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Whether you’re a parent looking for fun and educational games for your kids to play at home or a teacher seeking new classroom games that make learning activities more fun for your preschool, kindergarten or grade school students, Teacher’s Corner offers plenty of great kid’s games.
Most Kids’ Games web sites offer online games but Teacher’s Corner is dedicated to offering you hands on interactive games that teach kids key skills like early literacy, basic math, sharing and teamwork and self esteem.
Games like the Build a Sentence Game will help young students learn grammar while having fun with tiles that help them learn to sort words and write complete sentences.
Race to Read lets kids learn to read with a fun NASCAR racing theme. This game helps improve vocabulary, how to use verb tenses, rhyming words and other early reading skills and is a great addition to your class or home schooling learning activities.
The key elements of games typically involve learning to set goals, follow rules, make up strategy, overcome challenges, and interact with others. Interactive educational games provide mental and/or physical stimulation and can aid greatly in developing children’s practical skills, personal self esteem and social interaction.
Another benefit of using games in teaching kids early math, reading and writing is the use of tools. Tools are an important part of many games that often helps define game play. By teaching kids to use tools, they become more adept in the requisite skills needed to use tools in accomplishing specific tasks.
Kids learn most effectively in an environment that makes learning fun and exciting, so interactive, educational games should be a staple of any primary school learning center. Read on in the Teacher’s Corner Kids’ Games section to find ideas, guides and tips on how to make learning more fun!
Azucena Dirba
- Jun 29th, 10
6-29-10
As a speech therapist working in the classroom setting with children who experience difficulties in expressive language, receptive language, articulation, phonological processes, voice and fluency ans augmentative communication for non verbal speakers, I was happy to have found this article on games. I use games very often in my therapy room to work on iep goals/objective provided by the speech pathologist. I am constantly looking for new therapy activity ideas such as file folder games, art and crafts as well as worksheets to integrate in one to one as well as group therapy.
Would you consider adding some of these resources, both products to purchase as well as free articles, worksheets, as well as sample file folder activities to be used in this setting of speech therapy in the classroom?
Would you also consider providing links to other speech therapy websites?
I hope you find my suggestions helpful. They would tremendously impact all special education teachers as well as speech therapists alike. It would also provide teachers with a better understanding of how our work in the therapy room alignes with the work done in the regualr or special education classroom.
Thank You for your consideration to these suggestions.
Azucena Dirba, BASLP-MASG