Sight Word Foam Dice

Another Dollar Tree specialty. I had some foam blocks left over from the Dollar Tree and wanted to create some sort of literacy activity. I decided I would use them for a word study station to practice sight words.

I used the green, blue, and red dice for the consonant letters.

I used the orange cubes for the vowels so they could be easily distinguished from the consonants.

Here's how the activity goes; it would probably work best in a center. Instruct your students to pick one orange dice and two others.

Then they will roll and try to make a word. If it's gibberish, roll again! In this case, I did not roll gibberish so I would form a word.

Writing down the words is a great addition to this activity. You could have your students either write down the words on a worksheet you provide in the station or in their notebook; whatever works best in your classroom!

For your students who need to be challenged, have them roll more dice.

Another way to use the dice would be to have the students use them to form words without rolling. Each student would have a pile of dice and they pick out letters they need to form words they come up with or find around the classroom.

What an easy, cheap addition to your classroom centers!