Trash or Treasure??

Here is a great literacy station idea from Julie Lee....

Have students get a trash ball, un-wad it, and read it to decide if it's a real word or a made up word. 

Variation: Write sight words on the crumpled sheets of paper. Spell some of them correctly and some of them incorrectly. Students get a trash ball, un-wad it and decide if the sight word is spelled correctly or incorrectly.