Learning about the human anotomy is fun and easy for kids with My First Anatomy game. Identify, match, and learn! We are fearfully and wonderfully made!

Past, present, and future.

In an earlier post, I went over a list of memory review games that I am planning on using this year with my Foundations class. (CLICK HERE if you would like to read that post.) In this post, I am s…

Games make learning fun, so print out and play Superhero Memory to learn contractions. Who knew grammar could be so exciting?

Visual processing is an important cognitive skill for children to develop, and there are many fun games that help to strengthen this skill. What is Visual Processing and Why is it Important? Visual processing is a visual cognitive skill that allows us to process and interpret meaning from the visual information that we see through our eyes, and it plays an important role in reading, math, and spelling. What Are the Cognitive Skills that Make up Visual Processing Visual processing involves a number of cognitive components: Visual Processing Speed: the ability to process visual information at a rapid pace. Visual Scanning: the ability to look at and absorb all parts of visual information and text. Visual-Spatial Skills: the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. Visual-Spatial Reasoning: the ability to perceive the spatial relationships between objects. Visual Construction Skills: the ability to organize and manually manipulate spatial information to make a design. Visual Memory: the ability to remember what is seen. Visual Motor Integration: the ability to translate visual perception into motor planning, sequencing, control, coordination, and speed. Visual Synthesis: the ability to unite visual information into a coherent whole. Visual Sequencing: the ability to determine or remember the order of symbols, words, or objects. Visual Closure: the ability to make sense of visual information when some of the image is missing. Visual Reasoning: the ability to find meaning and make sense out of visual information. What Are Some Games that Can Help to Develop These Skills? Set: Set is a card game of recognition and deduction. Each card contains one of three symbols (squiggles, diamonds, ovals) in varying numbers (up to three), colors (purple, green, red), and degrees of shading. A player arranges 12 cards, face up, and all the players quickly discriminate "sets" of three cards linked by combinations of sameness or difference. This game works on visual discrimination, processing speed, reasoning, sequencing, and visual scanning. Spot it: Spot it is played with 55 cards, each decorated with eight symbols varying in size and orientation. The object of the game is to be the first to spot the one symbol in common between two or more cards. This game works on visual processing speed, scanning, motor integration, discrimination, and memory. Logic Links: Each puzzle is comprised of a series of clues that instruct the player where to place colored chips to solve a puzzle. This game works on visual reasoning, sequencing, and visual scanning. Blokus: The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. The player who gets rid of all of their tiles first is the winner. This game works on visual-motor integration, reasoning, sequencing, construction skills, spatial skills, and synthesis. Pixy Cubes: Pixy Cubes uses challenge cards for players to match or they can design colorful pictures with 16 colorful cubes. This game works on visual-motor integration, memory, processing speed, spatial reasoning, sequencing, construction skills, spatial skills, and synthesis. Q-Bits: Q-Bitz will challenge your visual agility. Players puzzle over how to quickly recreate the patterns on the game cards using their set of 16 cubes. This game works on visual-motor integration, processing speed, spatial reasoning, sequencing, construction skills, spatial skills, and synthesis. Q-Bits Extreme: This is the same game as Q-Bits, but the cubes are not all the same and the puzzles are more challenging. This game works on visual-motor integration, processing speed, spatial reasoning, sequencing, construction skills, spatial skills, and synthesis. Blink: Blink is a quick game where two players race to be the first to use all their cards. Players quickly match cards by the shape, count, or color on the cards. The first player out of cards wins. This works on visual processing speed, discrimination, and scanning. More Help with Visual Processing: Following Directions Primary: Following Directions Primary, offers a 49-page download that includes coloring activities and process of elimination activities. Cute animals and aliens as well as numbers, letters, shapes, and arrows are used to develop visual processing, listening skills, linguistic abilities and the core cognitive skills needed for reading. If you are interested in learning more about this publication and would like to download free activities click here. Reversing Reversals Primary: Reversing Reversals Primary strengthens the foundational cognitive skills needed for reading and math. It also develops visual processing and perception such as reversals that impacts students with dyslexia. This publication is available as a download, and it offers 72 pages of activities as well as a game. If you would like to learn more about this publication and also get free activities click here. I hope you found this helpful. If you know of other card or board games that you find benefit visual processing, please share them below. Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses. · Blog: https://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/ · YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/warrenerica1 · Podcast: https://godyslexia.com/ · Store: http://www.Goodsensorylearning.com/ · Courses: http://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/ · Newsletter Sign-up: https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/69400

Five Fun Activities for Teaching Prepositions. Teaching prepositions through playing games & enjoyable activities for children to learn while having fun.

Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!

Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary

FREE printable puzzles to teach preschoolers about antonyms and opposites. Includes 12 self-correcting puzzles with visual cues to find the matching pair of antonyms.

Free instructions and printable cards for the Taboo ESL game. This is a fun speaking activity for English learners that will get your students involved.

