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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Bingo with Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Words”

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Grades 1-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

This fun game of BINGO gives students practice differentiating between vowel digraphs and vowel diphthong syllables. A vowel digraph is a syllable that has two vowels glued together whose sound will say one of the vowel sounds. A vowel diphthong is two vowels glued together or one vowel glued to the left of the letter -w whose sound will be unique to the combination of the two letters. After playing a few times, the students will catch on to these two different syllable types and will begin to quickly identify them and their sounds. There are two different bingo cards for the students, and there are 96 word cards–48 vowel digraph words and 48 vowel diphthong words.

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Teach Your Students This Gerund “Trick”!

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Gerunds, infinitives, and participles, OH MY! Yeah. . .they are not the most titillating thing in the world to teach. In fact, when I had to teach the unit, I had to relearn all the terminology all over again (honestly, I don’t even recall any of my teachers specifically teaching the “gerund.” Hmmmm). Thus, why I think the most confusing aspect of the Verbals is the gerund: firstly, it’s hard to pronounce, and, secondly, what the HECK is its function?! (Even though I pronounced it correctly several times a day, half the students still insisted on calling it a “Grrrr-uh-nd.” Um. Nope, but as long as you know what it does, you could call it “Sally” for all I care! 🙂 )

Anywho, I came up with a “trick” that works almost every time when trying to detect a gerund in a sentence. I call it the “IT” rule. “IT” definitely helped my students become much more clear on if the -ing word was a gerund or just a participle. So here is my simple  “IT” trick:

Because a gerund functions as a noun, I taught my students to replace the -ing word with a noun in the sentence: “IT.” If the sentence still makes sense, it’s probably (stress the probably) a gerund. For example:

Example 1: She loves dancing.

Change to: She loves IT.

YEP! We have a gerund!

Example 2: She is dancing in the rain.

Change to: She is IT in the rain.

Hmmm, NOPE. Not a gerund.

You may not like this trick or it may work really well for you. Either way, I am just glad I can share!

Happy gerund-ing!

 

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Reading Response and Incentive Bookmarks – Free – Rock Star Owl Theme”

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by Queen of the Jungle

Pre-Kindergarten – 5th Grade

 

owl bookmarks

 

Whooo Loves Reading? These Rock Star Owl Bookmarks are sure to motivate your students to pick up a good book. Six bookmarks are included in this set. Animal prints are mixed throughout the set to go with a “Wild” environment that students will love. This theme has several coordinating products so check my TPT store if you are interested in them.

I have included 6 Reading Bookmarks to encourage students to read books. Three of the bookmarks have space on them where students can respond to, or jot notes on, what they read. Or use the space to collect incentive stickers or punches that students can cash in for once they have collected a certain number.

You can print them on heavy duty card stock and laminate them if you want. If you punch a hole in the top you could add a decorative ribbon or a yarn tassle.

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