Fall is here (well...it is supposed to be in my part of the world). In celebration, a group of bloggy friends and I got together to created a A Harvest of Freebies Blog Hop. Hop through each blog and harvest your freebies. Some of them are for this weekend only, so don't wait!
When I was getting my Masters in Reading, one of the
classes I had to take was a summer reading camp for children in the
surrounding area. The teachers were split into groups of four to five.
Each group was given around ten children. At that moment, I was a
middle school teacher. My college professor wanted us to get experience
working with a grade level different from our own, so my students were
all soon-to-be second graders. This was my first experience working
with younger students, and it was a blast! Each teacher in my group
"adopted" two of the students. I worked with a boy and a girl who were
adorable! After giving them some assessments to figure out what we
needed to work on, I found out that they need work on sight words. This
was summer camp, so it needed to be fun.
The other teachers and I talked and we decided sight word bingo would be the way to
go. Each student is given a blank card.
In each box of the blank card, they wrote sight words from a given
list. The teacher had a master list of sight words on index cards. The teacher would say a word. If the student had
that word on their card, he or she put a marker over that word. Five in
a row wins. We used a variety of markers: beans, buttons, candy,
etc. The students loved playing this game. We would end every day of
summer camp playing this.
Would you like your own copy? Click on the
picture below. In the
file, you will get a blank cards that are themed for fall and Halloween and every
sight word on the Dolch Word list (color coded). The word lists are
sized to be printed on labels and placed on index cards or you can print them on card stock and laminate. There are also
some blank cards, so you can add your own words.
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