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Word Noodles & I-SPY Word Games: NYT Strands and Connections for Kids
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Word Noodles & I-SPY Word Games!
Start the new year with 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' Connections and Strands Game?
Stop playing a game for adults, and start playing one that will build your students' reading skills!
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!
50 Word Noodle Puzzles and 50 I-SPY have been carefully crafted to methodically build a child's vocabulary plus so much more!
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:
⭐ 50 Puzzles
⭐ Answer Keys provided
⭐ Puzzles begin easy and progressively get more difficult
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:
⭐ 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.
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
Bundle and save! Word Noodles 1-50 and I-SPY Word Find 1-50 are $7.50 each ($15 separately). Get both games in this bundle for $12.
Format
PDF
✓ NYT Strands
✓ NYT Connections
✓ Bell Ringers
✓ word search
✓ no prep
✓ vocabulary
✓ Word Noodles 1-50: 50 Puzzles, Answer Keys provided, puzzles begin easy and progressively get more difficult
✓ I-SPY Word Find 1-50: 50 Puzzles, Answer Keys provided, puzzles begin easy and progressively get more difficult
✓ Word List provided for Teachers to use at their discretion (I-SPY)
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What Teachers Are Saying ★★★★★
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ispy for a new generation
i am always looking for ways to add variety and interest in my vocab lessons. thanks!
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Engaging Resource
I use this resource with my high level readers. They always enjoy it!
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Fun activity
Fun and new activity to use in my class. Easy to use.
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great resource!
Great resource for early finishers, I have some students who needed enrichment and this was great for them
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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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