Word Wall Cheers

40 Word Wall Cheers

Word Wall Cheers

One fun way to practice spelling is to cheer the words.  Here is a list of over 40 different cheers that you can do in your classroom to help you students practice their words in a quick fun way.  Be sure to have your students say the whole word, cheer each letter, then say the whole word again.  I've been using these cheers for years in my kindergarten and first grade classrooms.  I introduce a few each week.  Then, when the kids know them all, I add them as a center activity.  The kids never seem to get tired of them!  Enjoy!

Here is the complete list:

Whisper It

Hand Jive

Raise the Roof

Disco

Throw the Stars

Mexican Hat Dance

Stomper

Motorcycle Dudes

Dribble and Shoot

Yo-Yo

Pumping Iron

Imaginary Chalkboard

Apple Picking

Robot

Tigger Bounce

Alligator Clap

Blast Off

Frogger

Back Tracer

Pat It

Boxer

Be the Letter

Hula Dance

Jumping Jacks

Toe Touches

Batter Up

Push-ups

Frisbee

Pitcher

Lumber Jack

Surfer

Swimmer

Movie Star Kisses

Opera

Fly Like a Bird

Funky Chicken

Nose Goes

Bang!

Cheerleader

Snapper Clapper

Ketchup Bottle

Volcano

Marshmallow Hands

Slow Motion

Ride'm Cowboy

Deep Voice

Mini-Mouse

Scream It

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Sound Swatter – A Phoneme Blending Game

Sound Swatter

Here's a fun phoneme blending game that I use with my emergent readers to help them become more fluent in their decoding and blending skills. My kiddos LOVE this game!

So fun!

Sound Swatter

There are 22 game boards focusing on chunks that begin with each of the vowels. All that you will need a fly swatter!

Here’s what works for me….

I project the game board on our whiteboard. My students are able to work on the game independently while I teach my reading groups. The kids take turns with the fly swatter, tapping on one onset and one rime, while their group-mates say the corresponding sounds. Then, when the “swatter” swats the mosquito (in the middle,) the group blends the segments into a word (or nonsense word.) For a challenge, I have the other kids in the group, give a “thumbs up” if the blended word is a real word, and a “thumbs down” if it’s a nonsense word.

For example: 

/c/ /-at/ cat   thumbs up

/m/ /-at/ mat   thumbs up

/p/ /-im/ pim   thumbs down

/t/ /-og/ tog   thumbs down

This fun game really helps my emergent readers become quicker at blending onsets and rimes. My kiddos love this activity!

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