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This file folder game is a fun way to reinforce picturesorting for your students.

This Really Good Stuff® product includes:• Move On In! Game Board• 12 Word Family Category Cards• 55 Word Family Picture Cards

Use this cute, colorful sorting game to help studentscompare and practice spelling categories, such as shortvowel word families, in an independent setting. The twohomes represent two categories, or “families.” Studentssort pictures into the homes, filling in windows and doorsto complete each group.

Use Your Own Sort CardsProvided in this set are cards for a sorting game usingpicture cards and category cards representing shortvowel word families. This serves as a handy sampleversion of Move On In! To take advantage of the manypossible uses for this game, you are encouraged to useother sort cards from Essential Picture Sorts (ReallyGood Stuff® #302243) or cards that you make. This wayyou’ll be able to use the game board repeatedly and atmany levels of instruction as you increase the soundpattern sorting challenges.

Instructions for a simple word family picture sort areprovided under Move On In! Literacy Center Game (atright). Other versions of Move On In! could include acomparison of two beginning or ending sounds, two shortvowel sounds, a short vowel versus a long vowel sound,and so on.

Customize the ActivityUse your own sets of sort cards to study differentspelling features. Challenge students to think of andmake other pictures that fit in the categories. Move OnIn! can be a class or center activity.

You can tape together two or more Move On In! filefolder games if you want to include two additionalcategories. Or you could give groups their own gameboards and different categories to sort, and when allthe homes have been filled in, place them next to eachother to make a “neighborhood.”

Move On In! Literacy Center Game

1. Select two CVC word families to compare in a MoveOn In! demonstration.

2. Show the Move On In! game board and discuss theneighborhood theme. (Each sound/spelling group will“move into” its own home; this theme is especiallyappropriate when comparing word families.)

3. Say that you will demonstrate sorting pictures intothe two homes.

4. Hold up one picture, such as cap, and have studentshelp you name the picture. Place the picture in one ofthe spaces in the home on the right.

5. Hold up a picture from the other word family, such asfan. Ask the students to help you identify thepicture. Place this picture in the home on the left. Oneby one, name the pictures with the group’s help andplace them in the remaining spaces in the homes.

6. Have the students help you label the two wordfamily homes by placing category cards in the doorspaces. Alternatively, students can help you thinkof a real or made-up proper name with each rime(for example, “The Tan Family”) to use as ahandwritten label for the door.

7. Provide each student or pair with picture cards fortwo word families (or other spelling categories).Have partners time each other or take turns assorter and checker.

Variations:• Increase the challenge by mixing in pictures from

other word families. Students have to find thepictures that belong in their word families.

• Make a group or class book of the Word FamilyNeighborhood.

Really Good Stuff® Activity GuideMove On In! File Folder Game

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Really Good Stuff® Activity GuideMove On In! File Folder Game

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hug jug mug plug rug cut hut shut