We are practicing a game with our boxes of words and assorted word tiles. This can support sight word knowledge, letter and sound knowledge, and baseline skills like matching upper and lower case letters:
"WORD!" between 2 friends:
1. stack a pile of words upside down
2. spread out a selection of letter tiles, either lower case or some varieties like Bananagrams (scrabble tiles for adults) come in upper case - spread them out between the two friends with all the letters facing up and visible
3. choose who goes first
4. first person flip over top word, say it if you know it
5. both people scramble to be the first to line up all the tiles for that word
6. if you finish first you shout, "word" and your friend needs to agree that you have all the correct letter tiles for that word
7. whoever finished first gets that word to keep in their pile
8. I often add a component to all our word work activities that includes partners or groups agreeing on all the "sounds" for each letter or grouping of letters and then saying or reading the word in play
... the game continues with the other person flipping over the next word card and so on...
You can personalize this game at home to any words in your child's little books coming home, the sight words we may have shared at conference and/or names of special places, people things in your home or pertinent to your life! Just cut up some card stock paper and print some words to pile up, wrangle up some word tiles or even the magnetic letters from a dollar store and get playing "WORD!"
Depending how many letter tiles or letters you have, this could be played with 3 or 4 friends at a time as well... we often start games with partners first so everyone gets more turns and more chances for success and help from a friend. Note that a lot of my word tiles come from games that have or had other purposes, but I've repurposed them for our games and we will graduate to other types of play in grade 2!
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