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This week, my boys played our new Shamrock-themed Sight Word Game {called Word Bump!}. If you are new to Word Bump!, it’s a game I concocted for working on writing our sight words in a fun way {plus, there’s some math mixed in}. It sure beats writing each sight word five times! You can read a little more about Word Bump! here or here. There are also directions in the free printable pack {download link at the end of this post}.
My 2nd grader and 5 year old enjoy playing this game together. Before playing, I wrote out a word list for each child. My 2nd grader worked on his sight words and my 5 year old worked on his words. That’s one of the cool things about this game: both kids can play with separate word lists. While we used sight words, you can also play with phonics word lists that you’re working on for the week. For example, I could have used short vowel words with my 5 year old and two-syllable words we’ve been working on from Words their Way and All About Reading with my eldest.
Sight Word Game in Action!
We slide our page into a plastic sleeve protector {if you teach in any capacity, these are a true life saver!} and each child chooses a different colored dry erase marker. Each takes a turn rolling 2 dice {in the pack, you’ll find game boards for 1 die, 2 dice, or 3 dice}, adding up the total, and writing a word from their word list on the game board. My youngest son takes such pleasure in erasing {bumping} my oldest son’s words!
I also love the way this game integrates some handwriting, as I have been encouraging my youngest son to pay attention to uppercase versus lowercase usage. Originally, he wrote thAt. I asked him to go back and erase it to write a lowercase a instead.
More Spelling Resources:
- FREE Shamrock Sorting with Digraphs SH & CH
- The Teaching Of Sight Words {Part 1 and Part 2}
- Sight Words: When They Just Don’t “Stick”
- Roll and Write a Sight Word Game
- Crayon Resist Sight Words
- FREE Elementary Printables {sight words, phonics games, and MUCH more!}
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See all our Word Bump! Games HERE.
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~Becky
I love your theme games. Thanks for co-hosting Afterschool!