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Bottle Cap Word Sort

August 21, 2015 by OneMommy

 

I am always looking for fun ways to work on early reading skills with the kids.  

We love using sight word games as a way to practice not only sight words, but phonics skills as well.  

This week we had fun with several apple themed word games, including DIY word sort games with plastic bottle caps to review letter blends we’ve been working on.

how to make your own word sort activity with bottle caps

 

We used this as one of our apple activities for kids during an apple unit in our homeschooling adventures.  But plastic bottle cap activities like this are simple to make and use any time of year.  

Bottle Cap Word Sort Game

Materials Needed:

  • Plastic Bottle Caps
  • Black Permanent Marker
  • Several Small Containers for Sorting
  • Sticky Notes or Masking Tape

This word sort activity can be modified to fit each child’s individual needs.  

We have been working on the following diagraphs:  “sh,” “ch,” and “th.”  So these are the ones we used for this activity.  

You can choose to use words with any variety of letter combinations your child is working on.  

Use masking tape or sticky notes to label your plastic containers with the letter blends you choose.  Using tape or sticky notes allows you to reuse the containers for other diagraphs later.  

Next, use your permanent marker to write several words with each letter blend on your plastic lids.  Write one word per bottle cap.  

word sort using plastic bottle caps

Have your child sort all the words into the correct containers.  

As they sort the words, have them practice making the sound that each letter blend makes.  So, for “s-h” words, they would say, “shh.”   

Then have them read the whole word as they put the word into the correct container.  

simple word sort game to work on diagraphs and letter blends

 

You could do this to sort words with any letter blends your child is working on.  

I plan on adding to our bottle cap word collection throughout the year as we work on new diagraphs and blends for more word sort games. 

 

Check out how we also used our bottle caps to play this sight word game.

You may also like: 

  • Apple Sight Word Game 
  • Drive to the Sight Word Activity 
  • Using Beads to Work on Spelling Words

Filed Under: Language Arts Tagged With: bottle cap activity, making learning fun, reading game, sight word game

Comments

  1. susen @Dabbling Momma says

    August 22, 2015 at 8:03 am

    LOVE this activity! We haven’t worked on those diagraphs yet but now know a fun way! Glad I’ve been saving so many bottle caps! Pinning!

    • OneMommy says

      August 22, 2015 at 10:22 pm

      So far these 3 are the only blends we’ve worked on, but they have been enjoying this activity and the game I came up with. (I’m sharing that one later this week.)
      Bottle caps are such a great resource!

  2. Emma says

    August 22, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    I’m always looking for fun ways to work on reading words too. I love that this one re-uses bottle caps!

    • OneMommy says

      August 23, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      I am starting to love bottle caps. They are an inexpensive learning tool that we always seem to have on hand.

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