I’m a little late in doing this, but Carisa at 1+1+1=1 has started a list of things you can do with your child/students to play with words. What a great idea! My word “well” runs dry at times and it’s nice to have a source for more ideas when this happens.
So I wanted to join in the fun and share some of the things we do here at this reading mama’s house to work on sight words & word families. If you follow my blog, many of these pictures will be familiar. I have provided a link to the original post when available.
We Manipulate Words
spelling words with letter stickers
spelling words with magnetic letters
My husband made this kitchen set this past year for Christmas (props to my husband). We primed the refrigerator and cabinet fronts with magnetic primer; so magnets stick…just like the real fridge!
Wikki Stix spelling
We Spell/Write Words
sentence strip spelling & writing
spelling words on a MagnaDoodle, GloDoodle, or AquaDoodle
Exploding with Words (Crayola Explosion)
spelling words on glass
We Read Words
word family sorting from Words Their Way
word hunts (looking for specific words) while reading in context
putting sight words in ABC order
ALuv is only 5, so I don’t have him alphabetize beyond the first letter, yet.
We Play Games with Words
File Folder Games
Memory Match or Go Fish
Four Corners
Write your sight words (or word family words) on individual index cards. Each person picks 4 to write on their board. Shuffle all the cards and place them face down in a pile. Take turns picking off the top card, reading it, and crossing it off your board if you have it. The first person to cross off all their words first, wins!
Word Swat
I call out a word on the board. He uses his special “reading” glasses, which I found at the $1 store, and word swatter (with the inside cut out) to find the word and swat it. This one is always a real “hit”!
Spelling Flashlight Tag
Sorry the picture is blurry. I call out a word on our word wall and he has to shine his head lamp on it. When I taught in the classroom, I used flashlights and with a permanent marker, colored the lens covers two different colors. This way, you know which student found the word first.
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~Becky
Love the word swat idea. My Monkey would love that!