spelling race

Have students sit in 2 lines. Hold up a word card, i.e. "chair" Student 1 from each team has to stand up and shout out the first letter of the word, in this case, "C!" When s/he sits back down the second student on each team stands up and yells "H!" and so on down the line. The first team finished wins. You can use this to reinforce vocab and its fun and active and really helps problem areas, like Hispanics learninf the difference between a,e, and i.