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Top 15 Sight Word Games and Activities

By: Donna..

Learning sight words is an important part of Learning to Read. Sight words are service words. They are not meant to be sounded out. Learning these words helps the reader to maintain reading fluency without getting caught up on meaning.

There are many different high frequency word lists produced over the years. My favorite is the widely used Dolch Sight Word List. It has been used in schools for years and the list is not too long, just 220 words. Make up word cards using the Dolch list , about 4 words per A4 sheet is a good size, laminate them and have some fun playing sight word games and activities. A set of laminated sight word cards is very useful and important addition to your teacher resources.

1. Use grid paper to place sight words on a fixed grid 10 x 10 is a good size. Play battleships as a whole class or work with partners.

2. Play coin toss - words on floor - children take turns to toss a coin onto a word and say that word.

3. During the conferencing or editing stages of children's writing, have a box of mini blank cards available. These are about 10cm x 3 cm. Children use these cards when looking for words on word wall, boxes, on charts, in story books, to write the words on. They then take these smaller versions back to their writing to edit their spelling.

4. Play who am I? - I am yellow, I have 5 letters, and I end in the letter t.

5. Children have a great time playing these types of sight word games. Play twister using a letter chart drawn with chalk on the concrete. Children spell out the sight words using their legs and arms.

6. Smaller versions of the sight words can by photocopied so that children can make their own sight word dictionary or word wall in their scrapbooks. Pop a letter of the alphabet on each page. Glue in the appropriate sight word copies, and add to these pages throughout the year.

7. Play Hangman using the sight words.

8. Children find the sight words in their readers during guided reading sessions.

9. Play dominoes using same end letter / beginning letter. Children love these sorts of hands-on sight word games.

10. Whiteboard pens can be used on the laminated word cards to circle certain letters within the sight words.

11. As a class or in small groups, play the game - Chinese Whispers - one child picks a word card, looks at it and whispers it around the circle. Last person has to find the card with that word on it.

12. Focus on a phonic blend such as 'th' for children to find within the laminated word cards and circle using a whiteboard pen.

13. Children go outside and practice writing their words with chalk on the concrete.

14. Practice handwriting by tracing over words using whiteboard marker on laminated word cards.

15. Order the sight word cards alphabetically.

Sight word cards can be used for so much more than just look and say sessions. Keep a laminated set of words as part of your essential teacher resources. I have used them for impromptu lessons, as well as planned and sight word games have always been a part of my weekly language group planning.

Grab your set of sight words and have fun!

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Donna is a retired early years teacher with a passion for developing hands-on early primary school resources. Check out more of Donna's ideas for sight word games and general hands-on printable teacher resources at her early years Teacher Resources website.

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