Working with word families is an effective way to get kids reading and help them learn to decode longer words.

I mount these circular spinners to tag board or run them on tag board. I bought plastic spinners at a teacher store in the game pieces section, and attached them to the tagboard. The spinners come in 2 pieces and just snap together. They actually work very well and spin easily. I have also used these with a paper clip and pencil!

I put a different spinner out every month or so, as the children learn new word families. They love to spin spinners and love to make lots of new words at the word work station at Daily 5.

These spinners were made to go with the Rigby Reading series, however, they can be used with any reading series or none at all.

If you have any questions or would like me to modify the spinner for your class, please contact Hilary Lewis at hilary35@mac.com 

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