Are you looking for ways to practice your words or your facts?

Would you like to change up your nightly reading routine? 

You've come to the right place!

 

Word Study Practice

• do a word sort

• sort your words in a new way (no peeking sort)

• play word slap jack (each player puts down a card, if they have the same sound or follow the same rule "slap" the cards and take the pile)

• write your words in a story or sentences

• figure out the scrabble value of your words

• figure out what your word's telephone number would be using the letters on the phone keypad

• have a spelling bee at home

• take a practice test at home

• write your word with a dry erase marker and then trace over it while you erase it

• turn your words into art by writing the letters and decorating them

• visit www.spellingcity.com​

• trace your words on a partner's back, see if they can figure them out, and then trade places!

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Math Fact Practice

• play math war (choose two cards and either add, subtract, or multiply whoever has the greatest sum, difference, or product wins)

• play circles and stars (roll two dice, the first tells you how many circles to draw and the second tells you how many stars to put in each circle)

• play multiplication black out on graph paper (roll two dice and draw the corresponding array, label your array with your initials, whoever has the most colored once the board is full wins)

• make a memory game using equations and answers to make card pairs

• practice skip counting

• log on to GoMath ad play the megamath games

•look for other math games online

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Reading Practice

• read with a buddy and take turns

• read to a pet

• find a reader's theater play online and recite lines with a friend or family member

• read the comics in the newspaper

• check out a magazine

• build a fort and read inside it with a flash light

• watch the movie first then read the book to compare

• read the book then watch the movie to compare

• check out a nonfiction book on a topic you enjoy or know a lot about (I read an amazing book about chocolate... made me love it even more! Did you know chocolate was once so valuable it was used as money?)

• start or join a book club

• go to a book signing and then read the book

• read joke books and share the lamest jokes you can find with your teacher = )