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Sight word tic tac toe. If you are a teacher, you’ll likely find something cool on Tumblr. Tons of lesson plans and center ideas like this one are shared all the time.

kelseyannie:

Lesson inspired by this one!

For my third center, I created a tic-tac-toe board by taping together nine Ziploc sandwich bags. I wrote sight words on 4x6 notecards and placed them inside the bags. I cut out Xs and Os using the die cut machine.

Because I had three students, I chose to have…

(Source: seekelslearn)

If you work with younger children under the age of 5, you will want to look deeper into this research that shows that words mean less to children than adults when trying to categorize things. ““In the past, we thought that if we name the things for children, the labels will do the rest: children would infer that the two things that have the same name are alike in some way or that they go together,” he said. “We can’t assume that anymore. We really need to do more than just label things.”