Want to work in small groups and have fun problem solving new words?

Well in reading groups today, Miss Sallis’ reading group of year 2 and 3 students had some time to play some word games after reading.

These are the two games we played:

• Race up the ladder
• Sight word soup

The way you play Race up the ladder is in pairs you pick up a word card and read it. If you can read the word correctly, you move your counter one rung up the ladder. Then it’s your partner’s turn. If you don’t know a word, you can’t move your counter up the ladder. First person to the top wins! If you want to make it more challenging, like our teacher did, you can have a set of word cards that go from fairly easy to tricky – that way, you really have to think when you read.

Sight word soup is a fun game – you sit in a circle in a small group and pass around a plastic bowl. In the bowl are lots of word cards from the story that you are reading. Also in the bowl are cards that have a picture of a soup bowl and the word SOUP on it. Everyone has a turn picking a word card and reading it. You keep all your cards until you pick up a ‘soup’ card – then that means you need to put ALL your cards back in the tin and you don’t win the game.

Look at the pictures of us working together and enjoying these activities.