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Spell It Literacy Game Lesson Plan
Spell It Literacy Game Lesson Plan
Spell It Literacy Game Lesson Plan
A Literacy Game
Erin Lindgren
A THIRD GRADE SPELLING GAME
Standard: W.3.11 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Objective: Students will be able to correctly spell words from their spelling lists by
playing a board game with their peers that has them use their spelling list words.
The general idea for this game came from The Measured Mom: Tools for
Teaching. The website has ideas for educational activities and games that can
be done with kids at home and in the classroom.
Resource: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/spell-it-a-printable-spelling-game-for-any-
word-list-k-3/
To create the game you will need a poster board to draw the game board on
it. On the game board there needs to be a pre-decided number of tiles, I chose
to do 30 spaces, along with a start and finish tile. Around those tiles needs to
be space to write the directions of the game and two spaces to place the
playing cards before and after use. The playing cards can be made using
index cards. The number of playing cards is determined by however many
spelling words you want to include in the game. You will write one spelling
word on each playing card. For game pieces you can use pieces from other
games or have students make their own game pieces.
Game Directions:
Materials:
Differentiation: To differentiate the instruction of this game for different students, you
could use different level spelling words, either mixed in together or with different groups.
For what I am doing, I am using a mix of different levels of third grade spelling words. I am
dong this because the groups I am going to be working with will be a mixed level of
students, some will be at a higher or lower levels then others in the groups. Another way of
doing this could be to groups the students based on their developmental spelling level.
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Teacher(s): Erin Lindgren Grade Level: 3rd grade Date Taught: 04/04/2018
Lesson Title: Spell It Board Game Subject: Literacy Game Approximate Time Length: 10-15
minutes
Lesson Activities
each task
Time of
Write out detailed lesson procedures. Your plan should be detailed enough for another
teacher to teach it without having to ask you any questions. Numbering and/or bullets are
encouraged.
Teacher will explain to the students that are going to play a spelling board game, called
Spell It!, using the words from their spelling list. Teacher will split the students into groups
of 4 or 5. Teacher will then go through the directions of the game with all the students.
Directions:
8. Each player will place their game piece on start.
Directions
Beginning
9. Players will take turns rolling the die to see who goes first, the player with the
5 mins
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14. The first person to reach finish is the winner.
Teacher will make sure all the students understand the directions before letting them move
on.
Students will go through the game. Students will be kind and respectful to their peers as
they take turns playing the game. Students will ask teacher for help when needed. Teacher
Play time
10 mins
Middle
If the students finish a round of the game before the allotted 10 minutes to play are up,
the 10 mins is
game before
finishes the
they may continue to play more rounds of the game. This allows for continued engagement
If a group
in the content and allows the students further practice of the spelling words.
End
up
Adaptations/Accommodat ELL For ELL students the teacher could provide game materials in their
ions: What could YOU DO native language/s.
to adapt to help students
with learning disabilities,
students with learning Attention For students with attention issues the teacher could assign them a job
exceptionalities, &/or ELL issues for throughout the whole game. For example, these students could be
students with this lesson? in charge of reading the playing card for all turns except their own.