Snake and Sight-Words Board Game

Grade Levels: 1 - 3

Objectives

Materials

Procedures

  1. Make a copy of the snake gameboard.
  2. Take a sheet of heavy white paper and rule it off into twenty one-inch squares.
  3. On each square clearly print a sight word that your students need to learn or practice.
  4. Cover the entire sheet with clear Con-Tac plastic and cut the paper into one-inch squares.
  5. Place each of the squares face down on one of the empty squares on the snake.
  6. The game begins with the first child rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die.
  7. If the player lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
  8. If the player does so correctly, he or she replaces the word card face down and stays on the square; if not, the card is returned face down to the square and the player must retreat to the nearest shaded square behind the space on which he or she landed.
  9. The first player to get to WIN, and reads it correctly, does!

Excerpted from The Complete Teacher's Almanack.

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