|
![]() |
|||||
K-3 Teacher Resources
|
||||||
|
'101 Fun and Educational Flashcard Activities' ..... When are Flashcards NOT Flashcards?
I would use this document almost every day to plan for the following types of activities......
TOP 30 FLASHCARD ACTIVITIES.... 1. Immerse your Learning Area …. *Absolutely immerse your learning area with words and flashcards - hang them from the ceiling like a ladder, have them on the windows, pop them on your bulletin board displays, place them in themed buckets or hanging pockets. *Children need to be absolutely enveloped by all sorts of words - EVERYWHERE ! 2. Coin Toss / Beanbag Toss... *Place selected flashcard words on the floor face up. *Children take turns to toss the coin, or beanbag onto a word and then say that word. *Make this more difficult by asking the ‘tosser’ to throw onto a specific word or other clues, such as - a word beginning with ‘b’ or a word with the sound ‘oo’ in it, or a word with 4 letters for example. 3. Mini Cards... *Have a box of small blank mini cards or paper on hand at all times. *You can purchase ‘post it’ notes these days about the right size (approx. 10cm x 2cm). *Children use these to write down words from word walls, and charts - then take the words back to their writing. *These are also great for writing words on when doing writing conferences. 4. Make a Flashcard Dictionary... *Each child has a ‘scrapbook’ with each letter of the alphabet written at the top of every 2nd or 3rd page. *Whenever you present a new set of flashcards or words - print your chosen flashcards in black and white reducing the size to about 4in 1 in your printer settings. *Children cut these words out and glue them into the appropriate initial letter of their ‘dictionary scrapbook’ *Great for writing reference and word practice—by the end of the year they have a full scrapbook of all the words they have been ‘exposed’ to. 5. Mini Words…. *Print off smaller size words in black and white using the printer settings (for example 4in1 page). *These words are then cut up and put into a small lunch container to practise at home. *Send a copy of these ‘101 Flashcard Activities ‘home with parents as a reference for activities with these cards. 6. Who Am I ? Game... *Have your selected flashcards on display. *Children take turns giving ‘who am I’ clues for a chosen word. *For example, I am yellow, I have 5 letters, I end in ‘y’. *Other children guess the word. 7. Hangman…. *Have your selected flashcards on display. *Play ‘hangman’ using these flashcards as reference. 8. Find-a-Word in Reading Books... *Using your pile of chosen flashcards - children find each word in class reading books. *Write down each word and how many times they found it. *Could use a ‘tally’ for this. 9. Dominoes... *Using your chosen flashcards, deal them out so that each child has the same amount. *Children take turns placing their cards down making sure the last letter of one matches the first letter of another word card as in dominoes style. 10. Interactive Whiteboard Wordplay... *Set your IWB so that your chosen flashcards pdf file displays. *Children circle the letters, sounds, and patterns within the words. 11. Chinese Whispers…. *Children are sitting in a circle. *First child picks up a flashcard and whispers the word to the child next to them *The word get ‘whispered’ around to the last child who says to word out loud. Flashcard gets held up to check of correct. 12. Circle Letter Blends and Sounds…. *Use whiteboard markers to circle phonics blends and sounds within your laminated flashcards. 13. Circle Smaller Words Within Words... *Use whiteboard markers to circle smaller words within the lami-nated flashcard words. *For example - ‘ball’ - ‘all’. 14. Chalk Words... *Children go outside and practise writing their flashcard words with chalk on the concrete. 15. Handwriting Practise... *Children use whiteboard markers to practise tracing over a set of laminated flashcards. 16. Twister Chart... *Make a ‘twister’ style chart with chalk on a concrete floor, using letters instead of colours. *Children choose a flashcard word and place their feet and hands on the letters as they spell out the words. 17. Flashlight Words…. *Have your chosen word cards on display. *Turn off the lights and use a flashlight or torch to flash on each word card. *Children say the word as you flash on them. 18. Around the World Words... *Children play this in continuous pairs. *Flash the word card to the first pair, first child to say the word correctly, moves on to the next child to make a pair. *Another card is flashed - first child to answer correctly moves on to the next child and so on….. 19. Tic Tac Toe Here I Go... *Have your chosen word cards displayed. *Children or Teacher uses a pointer to sing as they point to the words in random fashion… ‘Tic Tac Toe Here I go, Where I Land I Do Not Know’ *Stop on a card - children say the word. *Is fun to go really fast with this and children love being the ‘teacher’. *This has always been a simple favourite wherever I have used it. 20. Swat the Word... *Have the chosen words displayed. *Children use a flyswat to ‘swat’ the words as they are called out. 21. Stepping Stones…. *Place chosen word cards on the floor in random fashion. *Children take turns stepping on the stones (word cards), saying the words as they step on each one. *Children be careful not to fall off into the river full of crocodiles 22. Musical Words... *Children sit in a circle. *1-5 flashcards are passed around as music plays. *Once music stops, children with cards, stop and look at them and say the word - continue with the music. *Can build it up to 20 or more cards being passed around—good fun. 23. Word Walk... *Children grab 1 or more cards from the flashcards, depending on the age of level of the children. *Children walk around the room or school (under supervision) looking for their words on signs, books, around the environment… *Children keep a tally of how many times they see each word. *To make it fun children could have their own ‘word wands’ made from dowel or ’fairy wands’ purchased from cheap shops. 24. Playdough Words... *Children make flashcard words up using playdough. *If you make the word cards larger size, they can place the play-dough over the top of the letters.. 25. String Glue Words…. *Children make up their own word cards by cutting and gluing string onto card to make up the words. *Younger children could use a printed black and white copy of the word cards to glue their string over the top of the letters as a template…. 26. Crisscross Words…. *Children write their words downwards, then fill in the missing letters….. 27. Letter Stencils and Letter Stamps... *Children make up words from the selected word cards using let-ters stencils or letter stamps. 28. Magnetic Letters... *Children make flashcard words using magnetic letters. *A great way to do this for individual use is to use cheap baking trays for each child to place their magnets on. 29. Beat the Clock…. *Using the word cards, how many times can each word be written in 1 minute. *Great to work in pairs with one child writing and one child doing the timing. 30. Beat the Clock Reading... *Hold up the flashcard words - how many words can be read out loud in 1 minute. *Again, this could be done as a class or in pairs with one child saying the word while the other times. ©K-3TeacherResources.com Printable Version of 101 Fun and Educational Flashcard Activities... Top 30 |
| More Printable Flash Cards using your own Word Lists... |
|
Stay Up-to-Date |