Learning Sight Words

 

In class, we will work on sight word learning every day through spelling practice, games, and reading the words in context.  In order to master sight words, your child will need your support at home as well.  On Mondays, the children will receive the sight words for the next TWO weeks. If you ever lose your list they will be posted below. Here are some fun activities you can complete with your child at home to help him/her learn and practice sight words:

 

• Make sight word flashcards on index cards and have your child practice reading them over and over.

• Play “Go Fish” with the sight words on index cards (write each word on two cards).

• Word Searches/Sight Word Scavenger Hunt: Find sight words on food boxes or other available print material (magazines, grocery shopping, street signs, etc.)

• Letter Magnets: Have your child use letter magnets to spell the word.

• Memory game: Make duplicates of the sight word cards and play the memory game.

• Bingo: Make 5 x 5 grids and put sight words in the squares. Call out a sight word and have your child find the word on his/her Bingo board; play the same rules as Bingo.

• Write sight words with glitter glue

• Write sight words with “Playdoh”

• Write sight words with shaving cream

• Put craft sand on a paper plate. Have your child practice tracing sight words in the sand.

• Put hair gel in a zip lock baggie, seal the baggie, and have your child write the letters of the sight word in the gel.

• Jump, hop, clap, or tap out the letters of the sight word (t-h-e “the”).

• Read to your child and have your child read to you EVERY NIGHT!!

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