'101 Ways to Use Word Cards' - Sight Word Games, General Word Card Activities...
This is one of my favourite teacher resources. The full version is available with Membership. It provides some really simple but effective and fun sight word games ideas as well as activities for general spelling and word study.
I would use this document almost every day to plan for the following types of activities......
 daily group activities and/or tasks - at least one session per day involved some type of dolch sight word list or theme word card game or activity.
home sight word games and activities - Many Teacher Members are sending the full version - '101 Ways to Use Word Cards' (available with membership) home as a reference document for Parents - communicating ideas and ways to help their children learn sight words at home.
PLUS they are fantastic for those fill in, impromptu lessons
TOP 30 WORD GAMES AND ACTIVITIES....
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1. Play ‘Battleships’ with words on a grid with a partner or as a class
2. Play coin toss - words on floor - children take turns to toss a coin onto a word and say that word
3. Have a box of small blank mini cards or paper - you can purchase great sized post it notes these days (approx 10cm x 2 cm) on hand at all times so that children can write down words from word walls, charts etc and then take the card back to their writing. It is also handy to write words on when doing writing conferences
4. Play who am I? Eg. I am yellow, I have 5 letters, and I end in 't'
5. Make a letter twister chart with chalk on a concrete floor, children place their feet and hands on the letters to spell words - children love these types of sight word games
6. Children make their own word wall/dictionary using photocopied small words and scrapbooks labeled with a letter of alphabet on each page... can be added to throughout the year
7. Play Hangman using the words
8. How quickly can you find a certain word in individual reading books during small group reading
9. Play dominoes using same end letter/ beginning letter
10. Circle letters within words using whiteboard marker on laminated word card
11. Play Chinese Whispers - say a word - pass it around 12. Circle smaller words within words using whiteboard marker on laminated word card
13. Children go outside and practice writing their words with chalk on the concrete
14. Practice handwriting by tracing over words using whiteboard marker on laminated word card
15. Place words in alphabetical order
16. Flashlight words – turn off lights – flash a torch on words on display for look and say
17. Around the World Words – flash a word – first player to say word out of that pair moves on to the next person to make a pair and another word is flashed, etc, etc.
18. Play ‘tic tac toe, here I go, where I stop I do not know’ - children say the word that you stop on...
19. Play stepping stones - place words on the floor and children walk over them saying the word as they go to get to the other side of the stream
20. Play musical words - children pass words around in a circle until music stops - that child says the word - can be played with 1 or more words.
21. Go on a word walk - find words around the environment - signs etc.
22. Make words using playdough
23. Make words using string gluing
24. Make words using letter tiles - scrabble pieces
25. Make words using stencils
26. Make words using alphabet stamps
27. Make words using magnetic letters
28. Cloze on blackboard - children find the missing word within a sentence
29. Beat the clock - how many times can a word be written in 1 minute etc
30. Children write their words in list form and then write over the words 2 or more times using different colours to create rainbow words
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