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Grab this No-Prep Vocabulary Building must-have!

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’ Connections 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!! Just like the NYT’s Connections Game, students will beg to play!

50 Word Noodle Puzzles have been carefully crafted to methodically build a child’s vocabulary plus so much more!

Why use Word Noodles 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

What’s Included:

📌 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.

Adaptation for Younger Students:

Give students one word in each group or provide them with the categories.

Word Noodle 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

📚 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

Testimonials:

“I used these on “Word Noodle Wednesday” in my centers. A great way for students to think about classifying things. ”  -Dannielle A.

“My students love this type of activity and so do I. It is very similar to NYT connections game but at student level.”  -Lori T.

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