Bluster is an app by McGraw-Hill which allows students to practices with words that have similarities such as prefixes, suffixes, homophones, root words, rhyming words, synonyms, etc. This can be played as a single user, team or versus (2 players) and is leveled for second, third and fourth grades. To add some fun into the activity "weather elements" such as tornadoes, thunderstorms and snow storms can interrupt a player and temporarily frees them from responding.
Mrs. Prickett's third grade class is using this as a part of station activities. After teaching the students about the app, students have enjoyed reviewing many of these language arts skills as a part of their stations. In addition, this provides practice for both formative and summative assessments for our third graders. Mrs. Prickett shared that the kids have thoroughly enjoyed this activity!
-Dana Prickett, 3rd grade, WPES -
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