Sight Word Concentration and Other Stir Crazy Things

 

Okay so all the snow days this week  gave me a chance to do something I’ve been trying to do since school started.

I love the book Making Word Walls Work. Judy Lynch was a Reading Recovery teacher (have to support my peeps) and I use this book everyday for my word wall routines. One of the activities she has is Word Wall Concentration. You pick 6-8 word wall words (that would be 12-16 words total) and place them in a matrix in your pocket chart. Then you cover the words with number cards in order 1-12 or 1-16(depending on how many words you use).

*This should be done before students enter your room, you don’t want them to see where you put the words. Then students call two numbers and you uncover the words. If it’s match then the class can cheer, if not you keep calling on students to give two numbers they want uncovered. My kids love this game, they ask to play this all the time. Sometimes they'll choose it on Fridays Work on Words and play with a partner. It’s a good review, it's fun and it helps my strugglers. I hope the directions are clear, if not e-mail me.

Anyway, I said all that to say I usually just write the words and the number cards on index cards or squares of construction paper. But a while back I decided I wanted them to be more appealing to my students…so my plan was to make sets for all the Fry words and all the words in our reading (Reading Street) series. So last night I started creating. They have ocean animals because that’s my classroom décor this year. But I felt like they were generic enough to be used anytime. Hope you can use them. Let me know what you think.

 

                        Set 1

                         Set 2

 

                          Set 3

 

                     Set 4

Fry Phrases

As I blog, our state is right in the middle of a Winter Weather Advisory (Snow and Ice). We will have a snow day on tomorrow. Yes! So thought I’d share a few things.  

I read Ladybug Teacher Files blog about embedding a document right into your blog…so here it goes. I hope it works. I use Fry Phrases all the time. Each of my students get a set of the first four sets of phrases. They can read them during free time, or quiz each other. They can also time each other to see how many phrases they can read in a minute, we also use them during whole group games like Around the World. Hope this works and thanks for the tutorial!