[ggteach]

I want some ideas on literacy games that I can make myself. This is my first year teaching first grade, I taught Kinder for 2 years. What I have so far, not much

Sight word games:
Parking lot (Making a parking lot on poster board write sight words in each space, kids roll a die they must move a toy car to that spot if they can read the word they can park their car if not they have to go back)

Rotten Bananas (Cut out bananas both yellow and a few brown, write sight words on the yellow ones and put them in a tissue box with 2 or three brown ones. Pass the box around have kids pull a banana out and read the word, if they know the word they keep the banana if not they put it back. When someone pulls out a brown banana stop the game and have everyone count the bananas the one with the most wins.)

Tic-Tac-Toe (Make a large tic-tac-toe grid on poster board and write words in each space. Cut out some x's and o's, if a student can read the word in the space they can place their x or o there.

Crash (same as rotten banana but it's with cars)

Dial-Up

Swat the fly (Write sight words on flies. You call a word out and the one who swats the fly with that word first gets to keep it)

[HeatherJ]

Those are all cute games!

My grade 1's loved to play Word wall bingo. They were given a blank grid (3 x 3 early in the year, 4 x 4 later) and they picked their own words from the wall, that they knew. When they got the row, they had to stand up and use the words in sentences to get the Bingo.

[Ticklebug]

Take a look at FCRR's literacy centers. These are great, and you don't have to do a lot of work after you download them.
http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/studentCenterActivities.htm
You'll find lots of great things you can use throughout the year.

[cajunteacher]

try carl's corner

[K-Jeanne]

I like to play heads up, but instead of guessing who picked them the students have to read high frequency words, a short phrase, spell spelling words or answer addition/subtraction problems. They love it! It also takes away the peeking eyes- they are not guessing who picked them. Everyone feels successful and I get a good grasp of who knows what when we play.

[BoSox_Fan]

I take a plain wooden cube (from Michael's), write sight words on circle stickers and put a different word on each side of the cube. The kids roll the cube and record on a chart which word they rolled (by writing it in the chart). They are essentially graphing their die rolls and racing words to the top. I eventually add sentence writing and graphing questions to the game to keep writing and math skills up.

Hope this makes sense. Let me know if it doesn't and I'll try to do a better job!

[smoige2]

I take a deck of cards (removing the Kings, Queens, Aces & Jacks) and paste sight words on them. Then I teach the students how to play War or High Low. In a small group, I deal all the cards out. Then everyone flips one card over. Whoever has the highest numbered card has to try and read all of the words on everyone else's card. If they can read the word, they win the card. If they can't read it, I let someone else give it a try. They keep playing until someone has won all of the cards. After you teach the game and monitor it for awhile, the kids will be able to play it with just a partner or a small group without any need for supervision.