Word Wheel

What You Will Need

Construction paper

Laminating paper

Multi-purpose paper

Fastener

Pencil or Pen

Scissors

Round Lid

First, I laminated two pieces of construction paper for the front and back of my word wheel. Then I used a round lid to trace a circle on both pieces of paper.(I used a lid from a tupperware bowl but a cereal bowl would work as well.)

 I then cut a small hole in the circle that would be the front of my word wheel.

I also cut out white circles of the same size to write the sight words on. I used pencil, so I could erase the words as my son learned them and add new words. But you can use permanent marker and laminate all the circles. 

     

Finally, I used a fastener to connect all the circles. Now my son can spin the wheel and learn new words. He's obsessed with basketball, so on his I drew lines to make it look like a basketball vs. a wheel.

Happy Learning!

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

To make your own sight word game you will need the following:

Poster board

Markers

Index cards

Computer paper

Printer (with colored ink) 

Bottle cap

Dice 

Stickers or Stamps

Pawns (coins, erasers, toy cars)

First fold the poster board in half, and then open and cut along the line. On the top corner of the poster board place an "A" and write "Start" beneath it. On the bottom corner opposite the "A" place a "Z" and write "End" beneath it.

From the starting point, draw circles using a large bottle cap for tracing. Make your pattern from start to finish. I varied the colors, but maintained a pattern, i.e. orange, aqua, green, yellow, red, purple, and blue. Also on the board, I traced an index card on either side. One for the "sight words", and the other for the "word families". On the sight words I drew a big eye and face. On the word families, I drew a stick family.

I coordinated the circles to match, so that if a student lands on an aqua face, he/she has to draw a card from the "sight word" pile. If a student lands on a red stick figure, he/she has to draw from the "word families" pile. 

Also in the circles, I placed several other obstacles such as "go back 2 spaces" and "go back to start". Another circle is a reward which says "go ahead one space."

On the "sight word" index cards, I wrote words my student was having trouble remembering. Words like: "what", "he", "she", "where", and, "this".

On the "word families" index cards, I wrote the ending of words: "ack", "an", "ig", "ub", "ug", etc.

I also printed out letters from the alphabet A-Z. The letters are to be given to each player at the beginning of the game. When a player lands on a "word families" space, he/she will draw an index card and then will be required to add a letter from his/her alphabet to make his/her word.

Basically to play the game, each player will roll a dice, the higher number goes first. The player will then roll the dice and move the appropriate number of spots. If they land on "sight words" or "word families" they will have to draw the corresponding index card. If they get the word right, or can make a word, they can stay on that spot; if not, they have to go back to the circle they came from. The person who makes it to "Z" first wins!

This is what the completed game board will look like. So I wouldn't get the index cards mixed up, I put stickers on the top of each of the "word families" index cards and stamps on the top of each of the "sight words" index cards.

Of course, you can vary your board and decorate it anyway you like. I bought a Winnie the Pooh and Cinderella figurine at Dollar General to use as pawns, but you can use coins, erasers, play cars, etc.

Like I always tell my students, "Get Creative!" 

Oh, and happy learning. :)