Thanksgiving 2nd Grade ELA Game for Movement – Vowel Teams Game

Get your students up and moving with this Thanksgiving vowel teams game! Perfect for 2nd grade, this interactive ELA movement game lets students practice vowel teams as they move around the room, play, and have fun with their peers.

🦃 How to Play

1. Students spread out in the classroom or open space.
2. Each slide displays a word with a missing vowel team.
3. Students identify the correct vowel team and complete the matching Thanksgiving-themed movement!

From gobbling or wobbling like a turkey, every answer comes with a Thanksgiving-themed action that keeps kids giggling and learning. Partner slides and movement breaks ensure your class stays focused and energized from start to finish!

✨ What’s Included:

• Thanksgiving Vowel Teams Movement Game (74 slides)
• Teacher directions + quick setup instructions

💻 Each game comes in two formats:

• Google Slides
• PDF

🌟 Flexible for Whole Group or Independent Practice

These games are completely self-correcting — the correct answer is revealed immediately on the next slide, so students know right away if they got it right.

That means:

✔ Perfect for independent practice

✔ Easy to use during center rotations

✔ Great for partner play

✔ Ideal for brain breaks with purpose

✔ Can be played without teacher support

Because students receive instant feedback, they can confidently play on their own — even at home! Parents don’t need to fully understand the skill, since the correct answer is revealed immediately after each question. Just open, play, and learn.

💡 Perfect For:

• Literacy review
• Literacy warm-ups
• Brain breaks
• Small-groups
• Independent literacy centers
• At-home practice
• Dismissal activity

💕 Why Teachers Love It

• Encourages active learning and engagement
• Reinforces vowel team recognition and phonics skills
• No prep required—simply open and project
• Works with any screen, projector, or whiteboard
• Promotes independence: A correct answer follows each game slide so there is no need for you to monitor student movements.

📚 Skills Covered

• Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams (RF.2.3.b)
• Listening and following oral directions

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Erin Waters

www.erinwatersedu.com