Word Work Adventures: Quick Activities to Warm Up your Guided Reading Lesson
If I had to pick a favorite time of my school day I would definitely have to say it is any time I have the opportunity to work in a smaller group with my students. I love having the chance to have conversations with my students and get to know them as learners.
Our small group Guided Reading Time is precious to me because I love watching them grow as readers and help them with different reading strategies and skills as they navigate through the text.
My favorite way to start any guided reading lesson is to begin with 5-7 minutes of word work skills. Let’s be honest, our time is precious. Whether it is the time we are taking to pull lessons together or our time actually working with students there is only so much time and I wanted to make use of every moment! I wanted to create a quick and easy way to have several word work activities at my fingertips to pull and use.
Luckily, Word Work Task Card Adventures do just that and my students LOVE using them. Whenever I pull my students to the table they are excited to see what adventure we will be working with for that session. Not to mention it is always an added bonus to use a dry erase marker and our favorite mini erasers.
The Task Cards fit perfectly in the 4″x 6″ Photo Cases you can find on Amazon or Michael’s. I know certain times of the year Michael’s has a great sale on them (especially during back to school season)
Within my Word Work Adventures Bundle there are 16 different adventures that cover a variety of word work skills. You can pick and choose the activities that fit with the group you are working with or choose all eight word work skills to do a quick review.
Each Word Work Adventure practice the following word work skills:
- Letters/Sounds
- CVC Words
- Vowel Practice
- Syllables
- Rhyming
- Sound Substitution
- Sight Words
- Sentence Fluency
There are 10 task cards for each skill listed above.
Depending on the reading group I am working with I will usually pull 3-4 cards to practice with. I usually base it off the skills we are currently practicing or reviewing a skill if it has been difficult for a group.
One activity we love to do with our CVC Task Cards especially this time of year is to chop the three sounds, write them on a slate, and then pick one or two to use in a sentence. It’s such a quick and easy way to practice so many skills at once.
If you are interested you can click the link below to access a FREEBIE Sample to try with your class.
Word Work Adventures Sample FREEBIE
You can also click the link to access the Word Work Task Card Adventures Bundle.
Thank you for taking the time to read through my post about Word Work. I hope you found some valuable activities and ideas to use in your classroom. If you ever have any questions I am happy to help.