File Folder Games
CD-ROM
This CD-ROM features 20 teacher-created file folder games.  There are 79 pages of material to create
20 different reading, language, and math games for K-2 classrooms.  The activities are created in
bright colors and are ready to print.  The PDF (Acrobat Reader) formatted CD-ROM makes it easy to
find the file folder games that you want to print by organizing each game into it's own file folder.  
Each game includes a filing tab, a "How to Play" section, a decorative title label with picture, actual
game pieces and almost all include answer keys which can be attached to the back of the folder.  The
activities contained on the CD are described below.   

1. Sweet E's: Identifying long and short /e/ words. (Decide whether each gumball word as a short or
long /e/ sound and match it to the correct candy machine.)

2. Amazing Acorns: Identifying long and short /a/ words. (Match each word on the bottom acorn half to
the correct vowel sound on the top acorn half.)

3. ANT-onyms: Identifying antonyms (Match each ant to its correct antonym on the table cloth.)

4. Make the Goal: Classifying nouns and verbs. (Decide whether each word on the football is a noun
or verb and place it on the correct goal post.)

5. Ice Cream Dream: Identifying long and short /i/ words. (Match each scoop to its correct cone
according to whether it has a long or short vowel sound.)

6. Lucky Ducky: Identifying long and short /u/ words. (Decide whether each blue ribbon words has a
long or short /u/ word and match it to the correct duck.)

7. "Bee" Careful: Long vowel pairs /ai/, /ea/, /ee/, /ie/, /oa/, and /ui/. (Decide what vowel pair is missing
form each word/picture card and place it on the correct mat.)

8. The Point: Using correct ending punctuation (Draw a card. Read the sentence and decide whether
it should have a period, question mark or exclamation point at the end. Move your token to the next
speace that have the correct punctuation mark to finish your sentence. If you land on a space
occupied by another player, that player must go back to the last correct punctuation space.)

9. Froggy Facts: Distinguishing between fact and opinion. (Read the state on each frog card. If it is a
fact, put it on the fact lilly pad. If it is an opinion, put it on the opinion lilly pad.)

10. Cool Addition and Subtraction:  Addition and Subtraction 0-10. Read the addition and subtraction
problems on the popsicles. Match the popsicle stick with the correct answer to each popsicle. Watch
the signs.

11. Having A Ball With Math:  Addition/Subtraction 1-20. Match the beach balls with the addition and
subtraction problems to their correct answer nets.

12. Does Anyone Have the Time?:  Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
Activity 1: On the clocks with the blank faces, draw the hands on each clock so they match the time
shown below it. Remember the short hand is the hour and the long hand is the minute.

Activity 2: Read the time on the clocks. Write the time shown below the clock. Remember the short
hand is the hour and the long hand is the minute.

13. Show Me the Money: Counting Coins and Coin Recognition
Activity 1: Coin Counting
Add the money in each square. Match the price tag showing the correct amount to each square.

Activity 2: Money Match
Draw a line to match the head side of each coin to the tail side. Then draw a line from the tail side to
the amount the coin is worth.

14. I’ve Got More:  Place Value- ones, tens hundreds. Each player turns his/her colored cards upside
down in a pile. The first player chooses a number card and places it on one of the spaces on the
place value mat. Once the card is placed, it cannot be moved. The second player then does the
same. Each player continues drawing and placing a card on the mat in turn. Remember, once the card
is down on the mat, it cannot be moved. When each player has the each space filled, the player with
the highest value number wins the round.

15. Sing a Song of Synonyms:  Synonyms.  Find the singing bears with the correct synonym and match
it to the correct musical staff.

16. Pet or Pets?:  Plurals. Decide whether the object(s) in the box are singular or plural, then place
the correct label below each picture.

17. Batting a Thousand with Homonyms:  Homonyms. Look at the word on each bat. Find the baseball
with the matching homonym and place it with the bat.

18. Parts of Speech Games:  Common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Activity 1 (common nouns, proper nouns, verbs) NOUN OR VERB BOARD GAME:
Draw a card that says either common noun, proper noun, or verb and move your token to the next
space on the game board that has a word that fits that category.

Activity 2 (adjectives and adverbs): ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB BOARD GAME
Roll the die and pick a card. Decide whether the underlined word is an adjective or adverb. If you are
correct, move the correct number of spaces and follow any directions on the space where you
landed.

19. Read My Lips:  Rhyming. Match each lower lip to the upper lip that rhymes. (These are best
printed on red or pink paper)

20. Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Munchers:  Students "feed" the uppercase letter tiles to the
Uppercase Letter Muncher and the lowercase letter tiles to the Lowercase Letter Muncher. This is
an activity that is not created in a file folder.
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completed file folder game
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