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Holiday Edition Word Noodles: Vocabulary Games for Kids- No Prep
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No Prep- No Guilt- Holiday FUN in the classroom!!
Grab this new Holiday Edition of the best selling word games: Word Noodles!!
Let your students work on their vocabulary while having fun during these crazy holiday months!
Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas included!!
You get 34 Puzzles (9 for each holiday) plus a word scramble and coloring sheet for each holiday!
BONUS: One puzzle of each kind for NEW YEAR'S!!! Now, you already have something to give the students as a bell ringer on the first day back in January!
NOT FAMILIAR WITH WORD NOODLES?
Introducing WORD NOODLES- A Word Connections Game for Kids and I-SPY: Word Search for Kids!! Just like the NYT’s Connections and Strands Games, students will beg to play.
Why use Word Noodles and 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 Word Noodle 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
About Word Noodles:
Answer Keys provided
Students choose the color for each group of words.
Groups are not color-coded for difficulty like NYT games
Use teacher discretion on the categories created by students. Answer Key is meant to be a guide.
About I-SPY:
Answer Keys provided
Students are only given the puzzle and category- NO WORD LIST
Word List is provided for Teachers to use at their discretion.
About Mini-Doodles:
Answer Keys provided
Students are only given the puzzle and clues- NO WORD LIST
Adaptation and Modification is easy!
Word Noodle and I-SPY can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom depending upon the vocabulary level of your students.
SUGGESTIONS FOR USE:
Word Noodle Wednesdays/ I-SPY Friday
Daily Morning Work
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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Have a question? Need Support? You can email me directly at kbaust@cedarhousepublishingllc.com.
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Kim- The Literature Lady
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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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