What if there were vocabulary activities and spelling word practice that was engaging, AND that you could use with any word list in your classroom? Bonus points if it is digital and interactive!
Engage students with this word work choice board bundle while they are practicing with spelling and vocabulary words using ANY list!
The word work menus are great to use in literacy centers, word work stations or as independent vocabulary and spelling practice for upper elementary students.
The best part? Your students will become familiar with each digital activity so they can get right to work on practicing, so applying them to all of your spelling and vocabulary lists is a breeze. No copies required!
The other best part? These literacy activities can be used with ANY word list!
✨Check out the preview for a closer look at what is included with this set of Google slide interactive word work activities.
What Resources are Included in this BUNDLE?
✨Interactive Vocabulary Choice Board
✨Interactive Spelling Choice Board
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Using these daily literacy activities is EASY as 1..2..
✅Share the digital slides (NO COPYING!) with your students.
✅Assign specific activities or allow students to use it as a choice board as they work through a weekly word list
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What’s Included with This Resource?
Vocabulary Menu Activities:
✅a restaurant menu style vocabulary choice board to increase student engagement and help with student organization as they are practicing their vocabulary words – menu includes:
- Drinks
- Appetizers
- Side Dishes
- Main Courses
- Desserts
✅12 engaging vocabulary activities for students to choose from, including Vocabulary:
- Four Square
- Clues
- Dictionary
- Texting
- Paragraph
- Snaps
- Comic Strip
- Memory
- Graffiti
- Your Way
- News Report
- Silly Story
✅Student instructions and choices in the margins of the slides
✅Practice with dragging and dropping, digital drawing, and inserting images
How Does the Vocabulary Menu Work?
- Instructions in the margins of the first slide (contents page) instruct students to choose meal choices for themselves and a friend, which includes:
- 2 drinks
- 2 appetizers
- 2 main courses
- 4 sides
- 2 desserts
- Instructions can be deleted if you want to change the amount of vocabulary activities that are required each week
- A space is provided for students to type their vocabulary words into the Google slide margin and use provided tally marks to keep track of how many times they practice with a particular word
- Circles are provided in the margins to drag and drop over the vocabulary menu activities that students complete from the choice board
- Clickable links on the contents page will take students directly to the interactive slide to complete the weekly practice
- Some of the menu activities repeat under different sections so students have the opportunity to choose them more than once per list of words
Vocabulary Menu Options:
✅Drinks
- Vocabulary Four Square
- Clues
- Dictionary
- Vocabulary Texting
✅Appetizers
- Vocab Paragraph
- Vocabulary Snaps
- Comic Strip
- Dictionary
✅Side Dishes
- Clues
- Four Square
- Vocabulary Memory
- Snaps
- Dictionary
- Vocabulary Your Way
- Graffiti
- Vocab Texting
✅Main Courses
- Silly Story
- Dictionary
- Texting
- Vocabulary News Report
- Vocab Your Way
- Paragraph
✅Desserts
- Four Square
- Silly Story
- Texting
- Comic Strip
- Vocab Snaps
This Vocabulary Choice Board Includes 12 Engaging Activities Perfect for Upper Elementary:
- Vocabulary Four Square – a vocabulary graphic organizer for which students identify the word, define it, use it in an original sentence, identify its part of speech, list synonyms and antonyms, and insert an image or draw a digital picture
- Dictionary – a mock dictionary page for which students define a word from their word list and use alphabetical order practice to identify a word that would come before and after their word in the dictionary
- Vocabulary Clues – an activity that instructs students to write 3 clues that would help a friend identify the word
- Vocab Texting – an engaging activity that uses common text messaging lingo to provide practice in defining a word, using it in a sentence, and identifying synonyms and antonyms
- Vocabulary Paragraph – a space for students to choose three words and type a paragraph using them – helps assess comprehension of word meaning
- Comic Strip – a comic strip template for which students create a comic including 4 words from their vocabulary list – drag and drop characters and text boxes are included
- Vocab Snaps – an engaging activity for which students search for and insert 3 images that describe, identify, or make them think of a particular vocabulary word
- Memory – a writing prompt that allows students to discuss a memory that they have from learning about one of their vocabulary words
- Vocab Your Way – a vocabulary graphic organizer that provides space for students to define 6 words in their own way
- Graffiti – an engaging digital drawing activity for which students insert shapes to draw a picture that depicts a vocabulary word
- Silly Story – students write a funny story using 5 words from the list
- News Report – students pretend to be a news reporter and use creative writing with 3 words from their list
- Any of these activity slides can be either DUPLICATED or DELETED to suit the needs of your students – just be aware that any slide you delete will cause the menu content slide to have a missing link (which is ok!) and the duplicated slide will not be linked
Spelling Word Menu Activities:
✅10 engaging spelling activities for students to choose from, including:
- Comic Strip
- Alphabetical Order
- Word Search
- Fancy Fonts
- Scrabble
- Color Words
- Syllable Sort
- Vowel Sort
- Sign Language
✅Student instructions and choices in the margins of the slides
✅Practice with dragging and dropping
How Does the Spelling Word Menu Work?
