Trick or Treat
Photo credit: roomrecess.com Trick or Treat is a game that students can play to practice determining character traits, story settings, and vocabulary.
Category: 4th & 5th Grade Reading
Tone
Photo credit: roomrecess.com Tone is a game that allows students the chance to practice reading the tone of various paragraphs.
Recommended Books
Sharing interesting books is a great way to develop a joy of reading. Books are incredible because of their interesting plots, charismatic characters, imaginative settings, eventful adventures, unraveled mysteries, and explored human dramas hook readers. Disclaimer: Please buy the books below to support the efforts of the writers, illustrators, and the publishers that make books […]
Supurb Sentence Structure
Photo credit: BYU MCOM Watch the video above to learn about sentence structure.
Active Vs. Passive Voice
Photo credit: BYU MCOM See the video above, to see how active voice is achieved by keeping the subject and verb close to each other within a sentence. Photo credit: BYU MCOM Watch this video to see how to use strong verbs in active voice. It helps to clarify, by first knowing who is doing […]
The Sticky “i”
Photo credit: Nessy Learning LLC The Sticky “i” is a short video that teaches students why “tion”, “cian”, and “sion” create the sound /shun/. It also teaches a spelling strategy to help students remember which of the three is used most frequently in words. Save
Using Quotation Marks – Beyond the Basics
Photo credit: The Quiet Creative This video teaches students where to place quotation marks (example: “”), in relation to punctuation marks (example: .!?). Quotation marks are also known as quotes, speech marks, & talking marks among other names. Save
Should you use “a” or “an”?
Photo credit: engVid Gill teaches students when is is appropriate to use “a” and when “an” should be used. The exceptions to the rule are also included. Also, at the end of this video, students have a chance to practice what they have learned. Save Save
Theme Game
Photo credit: roomrecess.com Kid Heroes Theme is a game from roomrecess.com that provides students practice at determining the theme of a piece of writing, as well as a chance to develop reading comprehension. Save
Balloon Popping Fun!
Photo credit:roomrecess.com Prefix Popper is a game that helps students learn about the meanings of prefixes. Disclaimer: this game requires flash. Save