, pl, and sl). In this product you will find four different versions to use in your classroom. The first two pages of this document have only the decodable words for this unit. The third and fourth page of this document have decodable words along with the sight words. How I use Four in a Row in my classroom: The students play with a partner and each group gets a set of double sided counters. Our counters are yellow and red. One student is red and the other student is yellow. The students take turns and say a word. If the word is read correctly, the student can put a counter on that space. The other student gets a turn and place a counter on the space if they say the word correctly. If a student says a word incorrectly, they do not get to place a counter on the space and it is the other person’s turn. The game continues until one student has four counters in a row across, diagonally, or up and down. Unit 1 "BANG" game Other 1st Grade Benchmark Literacy Phonics Activities *** How to get TeachShare credits to use on future purchases *** Go to your My Purchases page. Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button, click it and you will be taken to a page where you can leave a quick rating and a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you provide feedback, you’ll earn TeachShare credits that can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Plus, the feedback you provide helps me make my products better suit your needs! *** How To Follow My Store *** Click the green star beside my name at the top of this page OR at the top of my store page. Following me notifies you when I post a new item and you will receive customized email updates about my store.

Look no further for a great word search featuring the characters of Divergent! This product can be used as a character review for a quiz or test, homework, a flex activity, or even a substitute plan. Kids love puzzles and word searches are a great way to improve spelling while having fun.

**Word Search is included both in color and in black and white.**

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Check out these great resources to supplement your unit on Divergent by Veronica Roth:

⭐ Divergent Unit Test

⭐ Divergent Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials

⭐ Divergent "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity

⭐ Divergent Faction Personality Quiz

⭐ Divergent Fear Landscape Assignment

⭐ Divergent Symbolism Lesson Plan: Tattoos of Divergent Characters

⭐ Divergent Mock Choosing Ceremony - Lesson Plans and Materials

⭐ Divergent Faction Acrostic Poem Assignment

⭐ Divergent Worksheet Bundle

⭐ Divergent Final Project - Long Lost Sixth Faction

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File Folder Uppercase & lowercase Letter Match:

This is a great file folder game for your students. It’s a fun way for your students to practice matching the correct Uppercase and lowercase letters together. There is #2 pages of Uppercase letters as well as #2 pages of lowercase letters.

Print, laminate and attach the #2 pages of the Uppercase Letters (rainbows) to a file folder. Then cut out and laminate the clouds with the lowercase letters on them.

I would recommend getting small velcro dots and attaching them to the front of the rainbows as well as the back of the pieces of the clouds to make the matching process easier.

Unlock the imagination and storytelling skills of your students with our Dungeons and Dragons Character Creation Template for Kids! This versatile resource is designed to introduce children to the exciting world of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) while fostering their speaking and listening skills in the classroom.

Key Features:

1. Engaging Creativity: Dive into the fantastical realm of Dungeons and Dragons as students create their own unique characters. From brave warriors to cunning wizards, the template allows children to unleash their creativity and develop compelling backstories for their characters.
2. Interactive Learning: With a focus on speaking and listening, this template encourages students to collaborate and communicate with their peers. As they discuss character traits, abilities, and motivations, they hone their verbal communication skills and learn to articulate their ideas effectively.
3. Critical Thinking: Character creation in Dungeons and Dragons involves strategic decision-making and problem-solving. Students must consider various factors such as race, class, and skills, fostering critical thinking skills as they make choices for their characters.
4. Narrative Development: Through character creation, students develop narrative skills as they craft detailed backgrounds and personalities for their characters. They learn to weave compelling stories and develop empathy as they step into the shoes of their fictional personas.
5. Social Interaction: Dungeons and Dragons is a collaborative game that encourages teamwork and cooperation. By working together to create characters, students build positive relationships with their peers and learn the value of communication and cooperation.

Why Use This Resource for Speaking and Listening Classes?

• Promotes Oral Communication: The character creation process provides ample opportunities for students to engage in oral communication as they discuss character traits, motivations, and goals with their peers.
• Fosters Active Listening: Students practice active listening skills as they listen to their peers' ideas and contributions during group discussions and collaborative decision-making.
• Encourages Collaboration: By working together to create characters, students learn to collaborate effectively, share ideas, and negotiate decisions, fostering a supportive and inclusive classroom environment.
• Develops Storytelling Skills: Character creation encourages students to develop storytelling skills as they craft detailed backstories and personalities for their characters, enhancing their ability to communicate ideas and narratives effectively.

How to Use in Your Classroom:

• Integrate the Dungeons and Dragons Character Creation Template into speaking and listening activities, allowing students to discuss character creation choices and collaborate with their peers.
• Use the template as a creative writing prompt, inspiring students to write stories based on their character creations.
• Incorporate role-playing exercises where students assume the roles of their characters and engage in dialogue with classmates.

