K-3 Teacher Resources
101 Fun and Educational Flashcard Activities

This is one of my favourite teacher resources.  The full version is available with Membership.  It provides some really simple but effective and fun flashcard games ideas as well as activities for general spelling and word study.

I would use this document almost every day to plan for the following types of activities......

TOP 30 FLASHCARD ACTIVITIES....
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*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 !

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*Have your selected flashcards on display.

*Play ‘hangman’ using these flashcards as reference.

*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.

*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.

*Set your IWB so that your chosen flashcards pdf file displays.

*Children circle the letters, sounds, and patterns within the words.

*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.

*Use whiteboard markers to circle phonics blends and sounds within your laminated flashcards.

*Use whiteboard markers to circle smaller words within the lami-nated flashcard words.

*For example - ‘ball’ - ‘all’.

*Children go outside and practise writing their flashcard words with chalk on the concrete.

*Children use whiteboard markers to practise tracing over a set of laminated flashcards.

*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.

*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.

*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…..

*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.

*Have the chosen words displayed.

*Children use a flyswat to ‘swat’ the words as they are called out.

*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

*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.

*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.

*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..

*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….

*Children write their words downwards, then fill in the missing letters…..

*Children make up words from the selected word cards using let-ters stencils or letter stamps.

*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.

*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.

*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.

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