Head Chair: Idea #239

Are your students competitive? If so, you should try playing the game Head Chair found on this website. It is an excellent way to practice sight words. Just follow these simple instructions:

1. PREPARATION: Make or buy some sight word flash cards that are at your students' reading level.

2.  Get some chairs and form them in a line facing you (the teacher/parent). Make a sign for the chair in the front of the line that says Head Chair.

3. TO PLAY: Have all students sit in a chair in the line. Teacher/Parent shows the student in the Head Chair a sight word flash card. The student does not leave the seat until he/she misses a word.

4. Once a student misses a word, the student goes to the end chair, allowing the rest of the children to move up one seat.

5. The purpose of the game is to see which student ends up in the Head Chair.

Your students will love this competitive, but fun game!