Education Standards
Fun With Words Activity
Overview
Ready to have a fun and learning-centered activity for your students? You've come to the right place! For this activity, we will be including physical interaction from the students. This will include attempting to form words with their bodies, and other physical movemements of your choosing. This activity comes in two parts. Most useful to students in early elementary grades, Kindergarten -- 2nd grade
Word Activity Instruction
Ready to have a fun and learning-centered activity for your students? You've come to the right place! For this activity, we will be including physical interaction from the students. This will include attempting to form words with their bodies, and other physical movemements of your choosing. This activity comes in two parts. The first part is an activity where students use their bodies to form words. For example, students will work together to form the word C-A-T. One student forms the letter C, one forms the letter A, and so on. This way, students get to be physical, collaberate with their peers, and learn how to spell!
The next activity includes being physical as well. The educator will hold a soft ball in their hands and will either say or have a word presented on Kahoot or other platform, the student then will raise their hand and attempt to spell and pronounce the word correctly. If they get it right, the teacher will toss the lightweight ball to the student. The student will then throw it back to the teacher.
Also, These activities can be used for Speech Language Pathologists as well. My Kahoot example provided shows this.
For these activities you will need:
- Kahoot or other platform that's similar
- various sight words or any other words of choosing
- a soft ball or other safe throwing object
- plenty of space for students to participate!
Kahoot example link : https://create.kahoot.it/details/95247f55-52f8-45cc-a362-448731c9fc70
Resources
Here are links from two helpful OER activities that helped me make my own activity!
"Spell And Play Lesson" - https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/103522/student/427100
Spell and Play is an interactive Kindergarten through 2nd grade activity.
"Sight Word Spelling" - oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/c1980c3e-74ab-4220-b683-549ad66544aa/sight-word-spelling/?student=true&focus=true
Sight Word Spelling has four different activity ideas to help students with their spelling. I chose activity three!