Rodar una Palabra

I teach second grade, but one of my good friends teaches kindergarten and I love creating resources for all our bitty bilinguals!  So when she came to me for a creative idea for practicing sight words for kinders, I put a twist to an old idea and came up with Rodar una palabra.

We use Pearson's Calle de la lectura at our school for our reading program so the word list for this activity is generated from the series, but in reality they are all the words that bilingual kinders are learning, so they work for all kiddos.

To play the game, a student rolls a die (I like having them in a container where they just shake the die) and the number of dots tells them which word to write.  They continue playing until a word "wins" or until they finish the paper: as the teacher, you set the rules!

I tried to differentiate for all students by offering pages that have all the spaces with the words with a dotted font to trace, some pages have a few lines with the dots as a guide, and then the other pages have just blank spaces.

Here are some other creative ways I have seen Rodar una palabra in action:

Add a big die and a dry-erase pocket for a different spin!  Added bonus, you are saving the Earth by reusing the same paper!

Add an art touch by making it "rainbow words."  Leave a sample page at the center so the students know what color goes with each number/word.  This time the students have to use the correct color as they write out their sight words!

Hope this is something that you can use with your kinders (or even firsties!).  Check it out:

Rodar una palabra - Gracieface Learning

Bobbi Stears (Gracieface Learning)
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2nd Grade Dual Lang. & Immersion
Illinois, USA