Rebecca Harrison

October 5th, 2016

Sight Word Cube Game
Grade Level: 1st
Approximate length of lesson: 10 minutes
Skill/ Strategy/ Focus: Sight Words

1.1

Integration of Learning Outcomes

During a sight word game, students will be able to identify at least
60% (6/10), of the words involved in the game.
1.2 Standards
(Students are below on their sight words, so I added both kindergarten and
1st grade standards in)
Standard - CC.1.1.K.D- Know and apply grade level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic
knowledge of one-to one letter-sound correspondence. Associate
the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major
vowels. Read grade level high-frequency sight words with
automaticity. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by
identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Standard - CC.1.1.1.D- Know and apply grade level phonics and
word analysis skills in decoding words. Identify common
consonant diagraphs, final-e, and common vowel teams. Decode
one and two-syllable words with common patterns. Read grade
level words with inflectional endings. Read grade-appropriate
irregularly spelled words.
1.3 Formative and Summative Assessment
Formative assessment- I will assess students by hearing them
say the words throughout the game. Students will have to identify
at least 60% of the words in the game. On a sticky note I will tally
each time I hear that student identify a word.

Summative assessment- An assessment will happen later on

when students have practiced the set of words enough times.

1.4 Materials
Sight word cards with Velcro backings
Sight word cube
Sight word cards/ list
Work sheets
Crayons

 Pencil
1.5

Anticipatory Set
Connected back to the sight word assessment.
Explaining what we did and what was given to the students to practice.
Introduce the game briefly, and explain.
Go over the list of sight words they were given.

Does anyone remember the last few weeks when Ms. Welc or myself
would call you back to read some sight words for us? Since we have finished,
Ms. Welc sat down and made sight word cards for you to practice at home!
Its important to know our sight words, especially when we are reading our
books, so that we understand what is going on in the story. Today we are
going to play a game to help us practice our sight words.
Direction: Heres what we will do during our game, first you will roll the
cube. When the cube lands, you will read the word that it has landed on.
After that you will color in the word on our worksheet. Before we get started
with our game lets go over our word cards together.
*teacher note Students will not be introduced to these sight words
beforehand. MUST go over them or they will not get 60% of them right
during game.
* If students dont get the word while going over the list, GIVE it to them,
since it is the first exposure.
1.6 Procedures
Teacher Modeling:
Explain the right and wrong ways to use the cube
Show them how to do it, roll the cube, say the word, color the
word in.
Before we get started, let me show how you how we are going to play the
game.
-Here you will model rolling the cube
-How to say the word
-Show them where to color in the word corresponding to the right box
Can anyone tell me the wrong way to roll the cube?
-Looking foryou dont throw the cube across the room, we dont hit
our friends, etc.
Right! We dont want to throw the cube across the room, instead we want to
gently roll the cube in front of us. Are we ready to play the game??
Guided Practice:
Students will begin to play the game.

After the first student rolls the cube, stop and help them through
it.
Awesome let's get started!
-Student rolls the cube
Say the word yes! Look! Now you find the word look on your worksheet
and color it in.
*repeat as many times as needed
Independent Practice and Application
-Students will continue to play the game
-Help students if you see them struggling
-Giving encouragement as they go along
awesome I love how you are pronouncing your words, coloring, and rolling
your cube gently, etc
1.7

1.8

Closure
-Wrap it up
-Tell why its important again
- Go over sight word cards one last time
You all did great with our game today! When you are practicing these
words at home, keep in mind that they are important to know so that
we understand our books better. Before you go to silent reading, lets
go over our word cards one more time.

Differentiation
For students who needs help with the word or if student doesnt
know the word during the game. Give them the word. DO NOT
have them sound out sight words.
Example:
Teacher- the word is look what word?
Student- Look
Teacher- again, what word?
Student- Look
Teacher- Yes. Look
Teacher- We look out the window
Then continue with the game.
For students who need a challenge during this activity, I will have
them create a sentence with the word. This will also encourage
more memorization/ practicing skills.
Example:
Teacher- hmm.. could anyone give me this word in a sentence?
Student- I saw her at the store!
Teacher- Love it! I saw her at the store!

2.0 Reflection On Planning

- When Ms. Welc first talked about my lessons she gave me two topics to
work with for the first observation. Which was, a sight word game or reading
a book to show students patterns within the book. I choose to do the sight
word game, since I have been assessing each student on their sight words
from the start of field.
In other field classes, you are told to be creative, so thats what my
goal was for this lesson. While creating this lesson, I was reading my special
education book for EDA 314, Strategies for Teaching Learners with Special
Needs. One of the ideas I got from this book was, differentiation for students
who might be struggling with sight words. It said to NEVER discourage the
student by saying things like good try but. Instead give them the word
and ask them about it again, this will help them connect the word when they
see it and when they say it. When you tell a student that they are wrong for
things like sight words, they will feel discouraged and may check out of the
lesson. I hope to focus on this during my lesson on Wednesday, and really
focus on my encouraging teacher talk!
-Creating this lesson was fun to do! Ms. Welc gave us some ideas of sight
word games in the beginning of field. With the help of Pinterest, I found two
activities and worked them together. Once I created my learning outcomes,
the assessment was easy to do. The one part I struggled with was fitting
standards into this lesson. One reason was because the students I will be
doing the game with are lower than other students when it comes to the
sight word list. Second, a lot of standards do not focus on sight words alone,
they are incorporated in with other things. For this I chatted with my
professor after class, and decided to add two standards that could fit best in
this situation. Another thing that was a struggle for this lesson was adding
things in for the guided practice and independent practice. This was hard to
do since it is a game I do with the students. The students cant really go and
do this by themselves unless I created individual cubes for each of them.
One of the things Ive been trying to practice during my field courses is
flowing my lessons better. Over all, my concern for this lesson is that it wont
flow very well together but Im hoping for the best!
2.1

Reflection On Instruction

Directions:
Two sets of sight word cards, Set 1b and Set 3A.
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First you will roll the cube

When the cube lands you will read the word that it landed on
After that you will color it in the word on our worksheet.