Word Study

Matching Games

So for one of my classes, we have a reading student and we have to write lesson plans to do with them. In those lesson plans, we always have to have a word study activity. I've done word ladders, actual word sorts, then I saw a matching game. Ding Ding Ding! How could I not have thought of that?! Sadly the one I looked at wasn't on the topic my student was struggling with. So I decided to make my own, but this is where I got the genius idea from: http://thisreadingmama.com/digraph-sorting-picture-cards/ 

This is a screen cap of mine, my student needed more practice with the long and short vowels. So that's what I did, I also added in words that could have long a sounds but they weren't just "silent-e" words. 

My student loved doing these, and we made it little competition between him and I. He "beat" me ;) I didn't do a straight up matching game, more of draw the finding card and then find a match that way. You could just do a sort with this idea as well.

I also made one for r-controlled vowels, a word only one which is easier and a picture only one which is harder. You could just merge them together though! 

You can make your own from scratch, use my idea (please give credit), or search Pinterest (give those people credit too, it's the nice thing to do). These took me like 20 minutes maybe just because I had to think of words and pictures for each, and then I still had to cut them out. I also recommend to print these on cardstock or get them laminated! I plan on eventually laminating them, but I'm lazy...

Anyways

Keep On, Teaching On,

Charity