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   Summer Vacation 



How I Spent My Summer Vacation Spelling Activities

icon  Spelling Wordsearch Printout

icon Word Shapes Printout

icon Spelling Word Contract Printout

icon Spelling Word Jumbles Printout

icon Spelling Word Write Twice Printout

icon Online Spelling Game


How I Spent My Summer Vacation Vocabulary Activities

icon Vocabulary Crossword Printout

icon Vocabulary Match Printout

icon Vocabulary Words Printout

icon Online Vocabulary Game

icon Online Vocabulary Game


Interactive Resources

icon Online Vocabulary Game

icon Online Vocabulary Game

icon Online Spelling Game

icon OI or OY Online Game
Students must decide if a word uses OI or OY.
icon Cause and Effect
From Harcourt, students read a short passage and determine cause and effect.

SpellingCity.com Games for How I spent my summer vacation

icon WordSearch
Find the words.

icon MatchIt
Match a word with the best sentence.

icon HangMouse
Like hangman with the spelling words.

icon Alphabetize
Put the words in the correct ABC order.

icon Audio Word Match
Match based on sounds.

icon Which Word
Find the word that best completes the sentence

icon Missing Letter
Find missing letters in the words.

icon Sentence Unscramble
Place the words in the correct order to complete a sentence.

icon Spelling Test
Take a test over the spelling words. 

Other Resources

cause and effect


  icon Cause and Effect Worksheet
Students determine the cause and effect in sentences.

  icon Cause and Effect Worksheet Two
Students determine the cause and effect in sentences.

  icon Write a Cause
Students write a cause to go with an effect.

  icon Write an Effect
Students write an effect to go with a cause.

  icon Complete the Cause and Effect
Given a cause and an effect, students must form a complete sentence.

  icon Cause and Effect Flowchart
A blank flowchart to illustrate cause and effect.

icon  Cause and Effect Flowchart Two
A blank flowchart to illustrate cause and effect.

cowboys

  icon Cowboys Theme from TheVirtualVine
A cowboy theme to go along with "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."  Also has adapted workbook pages to go with the workbooks from Harcourt along with resources for other Harcourt Trophies stories.

OI and OY

icon OI or OY Online Game
Students must decide if a word uses OI or OY.

icon OI or OY Phonics Quiz
Students build a sandcastle by choosing the correct letters.

other resources

icon  How I Spent My Summer Vacation Resources from PrimaryGradesClassPage
This site has some really good resources.  You can find a vocabulary powerpoint that is made really well, a spelling test, a study guide for the story, grammar test, skill sheets, and phonics and language drills.  I use a lot of her resources in my own classroom.

icon The Virtual Vine
This site also has some great resources.  It is run by a fellow teacher and has materials for all of the stories for Harcourt 2nd Grade.  I also use a lot of her resources in my classroom.