Word Work

This week, instead of a core book, I had decided to concentrate on reviewing J's words that she has been learning in her reading program. We practice our words in many ways. Here are a few of the many ways we work with words.

J works with words in her Explode the Code. This is used daily to aid her reading program and have her work with phonics.

J uses Wikki Sticks to trace her sight words, play dough as well.

She uses her Word Whammer to practice her word families.

She practices using reading, stamping, tracing and writing.

We play games - this one is Where is Johnny Appleseed? Johnny is hiding behind one of her words. To find him, she must read the word and look behind it.

I love my magnetic letters. I try to use these often. They are great for lots of review. J is making words with them.

J reads her sight words daily. Our list is getting longer.

Word flip, she loves this one. This was a game I created when we were reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. I wrote her current words on paper cookies and she flips them with the spatula. She has to read them correctly in order to keep the cookies.

I made mini cards that we use for many different games. Here, she is finding them in the rice and reading them.

And we read......

read....read. The more she practices, the more she retains. Everyday, I like to start our reading time with different activities, so she will not get bored. I am pleased with her progress in reading but it wouldn't be possible with practice.

Here are some links for ideas on how to practice your words.

Links

Mom to 2 Posh Little Divas 75 ways to practice your spelling.

Learn with Play at Home 10 ideas for practicing sight words.

Teacher Takers free sight word worksheets - trace, color, paste type sheets.

You Might Be a First Grader  has some free printable sight word games.

Make, Take & Teach has free printable word family sliders.

Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten she has several free printable worksheet sets - word family houses, sight words, beginning sounds. These are great.

Confessions of a Homeschooler free sight word searches.

3 Dinosaurs free printable color by letter cvc words.

Little Minds at Work has a great post on phonemic awareness and phonics, plus a link to free workbook.

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1 has free color by number sight word cards, these are the type I use for wikki sticks but I have made my own as well.

A Turn to Learn a free printable sight word Uno game. We haven't played this yet but will when J learns more of her words.

Worldsapart my pinterest board for reading with more ideas, including some great links for using Bob books in teaching reading.