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This activity
is a very effective (and fun!) away to encourage
early readers. Do this before you read your book
with your students.
- Select a book
(a short book works best here).
- Write each
of the words in the book on a card.
- Shuffle the
cards and distribute among the “players”.
This activity is good if your are working with
a small group of students, but it can be played
with just one student too.
- Ask students
to turn over the cards they have been dealt,
and to lay them neatly in front of them. (Let
the students see each other’s cards—this
is part of the learning process).
- Explain to
your students that you will read the book slowly
and that you want each student to look at his/her
cards to see if he/she has a match. If a student
has a match, he/she can place the card in the
center of the table.
- Keep track
of who has identified the most words! Try to
keep the pace moving along.
- After you
have read the book to them and they have identified
all the words with you, ask them to re-read
the book.
- You will find
that the “Word Race” prepares them
to win the Reading Game!
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This is a good game for early
fluent to fluent readers. It can be adapted for
many uses—you can use this matching game
to practice high frequency words, initial consonant
sounds, blends, and digraphs to name a few. The
explanation below uses the game as a pre-reading
activity to practice words from a book to be read.
To Make:
- Select 10 - 20 words from
a book (or books) the child is reading. Print
them clearly on index cards, making pairs of
each word. (Children may help by copying the
words you write.) Two to four players can play
comfortably.
To Play:
Shuffle and deal 3 - 5 cards to each player. Place
the rest of the deck face down.
- Players take turns asking
each other for a card to match one held in his
or her hand. If the opponent has a matching
card, it is given over, and the first player
takes another turn. If the opponent does not
have a match, he or she says "Go Fish"
and the player draws from the remaining deck
of cards, and the next player takes a turn.
- Each time a player has
a match, he or she reads the words, and puts
down the pair, face up. Continue the game until
the cards are all used up.
Variation:
Instead of matching words, rhyming words can be
used. In this case, players ask for "a word
that sounds like 'bed'..."
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This is a popular
activity with emergent readers, and builds individual
word awareness and recognition as well as understanding
of sentence order.
- Using a familiar
sentence or from a book and print it on a strip.
- Then prepare
the individual cards for each word. At first,
start with only three or four word sentences
or phrases. When the student is comfortably
mastering this you can add more words, up to
about six.
- First, read
the sentence or phrase with the student, and
lay out the cards in order. Ask the student
to read the sentence with you pointing to individual
words. Then mix up the cards and ask the student
to reorder them. S/he may use the strip as a
prompt, or may prefer to try it alone and then
check.
- Notice how
the student approaches the task. Does s/he say
words aloud as s/he arranges them, or does s/he
do it silently? Does s/he reread the sequence
of the words as s/he builds the sentence, using
the cadence and the context? Does s/he build
sequentially or at random? What other cues does
s/he use?
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What you'll need:
- Cards or wide
strips of paper
- Scissors
- Pen/pencil/marker
- Print each
strip with the same sentence from a familiar
book or story. Leave one strip in-tact and cut
the other strip up into individual words. Be
sure the write the text clearly in print letters.
From:
Reading Games for Tutors by Claudia Gross
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This is a good game for early
fluent to fluent readers. It can be adapted for
many uses—you can use this matching game
to practice high frequency words, initial consonant
sounds, blends, and digraphs to name a few. The
explanation below uses the game as a pre-reading
activity to practice words from a book to be read.
To Make:
- Select 10 - 20 words from
a book (or books) the child is reading. Print
them clearly on index cards, making pairs of
each word. (Children may help by copying the
words you write.) Two to four players can play
comfortably.
To Play:
Shuffle and deal 3 - 5 cards to each player. Place
the rest of the deck face down.
- Players take turns asking
each other for a card to match one held in his
or her hand. If the opponent has a matching
card, it is given over, and the first player
takes another turn. If the opponent does not
have a match, he or she says "Go Fish"
and the player draws from the remaining deck
of cards, and the next player takes a turn.
- Each time a player has
a match, he or she reads the words, and puts
down the pair, face up. Continue the game until
the cards are all used up.
Variation:
Instead of matching words, rhyming words can be
used. In this case, players ask for "a word
that sounds like 'bed'..."
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