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By VaSpud

I do several games with letters where my students create words and write them down.
-I have letters, some individual and others have word families or blends, written on milk lids. Students select lids to create words.

-I have color coded dice with different letters or letter combinations written on them. Students roll dice and use the green die for the first letter, yellow is next and red is last. If the word created is "real" they write it down. If not a word they roll again.
-Do you have stamps? I have letter stamps and my students stamp words.

One thing I just learned at a conference

that has increased my students eagerness is where they write the words. I did have them write on regular paper, but now I have them write on paper objects. This week they colored a kite and then played their game writing words on bows for the kite tails. After they wrote their words they cut out the bows and glued them to the tail on the kite. The kite was a simple drawing with a line as a tail for the bows to go on. At the conference the teacher had her students write on drawn bowling pins--10 is a strike, mini die-cut clipboards with paper stapled on it, shamrocks, hearts and other seasonal items. My students really like the change.