- Decide how many activities you want your students to complete – all 10? Half? You decide!
- A space is provided for students to type their spelling words into the Google slide margin so they are always available, even if a student loses a list (that would never happen!)
- Circles are provided in the margins to drag and drop over the word work menu activities that students complete from the choice board
- Clickable links on the contents page will take students directly to the interactive slide to complete the weekly practice
- Each activity encourages students to use all or as many words from their list as possible
This Spelling Choice Board Includes 10 Engaging Activities Perfect for Upper Elementary:
- Comic Strip – a comic strip template for which students create a comic including 4 words from their spelling list – drag and drop characters and text boxes are included – this activity can be duplicated to include practice with more words
- Alphabetical Order – students list spelling words in alphabetical order – a small abc reference is included on the top of the slide
- Word Search – an engaging activity that allows students to create their own word search using their spelling words – this provides practice with spelling as they add the letters to the word search template and type them into the word bank – examples are included
- Fancy Fonts – students get to type their words in fun fonts
- Scrabble Spelling – drag and drop Scrabble tiles are included in the margins of the slides for students to build each word – as an extra bonus this activity asks students to use the numbers on the tiles to create a math expression and find the word’s value
- Color Words – students get to type their words using different color fonts
- Syllable Sort – students sort words into one, two, three, four, and five syllables – they type directly into the graphic organizer
- Vowel Sort – students sort their words into long vowel and short vowel columns – they type directly into the graphic organizer
- Email – this engaging word work activity allows students to type into an email template a message to a friend or family member using as many words from their list as possible
- Sign Language Words – American Sign Language images are provided for students to drag and drop into the activity slide after they type the word
- Any of these activity slides can be either DUPLICATED or DELETED to suit the needs of your students – just be aware that any slide you delete will cause the menu content slide to have a missing link (which is ok!) and the duplicated slide will not be linked
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✨Want to change up the order of the activities? All you need to do is reorder them before you share them with your students.
✨Want more of a particular activity? DUPLICATE the slide – just be aware that the clickable contents page will not be connected to the slide you added.
✨Don’t want your students to have access to all of the activities at once? Save each individual activity slide into Google drive and make them shareable with students. Then assign them as you want students to complete them!
✨Don’t like one of the activities? No problem! You can delete any of the slides that you don’t want your students to use.
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How Can You Use These Literacy Activities in Your Classroom?
✅Use them as independent word work practice
✅Assign one activity per day as morning work or as part of a literacy warm up
✅Use as bell ringers or bell work
✅Word work centers? Word work stations? Literacy stations? Literacy centers? Literacy rotations? Small group rotations? Small group centers? Whatever you call them…these word work activities are great for independent or small group work!
✅Allow students to complete these activities for an extended time frame when you have a sub
✅Use them for early finishers
✅Several of the activities would also be great for small reading groups or writing group activities – can you have your students write a comic during small group? Yes!
