Janet Grigsby
from Kentucky sent me this idea last week. I LOVE it and you will, too! It could be adapted for phonics, words, questioning
strategies, math, and so much more!
For CVC words,
three students are chosen to stand in the front of the class. Each student wears a headband with a notch
cut out to hold a letter. The
teacher puts one letter in each child’s headband, but they do not know what
letter the teacher gave them. The
students sitting in the class look at the three letters and try to decode the
word. The teacher calls on a student
to decode the word. After the word
is correctly decoded, the students who are wearing the headbands must tell what
letter they think is on their headband.
To play the game
with blends, digraphs or silent e, have four students wear headbands.
To make the
headbands I stapled together tagboard that was about four inches wide. I cut three sides of a square (each cut
was about an inch) in the middle of the headband. The bottom of the square, I did not cut. An index card with a letter on it
fits into the slot.
There is a game on
the market called Headbandz that I designed this game after. In the Headbandz game, children have a
picture in their Headband.
Students give clues and students must guess what picture they have in
their headband.
Hope you like
this. Our teachers have been
playing this game and say the kids love, love, love it!
I used a
sentence strip to make this headband.
If you put a brad on either end you can insert a rubber band so it
adjusts to different size heads. I used a paper
clip instead of cutting the slots.