Halloween Reading Chain

Remember those chains you used to make during Christmas time each year? Well, I decided to use that idea, but with a bit of a Halloween twist. I decided to create an orange and black chain that I could use to provide my students with some phonics practice. Here is what I did.

First, I had a classroom volunteer cut a bunch of orange and black strips of paper. Then I gave each student two strips. I had them use a black crayon to write words on the orange strips and a white crayon to write on the black strips. The words I had them use were the words from the "ll" word families that we were working on in class. After each student finished writing their two words I stapled the chain together.

Once the chain was done I placed it in our reading area. This allowed students to easily access the chain and practice on their own. I also tried snaking it through tables having students read part of the chain and then keep moving it on. This was fun, but the chain kept getting pulled apart, so probably not such a good idea.

I hope that you like this idea. It was really pretty easy and didn't take much time. The best part about this is that it continues to provide my students with practice time long after completing our phonics lesson.

Another way to use this reading chain is to have students add a link to the chain every time they read a book. It is amazing to see how much students want to read just so that they can add to the chain. 

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