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Other Ways to Practice These Sight Words
Flash Card Games
Making the Words
Technology
Other Activities
- Can you find? Lay cards on table, face up. Ask the student to find a given word. If they find it, they keep it. Keep going until all cards are picked up.
- Who has more? Flash cards to student. If they read the word within 5 seconds, they keep the card. If not, you keep the card. The goal is that the child has more than you at the end of the game.
- Concentration: Using double copies of the words, take turns turning over two cards at a time, trying to make a match. The player must read the word correctly to get the match.
- Go Fish: Using double copies of the words, pass out all but 5-6 of the words. Put these in a stack, face down, on the table. Look for matches in your set of cards (each player must be able to read the word or the set goes in the stack on the table). Take turns asking each other for cards to make matches. The person with the most matches at the end is the winner.
- Bingo: Draw a simple Bingo card (5 boxes wide and 5 high) and put sight words in the boxes. You may need to repeat words to have 25 words. On little slips of paper put the locations (B1 etc.). Draw a slip and if the child can read the word in the box they get to put a token in the corresponding box on their BINGO card. If he can’t read it, you get to put a token in your corresponding box. The winner is the person who gets 5 boxes in a row.
Making the Words
- Magnetic Letters: Have your child spell the word using magnetic letters, then say the word as they run their finger under the word. Mixed up the letters and have the child make the word again. Run finger under the word and say it again. Repeat several times.
- Imaginary Chalkboard: Students pretend that they are writing on a large chalkboard. As they say each letter, they "write" it as large as they can. After each word is spelled, students say the word as they "underline" it. You can change this and have them write it as small as they can.
- Blast-Off: Children start spelling the word while squatting. With each successive letter they stand higher and higher. When the word is said in its entirety, the children jump into the air.
- Write words with a stick in the sand outside.
- Put shaving cream on a table and let your child write the words with their fingers.
- Lumber Jack: Students pretend to swing an axe as they chant each letter. Then they pretend that the tree is falling down as they shout out the word, rather than "TIM-BER!"
Technology
- If you have access to an iPad or iPhone, there are some fun sight word apps available.
- Search online for sight word games to play with your child.
- Make a word search with the sight words your child is working on. (Do a search for free word search maker.)
Other Activities
- Using a highlighter or crayon help your child find their sight words in print (newspaper, magazine, etc.).
- Read to your child, pointing to the sight words words so that they see the words in books.