Word Twister

Sounding out One-Syllable Words in a Twister Game

Stage of Literacy Development:

Stage 1: Beginning Literacy
Stage 2: Consolidation / Fluency

Ages:

4-7

Grade Range:

K 1st

Food Groups:

Primary:
Phonemic Awareness, Letter-Sound Correspondences
Secondary:
Motivation for Literacy

Transcript

Student: What is this? This game looks fun.

Teacher: So this game, we're going to spin this right foot yellow. You're going to put your right foot on one of those yellow circles. Whichever word you chose, you have to read it and take it off. All right, so right hand on blue.

Student: Right hand on see.

Teacher: Good job. And left foot blue.

Student: Umm hrush?

Teacher: Let's do one sound at a time.

Student: Hrush

Teacher: Oh, let's do one sound at a time.

Student: /h/u/s/h/. Hush?

Teacher: Yes, good job! Oh wow, look at you. Ok next one is left foot on red. Where's your left?

Student: It's tree.

Teacher: Yes, good job!

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Activity Objective

The goal of Word Twister: Sounding out One-Syllable Words in a Twister Game is to help students develop their decoding skills through a fun and engaging game. The teacher takes the classic Twister Game and adds words to the various colored circles that students must sound out as they land on them.

Quick Tips

Additional Comments:

- You can add a bit more fun by inviting a few more students to play (maximum four students is recommended).
- As students land on each word, they can remove it and pick a new word from the pile to replace it with. This will help keep the game flowing.
- You can change the theme of each word for every color. For example, you can use cvc words for red circles, rhyming words for blue, etc.
- Try to incorporate some words from your class word wall to begin as students will be more familiar with these words.