Purpose

To develop students’ emergent reading skills

Developmental Area(s)

Language: Building sight word vocabulary to increase complex sentence skills

Motor: Fine Motor

Lesson Objective(s)

Find hidden words in the magnet tile grid

Materials

• Magnetic Tiles
• Marker

Preparation

Prior to the lesson, decide on a list of 5-8 words that you would like students to find in the word search. Make sure that the words are within students’ developmental range. Next, arrange magnet tiles in a 10x7 grid and add chosen words in any desired order.

Procedure

Introduce Activity

• Review the list of words with students so they are familiar

• If needed, complete an example word search, showing

  students’ how to find and circle sight words

Activity

1. As a group, give each student a marker and let them gather

   around the word search grid and search for sight words.

2. Provide guiding assistance as needed (i.e. “What does the

   word cat start with? Do you see the letter C?”

3. Continue steps #1 and #2 until all words are found!

Differentiation

General Challenges

• Print a visual representation of the finished product.

• Rather than as a group activity, make individual word search

  grids for each child if there are many different developmental levels

Assessment

When finished the activity, ask children to show the words they found on the word search. OPTIONAL: Point to each word on the list and ask students to choose the circled word on the word grid.