Sight Word Pancakes

Parents--this is probably my most favorite game that we play in our classroom! To practice for our weekly sight word test, every Thursday during our Word Work station we play this game (that I THOUGHT I made up, but after talking to a teacher friend at another elementary school--apparantly I'm not the first to come up with it) called Sight Word Pancakes. I like this game because it forces the students to think FAST about what the word is, which increases their automaticity. I make new "pancakes" each week and add them to the stack so that each week they still are given opportunities to practice previously tested sight words.
How to play:
- Turn over all of the pancakes so that you can't see the words.
- One person begins as the chef, who uses the spatula to flip over the first pancake.
- The first person to say the sight word out loud becomes the next chef, who flips over a new pancake!
- The game continues until all pancakes have been flipped over.

 

It's crazy what something as simple and cheap as a spatula will do to excite a child! They WANT to be the first to say each word so that they can hold that spatula!