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Editable Sight Word Dice Game

By thisreadingmama 9 Comments

Want a fun way to practice sight words? Try this editable sight word dice game, specifically designed with a Thanksgiving theme.

It’s from my Editable Sight Word Card Games pack, which has even more fun themes for playing with sight words!

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Gobble, Gobble – an Editable Sight Word Dice Game

You’ve probably seen the sight word games with the tongue depressors on Pinterest. This sight word card game is similar, but adds a die for an extra level of fun and challenge! Instead of grabbing and reading just one card, players draw the number rolled on the die.


Prepping the Game

Before you print the game, you’ll want to type in your own sight words. For a list of sight words, be sure to check out my printable sight word lists. {Psst! The best part about editable printables is that you can enter phonics words instead of sight words.}

editable sight word cards for sight word dice game

To do this, click on the blue-ish colored boxes and type the word you want. Highlight the word and click Control + E. This gives you have the power to edit the font and size. I used the font KG Second Chances Solid if you want to use the same font. You just need to grab it from Teachers Pay Teachers first.

Print off your word cards twice {so you have 48 cards} and the 6 Gobble, Gobble! turkey cards. If you chose not to use all 48 word cards, you may not need as many turkey cards.

 

Playing the Sight Word Dice Game

For 2-4 players. The more players that play, the more sight word cards you’ll want to include.

1. Place all the cards face down in the center of the playing area.

drawing and reading sight word cards after rolling die

2. The first player rolls the die. She draws and reads one card at a time until she reaches the number rolled on the die. So if she rolls a 3, she draws and reads a total of 3 cards. It is important to only draw one card at a time until the number rolled is reached because of step #4.

 

keeping sight word cards that were read from sight word dice game

3. If the player only draws and reads sight word cards, she keeps all of them and they count for her.

 

gobble gobble card

4. But if a player draws a Gobble, Gobble! card at any point on her turn, she must put back some* of her sight word cards into a separate discard pile, along with the Gobble, Gobble! card she just drew.

 

putting 6 cards in the discard pile after drawing a gobble gobble card

*How many cards does the player discard? The number that was rolled on the die. So if the player rolls a 6 and draws a Gobble, Gobble! card at any point during that turn, she stops drawing more cards and puts six of her sight word cards into a discard pile. {Players can share the same discard pile.}

5. The player with the most sight word cards at the end of the game is the winner.

 

Of course, you can play the game the traditional way without the die, but I like how the die adds some extra fun and “chance” to the game.

 

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~Becky

 

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Comments

  1. Cassie Miller says

    November 6, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    These look like so much fun! My daughter will love them. She has been a little bit reluctant to practice reading. I feel strongly that children should not be forced to learn, but I will be sneaky and add some reading practice to a fun game, and she will do that! I love your games and printables and am always excited to get the next e-mail! Thanks for sharing your great content!

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    • thisreadingmama says

      November 6, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      You’re welcome! I hope your daughter will enjoy them game just as much as my daughter did. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Ivania Fullerton says

    November 6, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    I want to say thank you so much for all the beautiful resources. I use them with my ELL students. I work for a very low income school. Some of my students never attended school in their country. We have a high population of abused and homeless students. Whenever I introduce these games, they eat them up and brings a little of light to them. SO THANK YOU!!!

    I have encouraged many mamas to your sight. Hope they listen.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      November 10, 2016 at 10:13 am

      What a blessing! Thank you for all you do to teach these students. I’m so thankful to be a small part of that. 🙂

      Reply
  3. K Dickey says

    December 8, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    Is there no way to make the font larger?

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    • thisreadingmama says

      December 12, 2016 at 5:40 am

      If you highlight the words, then hit Control + E, you can edit the size and font.

      Reply
  4. D. Brooks says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    I purchased the editable sight word game pack during your teacher appreciation sale earlier this week! I thought these would be great for helping my students practice the Fry words. Is there any way to duplicate pages so that I can get all 100 of the first Fry words on cards of the same color without having to print and edit multiple times.

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  5. Shirley Archer says

    December 3, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing all the really great ideas and resources with us. Many of my friends and I teach in small isolated communities where funding and access to materials is minimal. Because of your hard work and sharing there are many children enjoying these resources every day.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      December 3, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      You’re welcome! I feel blessed to be able to help in some way. 🙂

      Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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