GETCA 2025

Are you looking for engaging and effective ways to help your upper elementary students gain confidence and competence with key reading, writing and comprehension concepts? Throughout the session participants will have opportunities to play literacy and vocabulary games, learn how to differentiate the activities, how to develop extensions, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, gameboards, ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. Interspersed will be practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools. Come prepared to play literacy games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, alphabet dice, letter tiles and other easily found literacy manipulatives. Concepts covered include: • Review of Phonics, Word Families and Sight Words • Reading and Writing Strategies • Effective use of Adjectives and Adverbs • Parts of Speech • Questioning strategies An extensive handout with games and gameboards will be available for download.