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Word Noodles: I-SPY Word Find- NYT Strands Game for Kids: Make Vocabulary Fun Again
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Add a new, engaging, and fun word study habit! The benefits of playing word games regularly will last your students a lifetime!
Do you and your students love playing the New York Times’ Strands Game?
Stop playing a game for adults, and start playing one that will build your students’ reading skills!
Introducing I-SPY- A Word Search Game for Kids!! Just like the NYT’s Strands Game, students will beg to play!
50 I-SPY Puzzles have been carefully crafted to methodically build a child’s vocabulary- plus so much more!
Why use I-SPY in your classroom?
Word games are vital to a child’s vocabulary development and have long been heralded for their promotion of good brain health. Vocabulary development is essential to reading fluency and building life-long readers.
Playing I-SPY Word Find with your students will:
⭐ build schema/background knowledge
⭐ build memory
⭐ boost vocabulary
⭐ reinforce spelling skills
⭐ foster essential language skills
⭐ improve problem-solving and analytical skills
⭐ learn new words while mastering sight words
⭐ foster critical thinking skills
⭐ promote emotional well-being
⭐ build life-long habits
⭐ increase concentration
⭐ teach children to be “OK” with struggling
📌 Students are only given the puzzle and category- NO WORD LIST
📌 Starting at puzzle #25, the category isn’t explicit- but the title hints at it, just like in the Strands game.
📌 Word List is provided for Teachers to use at their discretion.
Adaptation for Younger Students:
Give students the word list.
SUGGESTIONS FOR USE:
⭐ I-SPY Mondays
⭐ Daily Morning Work/ Bell Ringers
⭐ Independent Work for those needing to build vocabulary
⭐ Small Group Activity
⭐ Independent Challenge Work for advanced students
⭐ Reading groups
⭐ Full Class- projected activity
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Format
PDF
✓ word search
✓ vocabulary
✓ word study
✓ 50 Puzzles
✓ Answer Keys provided
✓ Puzzles begin easy and progressively get more difficult
✓ Students are only given the puzzle and category- NO WORD LIST
✓ Starting at puzzle #25, the category isn’t explicit- but the title hints at it, just like in the Strands game.
✓ Word List is provided for Teachers to use at their discretion.
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!"
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