These are two super ESL games and activities for verb tense review lessons. If you are going to do verb tense review lessons, this printable and editable resource is perfect for you. Instead of reviewing dried grammar rules, students can learn, play, interact and have fun with each other. It is suitable for young learners, adults and homeschoolers. These games and activities cover 9 tenses (present/past/future simple; present/past/future continuous and present/past/future perfect). They are designed to help students review o verb forms, helping verbs in those tenses and their uses. Your students can also practice various skills from writing to speaking with this resource. Instructions for each activity is included. Two games are: 1. Basketball sorting game - Shoot the basket (colour and black and white versions) 2. Helping verb dice (colour and black and white dice templates) with 114 common English verbs. This resource is printable and editable. You can edit the content on Google Slides. All templates are provided. Suggested uses for the activities: 1. Sorting activities: You can use the basketball templates for your sorting activities when teaching parts of speech and other grammar rules. 2. Four-in-a-row: Instead of cutting up the verbs into small pieces, you can keep the whole table and play four-in-a-row (or tic-tac-toe) games with your students. Please check the preview for more details of the resource, I hope you enjoy the resource. Please read the Terms of Use carefully. Click the Green ★ to follow my store and get notifications of new product launches and freebies! ------------------------------------- Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • You can earn credits by leaving feedback on purchased items. Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to log inV-ing). Beside each purchase, you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a review for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I highly appreciate your feedback as they are useful suggestions for my development as well as my products. And I look forward to hearing your feedback after using this material. ------------------------------------- Also available: ESL Activities: Present Continuous Booklet - Worksheets and Charts ESL Activities: Present Continuous - Presentation and Quiz ESL Activities: Articles - Worksheets, Quiz and Posters ------------------------------------- Follow me on Blog Instagram Pinterest

How to incorporate body awareness activities in your child's daily routine for better proprioception.

The following activity will help your students revise and practise the comparative form of adjectives in speaking. The should work in pairs or groups, throw a die and answer the questions. Hope they like it! - ESL worksheets

Last week we started our study of verbs. I have used a few free verbs study packs I've found on TPT to introduce the concept. I love thi...

Self-Esteem Games for Kids: Explore 30 fun games to assist your kid or student build their confidence while having a great time.

Crossing the midline activities for kids. What on earth are those? Sometimes in the educational world we start speaking a slightly different language than 'normal' people. Not that teachers aren't normal ... though ... you do need to be a little insane to work with small children all day long, don't you? Anyways. I had

Fun and engaging ESL activities, games and worksheets in printable PDF format with full teacher's notes and answers for English teachers to use in class.

Check out the hot potato game, including variations, advice about timers, instructions for play and a whole lot more. Have some fun today!

Anger games are great resource to develop coping skills at home, school or in a counseling environment. A review of anger management games available in the market.

Get more out of learning English with these free and printable Fun English Worksheets that you can print out directly from your browser. Each English worksheet is available with different theme to make sure the learning time is effective. This resource of printable worksheets is great for practicing your knowledge in English.

This post explains how teachers can use an academic version of the highly engaging Spoons game to review concepts. Free games included!

Develop and strengthen your children's skills with these awesome Simon Says ideas and commands. This game is always a favourite with kids.

Twelve topics with prompting words to speak on. Thank you!!! - ESL worksheets

Past, present, and future.

I love using games in the classroom and this is one that is easy to prepare, easy to learn and great for making kids think about spelling an...

Telling time past the hour can be challenging for primary kids but it doesn’t have to be a struggle for you or your students. Learn simple ways and effective strategies to make telling time easier for primary kids.

This fun game is perfect for practicing the parts of the body with your ESL students. Have them roll a die and color the body parts in the correct colors.

We celebrated the end of our homeschool year with an Around the World Feast. We tasted foods from each of the seven continents and played geography games.

These five fun word games will have your students practicing vocabulary terms without even realizing it! Check out this list for instructions for play.

Looking for a fun way to teach 2D shapes? This marshmallow geometry activity will do the trick - and fill your tummy!

Kinesthetic Learning Ideas - over 20 ideas!

We have a whole collection of matchstick puzzles that are easy for you to print and enjoy. Use them as classroom worksheets or just to have some fun at home.

This opposites game for preschool is a great learning tool for kids in preschool through first grade. We love the real images!

This is a fun game to play with a pair of dice. Read a story and help recall the various features of the story with this creative activity.

A conversation based worksheet on the topic of feelings and emotions. The aim of this worksheet is to put the focus on the students. Have the students discuss the topic in pairs or small groups. I hope you find it useful. - ESL worksheets

What is inertia? Investigate Newton's First Law Of Motion in this amusing egg drop experiment.

Why are there so many insecurities as a language learner? How to change it? Here are 25 qualities of good language learners and what to do.

Print these free games to help your child master shape identification!

This is a dice game with the questions which are normally asked in the first part of The PET exam, Speaking. It's just a funny way to practise these introductory questions where they have to say more than just the basics. - ESL worksheets

The following board game will help your students (beginner level) practise questions and short answers with Can ot Can't. They may work in pairs or groups. Hope they like it! - ESL worksheets

The objective of this worksheet is to train the forms of irregular verbs. It is a fun activity. It's a board game. There isn't a solution. It's a good way to relax and at the same time to train the irragular verbs. - ESL worksheets

One of the most important elements of teaching is providing students with plenty of opportunities to actively engage in learning with their peers. This blog post covers my favorite cooperative learning strategies that I have used in my classroom. These activities can be used across all subjects and several grade levels (3-6+). Bonus: I created […]

What a chemistry activity for kids? Learn the Periodic Table of Elements with kids in a fun way by playing the Periodic Table Battleship game!

The last two years, I struggled finding ideas, activities, and printables for ALL the Common Core language standards for 1st grade. There are a lot! Piece by piece, I created activities, games, and practice pages for the first batch of language standards. This pack is already 128 pages jam-packed with ideas and it is only […]

These five senses activities help kids learn about our senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. They are suitable for kids in kindergarten, first