Then, students can work in their notebooks all year, and I am not running off tons of copies every week. Instead, we just use plain paper, or those really cheap 10 cent notebooks that you can buy at Walmart at the beginning of the school year. I don’t print out and waste tons and tons of printable pages for recording sheets every week. (Side Note: We do not use anything fancy in my classroom to record our words on. Today, we’re going to talk about all kinds of FUN ways to practice spelling sight words! In fact, I’m about to share TWENTY fun word work ideas that my students LOVE in my classroom! You may have heard of several of these ideas already, but I do hope that you find new ones, too! If anything, I hope you will enjoy having a BIG list of word work ideas all together, with photographs, in one convenient place! Are you ready? Let’s do this! Today’s post comes after that initial introduction. You can read all about sight word introduction and instruction in this post: Three Ways to Help Students Who Struggle with Sight Words. We talked about the critical importance of context during sight word instruction. This a question I have frequently been asked by teachers and friends, and it is the entire reason I sat down to write this blog post! Last month, I shared how I introduce new sight words to my students. Here’s an example: The bins I use for work work can be found here.) What do your students do during word work? This just means Amazon tosses a few cents my way if you make a purchase with the links – at absolutely, positively, no extra cost to you! These little links help me to continue sharing ideas with you on the site. You can read ALL about how I differentiate and assess sight words by reading this blog post: Assessing and Differentiating Sight Word Recognition. The kid-friendly word lists now look like this:įor your convenience, I’ve added links to the materials I talk about within the blog post. Since then, I have made this a much easier process by creating sight word lists for the first 500 Fry Sight Words.) You can grab pre-made sight word lists in my Sight Word Assessment and Word Lists resource by clicking HERE. When it is time for a student to go to our word work center, the student will grab his or her list of words, take a word work bin from our bookshelf, and get started! (When the photograph above was taken, I was still developing this resource for other teachers, so my students simply wrote their own list out by hand. How? By using a student-friendly sight word assessment program. That’s because the sight words my students practice reading (and spelling) during word work are differentiated for every student. In the photograph above, you can see that my students have sight word lists stored in little library pockets on a bulletin board in my room. We know sight words are spelled irregularly, so our students need the opportunity to practice writing and reading them over and over (and over and over and over and over) again! They needed sight word spelling practice built into our school day. I found that while I had been hoping (and encouraging and motivating and bribing and begging) my students and families to practice spelling and reading their sight words at home, many simply weren’t. Several years ago, I made the decision to dedicate this “Daily 5 word work” time strictly to sight word practice. What Words Do Students Practice During Word Work? This is similar to having word work as part of your literacy centers.
(To put it simply, it’s what your students are doing while you are teaching small group reading.) One of the activities students are engaged in throughout the week is word work. If you’re not familiar with the Daily 5, it is a management routine that takes place while you are teaching small groups. The third “word work time” in my classroom takes place during Daily 5 time. These two word work times I have listed are rooted in phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. One group might be working on CVC words while another group is sorting words with various diphthong patterns.
This word work time varies depending upon the students I’m working with. Another “word work time” takes place at the small group table. All of my students receive hands-on experiences and engage in lessons that involve making, breaking, and building words with various phonetic patterns.
One word work time takes place during a mandated teaching time using my district’s phonics program we adopted. I actually have three “word work times” in my room. Before I begin the fun, I want to quickly explain how my word work time is implemented, so that you can better understand how, when, and why I use these ideas with my students. In this post, I’m going to share TWENTY word work ideas for sight word practice in your classroom.
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