Musical Sight Words: K-2 Class PE Reading Game

Get your young students excited about reading and physical activity with this MUSICAL SIGHT WORDS Whole Group PE Gym or Classroom Game!

Designed for kindergarten, first and second-grade classrooms, this engaging activity combines the fun of music and movement with essential literacy skills. Students will love hopping, jumping, skipping and dancing their way through sight word recognition, all while getting their bodies moving.

MUSICAL SIGHT WORDS–Reading/PE Game

FULL LESSON PLAN PDF

MUSICAL SIGHT WORDS is the perfect way to reinforce reading and high frequency words in a fun, dynamic, and interactive setting. Bring the magic of this multisensory learning experience to your classroom and watch your students thrive in their reading and fitness development!

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

For this game you will need:

Different Colored Poly Spots (You need as many spots as you have students)
Basket
2 Sets of Sight Word Cards (You need as many cards as you have poly spots) You can get the sight word flashcards that I use RIGHT HERE!
Music Source

GAME SET-UP

Grab as many poly spots as you have students. Tape a “sight word card” to
the front of each poly spot and put the matching “sight word card” in a
basket.

Spread the spots out on the gym floor with the “sight word” side facing up.
Put the basket with the second set of matching word cards in the middle of
the gym.

GAME DIRECTIONS – How to Play

Explain to the students that when the music starts they should walk, skip,
hop or gallop around the gym. Feel free to use any locomotor skill that you
would like your students to work on.

When the teacher stops the music, students should move to quickly find a
word spot and stand on it. For the first round of play, the teacher chooses a
sight word card from the basket, shows it and yells it out. The student who
is standing on that word shouts the word out, spells the word, and then
they earn a point.

The teacher starts the music again and the children begin moving around
the gym again. When the teacher stops the music, the last student who
earned a point gets to choose the next word from the basket and read it
aloud.

Continue playing until all or most students have had a chance to earn a point
and choose a word to read and spell from the basket.

GAME TEACHING TIPS

TIP 1: Sometimes it’s fun to play the elimination version of this game. Just
take away a spot each round until you get down to just one student winner,
like the classic game of “Musical Chairs.” So they don’t feel like they “GOT
OUT.”
TIP 2: I usually have my students go to a section of the gym and practice
jumping rope, playing catch with a friend or practicing with a hula hoop.
TIP 3: This is a fun game to play with grade appropriate math facts too.

This game is highly adaptable and is perfect for PE class, homeschool settings, classroom and tutoring games and so much more!

GREAT NEWS! You can snag your very own PDF of this awesome 7 Page Teacher Resource RIGHT HERE.

This awesome resource Includes:

-Eye Catching One Page Easy-to-Follow MUSICAL SIGHT WORDS Lesson Plan (Perfect for giving to a substitute teacher)

-Diagram of Game Set-Up and Play

-Extra Game Tips to make this game even more fun to play with your students

-3 Pages of Easy to Print High Frequency kindergarten Sight Word Flashcards ready to print, laminate, cut out and use with the game

-I have also included a 100 Sight Word list for you to pull from for this game- I used this sight word list with my students for the four years that I taught kindergarten. Every year I had over 80 percent of my students learn to correctly read, write, and spell all 100 of these MUST KNOW words by the end of kindergarten! This is an AWESOME LIST that helped produce some pretty incredible kindergarten readers.

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