Sometimes we do activities like Syllable Squats and Nym Gyms from Vocabulary Unplugged
. (Some sample pages here, website here.)We have made Word Family Webs on chart paper (act: acts, acted, action, actor, activate, etc.) and then we used Evernote on the iPod Touches to create a class collection of word families. (Thank you Maria and Mark! In fact, thank you, Maria, for the whole concept of Word Wednesday!)
Sometimes we work on Spelling City. I have gathered lots of lists of words (from -at and -ing words to Velma's words in The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis
...this would be an example of real-world differentiation) and on Spelling City, students can pretest, play games, write sentences and posttest.I've written about how I use the SmartBoard and my classroom mirror for word study. Recently, I took a bunch of juicy words (from one of the Thea Stilton
books) off the mirror and put them on the SmartBoard. We practiced finding the root word and the affixes, and the Thea reader stood a few inches taller because HER juicy words helped us learn.We have lots of favorite word games to play on the iPod Touches on Word Wednesday. (You might guess that this is a favorite activity for Word Wednesday!) We like Wurdle, Chicktionary, and Bookworm. Soon we'll have Words With Friends (a current obsession of mine). We'll use the "Pass and Play" feature.
What are your favorite ways to celebrate words, collect words, play with words, and learn words -- on your own, or with your students?
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ReplyDeleteSorry Mary Lee had to delete the first post it had a spelling error:( Thanks for the mention- Wonderful Word Wednesday is one of our classes favorite days of the week.
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful ideas. I have a word work option during our reading dailies throughout the day. These would make great additions. Thank you for sharing!
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