Spotlight on Awesome Halloween Reading Center Games that will make you Shriek BOO!
Don’t let literacy centers give you the SPOOKS. ย We all know that when students are engaged during the reading block that learning is enhanced and behavior management runs smoothly. ย Today I’d love to share with you 6 fantastic games that promote mastery of word family recognition, letter recognition, letter sounds, CVC blending and segmenting, sight words, and even critical thinking/problem solving. ย In the spirit of Halloween, we’ll keep things slightly spooky – but never scary!
Bippity, Boppity, BUMP! is a fast-paced game of BUMP where students spin a spinner read the CVC/word family word shown, and cover a corresponding picture. ย Students can “BUMP” another player’s token of a picture until it is “locked” by having two counters on it. ย Students will build word family recognition and automaticity without even knowing they’re learning!
Witches, Wizards, and Words! is a board game that focuses on short vowel CVC words. ย You (or students) can choose from one of 5 boards to play on – one for each of the vowels.
Do your students love puzzles? ย Double, Double, Potions and Puzzles is a set of 3 puzzles where students use their knowledge of letters recognition and beginning sounds to assemble festive Halloween images.
Frankenrhymes? ย Think rhyming dominos. ย In this game students work together or independently to match rhyming pairs and complete the domino train.
Black Cat Bingo is a completely EDITABLE bingo game for some serious fall fun! ย Choose 10 sight words, letters, cvc words, etc. and type them into the editable form in the file. ย The file will automatically populate bingo calling cards and 10 different bingo playing cards.
SPOOKY-Doku is a twist on the number version of Sudoku. ย Students work to complete each of the rows and columns so that only one of each picture is in each. ย I love this game for building problem solving and critical thinking skills.
I can not wait for October so that I can roll these Halloween Literacy Games out! ย They are going to pair perfectly with my [Halloween Math Center Games]! ย You can check out the reading games on TpT by clicking the image below!
These are awesome Halloween activities.