I've been playing around with Connect 4 and think I've found a fun way to use it for fluency/sight words. I turned it into a game of speed so that students will be practicing recognizing and reading the sight words quickly and (hopefully) accurately.
I copied the same set of sight words onto yellow paper and onto red paper. These cards came from the "Sixth Hundred" flashcards found here, but any set would work. The rules are attached below.
sight_word_connect_4.docx |
I also created a version that uses BLOCKS. These are just Connect 4 tokens with a sticker on them that players can use at any time (three per color) to make the other player have to skip a turn. Those instructions are attached below.
connect_4__with_blocks_.docx |