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Brief Description
Students practice spelling with this fun game in which students move closer to the soccer goal with each correctly spelled word.
Objectives
Students will
- use a special soccer game board (provided) as they play this game of spelling skill.
- play a game with a partner.
- move toward the goal as they spell words correctly.
Keywords
spelling, soccer, goal
Materials Needed
- soccer game board (provided)
- spelling word cards
- game board marker
Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students move closer to the soccer goal with each correctly spelled word. The lesson comes with a special soccer field game sheet. This game could be adapted for use in a foreign language classroom.
See the complete Soccer Spelling lesson on the Scholastic Web site. Scroll down the page to find the lesson. The lesson is available in pdf format; the Adobe Acrobat plug-in is required to read the lesson.
Assessment Students will pass their weekly spelling test with a score of 80 percent or higher.
Lesson Plan Source
Scholastic, Inc.
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
LANGUAGE ARTS: Foreign Language
See more spelling lesson ideas in the Education World articles, Spell It Out! and Vocabulary and Spelling: Do Your Students Say 'Boring'?
Return to this week’s Lesson Planning article, Spice Up Your Spelling Lessons.
Originally published 10/04/2002
Links last updated 11/04/2005
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