High Frequency Word Practice

High Frequency Word Practice
Author: Ruth Foster
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2004-08-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743937058

Teach basic sight words using a variety of engaging exercises that account for individual student strengths and weaknesses.

If You Were a Noun

If You Were a Noun
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Total Pages: 14
Release:
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1479553875

Life as a word can be wild and a lot of work. Discover how these lexicons live and how they help build sentences. Provides an introduction to nouns and proper nouns. Includes an activity.

First Word Search: Fun First Words

First Word Search: Fun First Words
Author:
Publisher: First Word Search
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781402778070

Now, the youngest, beginning readers can play a little "hide-and-seek" on the page with word searches designed just for them. Everything's simple and basic, so children will have lots of fun while they're learning. Even very young children can go on a word hunt! In Fun First Words, all the entries are grouped by subject, so youngsters can do their searches in such kid-appealing categories as "Bugs," "Birthdays," and "Camping." They'll have a happy time hunting. Working on these word searches encourages kids to develop an early love of reading that will only grow as the years go by.

A Playful Path

A Playful Path
Author: Bernard De Koven
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1304351823

A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Fun, Taste, & Games

Fun, Taste, & Games
Author: John Sharp
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0262039354

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play. “Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty was to art, they argue, fun is to play and games—the aesthetic goal that we measure our experiences and interpretations against. Sharp and Thomas use this fun-centered aesthetic framework to explore a range of games and game issues—from workplace bingo to Meow Wolf, from basketball to Myst, from the consumer marketplace to Marcel Duchamp. They begin by outlining three elements for understanding the drive, creation, and experience of fun: set-outsideness, ludic forms, and ambiguity. Moving from theory to practice and back again, they explore the complicated relationships among the titular fun, taste, and games. They consider, among other things, the dismissal of fun by game journalists and designers; the seminal but underinfluential game Myst, and how tastes change over time; the shattering of the gamer community in Gamergate; and an aesthetics of play that goes beyond games.

One Word for Kids

One Word for Kids
Author: Jon Gordon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1119430313

From the authors who created the One Word movement, impacting schools, businesses, and sports teams around the world, comes a charming fable that can be read and shared by everyone. If you could choose only one word to help you have your best year ever, what would it be? Love? Fun? Believe? Brave? It’s prob­ably different for everyone. How you find your word is just as important as the word itself. And once you know your word, what do you do with it? In One Word for Kids, bestselling author Jon Gordon—along with coauthors Dan Britton and Jimmy Page—asks these questions to children and adults of all ages, teaching an important life lesson in the process. This engaging, fully illustrated fable follows Stevie, a young boy falling asleep on the first day of school. His teacher gives the class an assignment: to find the one word that will help them have their best year ever. To discover their one word, they must look inside themselves, look up, and look out. At home, Stevie is upset be­cause he can’t find his word. After his dad offers some helpful advice, Stevie excitedly begins the quest for his word. His search helps him discover a lot about himself, what he loves, and what is important to him. An easy read with a powerful message, One Word for Kids appeals to readers of all ages and is an ideal entry point into discussing a valuable lesson in a fun and engaging way.

Sight Word Fun

Sight Word Fun
Author: Remedia Publications
Publisher: Remedia Publications
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781596395060

Grade Level: 1-2 Interest Level: 2-8 Reading Level: 1-2 This fun, hands-on book was created to help early readers identify sight words and build reading fluency. Children need to develop a growing core of sight words, which will help them become more fluent readers. Since sight words are meant to be identified instantly - pictures are a great way to aid the student in immediate recognition of several high-frequency words. Includes crossword puzzles, word searches, configuration fill-ins, and riddles. A great stepping stone for writing sentences and categorizing! 96 pages.

Word Puzzlers - Grades K-1 (eBook)

Word Puzzlers - Grades K-1 (eBook)
Author: Jean Wolff
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0787781703

These word puzzle books are an exciting way to enrich students' vocabularies. A valuable teaching tool that students can use with minimal supervision, word puzzles stimulate an active interest in words and language. These books offer a challenging way to sharpen reasoning skills, stimulate vocabulary, and reinforce spelling skills. The variety of puzzle formats and subject matter provide engaging activities that complement core and extended curriculum materials. Codes, mazes, riddles, rhymes, rebuses, word searches, crossword puzzles, and matching activities are just a few of the formats presented in a wide variety of subject areas.

Play Anything

Play Anything
Author: Ian Bogost
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465096506

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.

Funny Honey: A Gifted Dog

Funny Honey: A Gifted Dog
Author: Elizabeth A. Hann
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

About the Book This humorous, heartwarming memoir chronicles the story of Betty and Lou as they set out with positive resolve and absolute determination to find a puppy, raise it with great love in their hearts, train it to the best of their abilities, and have the dog of their dreams. The story begins with the events that brought them to purchase Honey as a puppy in the first place. The story describes the comical events, the unforeseen mishaps and the outlandish adventures throughout Honey’s lifetime as Fate, Destiny, and Lady Luck have an extraordinary influence on the outcome of Betty and Lou’s original plan. About the Author Elizabeth A. Hann lives in New England with her newest rescue dog. She loves to travel, especially to the National Parks, and has visited many popular areas along the East Coast from Maine to Florida as well as many locations throughout the South, Midwest and Western states. She spends her free time reading, swimming, and walking. Her favorite pastime is horseback riding along the trails and ocean shores of Narragansett Bay.