I have been reading the Daily 5 and Cafe books this summer. Here are the ideas I have been collecting for Word Work.
You can go to my Pinterest http://pinterest.com/steph_cook/language-arts/ or see below
http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-favorite-pins-of-day.html
Light Bright Words
http://fairydustteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/peek-into-my-classroom.html
http://mrsfrankefirstgrade.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/word-work/
http://www.kidscount1234.com/literacy.html
wiki sticks
http://kathygriffinteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/teachers-often-ask-which-songmultimedia.html
http://www.makeandtakes.com/learning-letters-with-pipe-cleaners
http://mrsbremersk.blogspot.com/2012/04/spin-word-freebie-more-literacy-work.html
Put words here instead.
http://www.pre-kpages.com/spring-race-to-the-top-game/
Light Bright Words
http://fairydustteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/peek-into-my-classroom.html
http://mrsfrankefirstgrade.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/word-work/
http://www.kidscount1234.com/literacy.html
wiki sticks
http://kathygriffinteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/teachers-often-ask-which-songmultimedia.html
http://www.makeandtakes.com/learning-letters-with-pipe-cleaners
http://mrsbremersk.blogspot.com/2012/04/spin-word-freebie-more-literacy-work.html
Put words here instead.
http://www.pre-kpages.com/spring-race-to-the-top-game/
I made these before with rice and our words for the week.
The tennis coach saved the tennis ball cans for us to use.
Play dough words
Use the cups for ABC order.
I thought fishing for words would be fun.
magnet letters
Rotate the cups to make different words
Play dough words with cookie cutters
Play dough words stamped
scrabble words
I thought you could put words here.
Maybe stamp the short a words red and the long a words blue, etc
Watercolor the words
Use clear cups with letters. Can be stacked to make words.
These cards are a freebie on this site
I will try to give credit where it is due. Please let me know if I need to add credit to anyone of these.