Combine With:

• The Chimera Compendium - A monster manual of all the monsters in the game... so far.
• The Character Creator Template - a fresh character creator template for creating new characters for Classrooms & Chimeras
• The 6 Premade Character Sheets - 6 Premade characters including Gorim, Zephyra, Shadowtide, Aerin, Valerius and Whispering Wind
• The Character Creator + Premades Bundle with bonus Ghorbash - The whole character bundle with a bonus feathered fury with a pretty terrifying ultimate attack!
• The Student's Handbook - A guide to everything Classrooms & Chimeras instructing you on how to make a unique character and play, but more importantly, how to play well!
• The Classroom Master Guide - Episode 1: The Portals of Possibilities Campaign - A guide on how to run a TTRPG Classrooms & Chimeras game including all the content from the first campaign with the dreaded Mr. Jenkins, Slimes and Goblins!
• The Portal of Possibilities Interactive Presentation - Episode 1 - An interactive hyperlinked version of the TTRPG Classrooms & Chimeras game!

Ignite the imagination and communication skills of your students with our Dungeons and Dragons Character Creation Template for Kids. Watch as they embark on epic adventures and develop lifelong speaking and listening skills along the way!

Festive way to make connections:

Students read or watch A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, my students read A Christmas Carol and watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, for an engaging activity before the holiday. A Christmas Carol was a challenge for the students, so watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a fun distraction.

This active and engaging resource gets students moving and discussing. Students will make paper snowballs out of the provided cards. They will then use these for a snowball fight. When time is up, students will find a partner, uncrumple the paper, and have a discussion.

Students can reach connections and have discussions with the information they gather.

What's included:

• A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas cards for creating paper snowballs.
• Topics include: character, setting, theme, conflict, language, plot, and resolution.

Why this resource is helpful:

• Directions included.
• Print and go cards are easy for teachers.
• Students enjoy an indoor snowball fight.
• The nature of the activity causes random topics for discussion each round.

Test your reading comprehension of the fifth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth book with this hilarious almost 40-question multiple choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the fifth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 20-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• almost 40 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Review the entire play with your class! Jeopardy style! Students love this, it looks just like jeopardy with questions from each act of the play. A total of 31 slides with 30 clues for your students to answer. It's interactive and allows for students to have fun while reviewing the play. If you like this be sure to check out my other Romeo and Juliet products: R& J Vocabulary https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Romeo-and-Juliet-Vocabulary-words-and-quiz-2657140 R&J Bundle https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Romeo-and-Juliet-Bundle-2624360 Tragedies https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Shakespeare-Tragedies-All-Plays-2656553

Test your reading comprehension of the seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: The Third Wheel with this hilarious 35-question multiple choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 35 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the twelfth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: The Getaway with this hilarious 40-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the twelfth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 40-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the eighth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Hard Luck with this hilarious 34-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the eighth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 34 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Words That Rhyme - Pumpkin Themed:

This is a fun activity that not only focuses on matching rhyming words but also gives your students a way to practice their fine motor cutting skills. There are #10 different fall words (in both black and white as well as color). Each word has #5 different words to cut out and then choose which words rhyme with the fall themed word on the pumpkin. They will then glue the words that rhyme to the pumpkin. Below is a list of the #10 fall themed words. There is both a black and white copy as well as a copy in color for each word that you can choose from. Sometimes I prefer printing in color and then other times I like to give my students the opportunity to make it their own and color their work. So it just depends on which way you prefer!

List Of Fall Themed Words In This Package:

• Fall
• Leaf
• Bug
• Ghost
• Rake
• Tree
• Hay
• Bat
• Corn
• Nut

Test your reading comprehension of the sixth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Cabin Fever with this hilarious 32-question multiple choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the sixth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 32 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the eighteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: No Brainer with this hilarious 54-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the eighteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 54-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the eleventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Double Down with this hilarious 44-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the eleventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 44-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the third book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw book with this hilarious 40-question multiple choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the third book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 20-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• almost 40 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the sixteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Big Shot with this hilarious 33-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the sixteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 33-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the thirteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: The Meltdown with this hilarious 44-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the thirteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 44-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the seventeenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diper Overlode with this hilarious 45-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the seventeenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 45-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the fourteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Wrecking Ball with this hilarious 33-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the fourteenth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 33-multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

Test your reading comprehension of the ninth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: The Long Haul with this hilarious 32-question multiple-choice self-checking digital game - complete with a mystery puzzle!

Students must acquire and read the ninth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. After students read the book, they are ready to play the game! It's simple: click the link to access the game. The game gives you audio instructions and guides you. Read the question and choose the answer! You will know right away if you got the answer correct. Throughout the game, you will slowly reveal a secret mystery puzzle - see if you can guess the picture before the game ends! The game should take 15-30 minutes depending on the player's reading level.

What's Included?

• 32 multiple choice question self-checking digital game
• built-in mystery puzzle
• Printable Certificate of Completion PDF

Love,

Teacher Bethanie