Janet Grigsbyfrom Kentucky sent me this idea last week. I LOVE it and you will, too! It could be adapted for phonics, words, questioningstrategies, 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 notchcut out to hold a letter. Theteacher puts one letter in each child’s headband, but they do not know whatletter the teacher gave them. Thestudents sitting in the class look at the three letters and try to decode theword. The teacher calls on a studentto decode the word. After the wordis correctly decoded, the students who are wearing the headbands must tell whatletter they think is on their headband.
To play the gamewith blends, digraphs or silent e, have four students wear headbands.
To make theheadbands I stapled together tagboard that was about four inches wide. I cut three sides of a square (each cutwas 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 itfits into the slot.
There is a game onthe market called Headbandz that I designed this game after. In the Headbandz game, children have apicture in their Headband. Students give clues and students must guess what picture they have intheir headband.
Hope you likethis. Our teachers have beenplaying this game and say the kids love, love, love it!
I used asentence strip to make this headband. If you put a brad on either end you can insert a rubber band so itadjusts to different size heads. I used a paperclip instead of cutting the slots.
