Showing posts with label review activities for the classroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review activities for the classroom. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2015

Pick Up Sticks/Drop Sticks Game

I did a presentation on classroom strategies recently, and this is one of my most popular activities from that session. The idea is to use it as a tool for review and reinforcement.

On your sticks write a concept (s) that you would like to review.  I did morphemes with my tutoring students.  Here is how it works.

1.  The teacher or students drop the sticks on the table.
2.  The students take turns picking up a stick
3.  If the student moves any other sticks as they are going for their stick of choice, they lose a turn.  In
     other words, it's a test of fine motor skills grabbing those sticks without moving another one.
4.  The student names the concept (read the word, name the math fact, says the letter sound- or like in
      Jeffie's class reads the word that represents a sound that she gave to the student).
5.  The student with the most sticks wins. Or it can just be r/r and not a competition.
6.  After (or before even) you can lay all of the sticks out and have the students take turns tracking
     underneath and reading the words, phrases, etc.

Here are a few of the pictures: