Word Work Making Words

I blogged last week about how I am structuring word work time in my classroom.


This blog post will share with some word work stations I do in kindergarten.

Making Words 

Build 

Mix 

Fix 

Write 

I found this center much more manageable when I put out these little white boards I bought at Lakeshore.

 I put the magnetic letters on the board. The students come over to the table and work on one word at a time. When the student finishes, they pass the board to someone else.

{All of the five words that we are working on for the week}

Using magnetic letters can be confusing and messy in the beginning. I try to have an adult at the table the first few weeks. Once students are comfortable making words I, introduce the recording sheet.

words recording sheets 
{ word list from Teacher College }

Fountas and Pinnell suggest...

 Whenever possible, have children manipulate magnetic letters. These letters can be used for many purposes-sorting, building, manipulating words, changing letters to make new words, as models for writing the letters.

 I got these little containers at IKEA I think in the spice section.

This year I have two word walls. One wall is for words that everyone in the class is learning and expected to know. We add words slowly to this wall once we learn them.

The other word wall I use for the students who came to kindergarten knowing a lot of sight words. I have the wall above filled with sight words we are learning. There are words on this wall that we have not learned yet. This wall makes management easier for me. I can quickly take words down and use them during station time.

The Alphabet Station

{Using an Alphabet Chart}

Click here for Alphabet Station Chart 

On TPT, this year I bought Joelle's Beginning Sound Match Up, and I love it! It is an easy game that uses magnetic letters for matching. I think it is a great station to add to your word work time.