I don’t know about your students but mine LOVE when they’re able to get up and move (without getting in trouble). This year, I have an extra rowdy bunch, so I’ve tried to incorporate more games and activities that gets my students moving while they’re learning. This sight word movement game has been the perfect addition to my classroom!
Sight Word Run the Room – A Sight Word Movement Game
This is a super low maintenance game to set up and is all the rage once your students start playing! Here’s how you set up and the many ways you can play.
Set Up
Type in your sight words and print out the pages you need. I do 6 sight words a week so I print them out 6 at a time. I also laminate these pages so they’ll keep for many years to come.
Included in my Sight Word Run the Room resource, is an easy set up page. All you need to do is type your sight words into the chart (it can hold up to 30 sight words at once). Once you’ve typed your words, the sight words magically appear in all the different page options. I’ve included a whole page, half page and quarter page options. Then print, laminate and stick around the room.
Directions
Once your sight words are posted around the room, you’re ready to play. There are many different ways to play this game and all of them are described in my Sight Word Run the Room resource but I’m going to explain my students and my top three favorites below.
For an easy set up and 3 different size option cards, click the picture below!
First Way to Play
My students FAVORITE way to play is freeze dance style! I put on music (Kidz Bop is always a hit) and they dance around the room until I freeze the song. They freeze, I say “Find a sight word” and they run to the nearest sight word. Then, I pull an equity stick to call on a student and that student tells us the sight word and uses it in a sentence.
*If the student doesn’t know the sight word they’re standing at, I let them call on a friend to help them. Teamwork!
Second Way to Play
Our second favorite way is through setting up a “track” in my classroom. I call it a track, however, they just circle around all our tables. Students must go the same way around the track and I give them certain ways to move around it. When I say freeze, they stop, find a sight word and again I pull an equity stick. They say the word and use it in a sentence.
Third Way to Play
Another way to play is by calling out a sight word, students run to that word and then the teacher pulls an equity stick and the student says a sentence with that word in it.
This sight word movement game has been such a hit in my classroom and is a fabulous way to get your students up and moving while still learning an important skill like their sight words!
How do you keep your students engaged? Let me know below!
