Top 30 Fun Ways to Teach Sight Words
Posted on June 5, 2008
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.
I like the Dolch Sight Word List, but their are many other lists available. I like to pop them onto cards about 12cm x 6cm.
Use these cards to have some fun, fun, fun learning sight words with 30 FUN WAYS TO TEACH SIGHT WORDS.....
Don't Forget to Have Fun...
1. Play Battleships with sight words on a grid with a partner or as a class.
2. Play coin toss - words on floor - children take turns to toss a coin onto a word and say that word.
3. Have a box of small blank mini cards or paper you can purchase great sized post it notes these days (approx 10cm x 2 cm) on hand at all times so that children can write down words from word walls, charts etc and then take the card back to their writing. It is also handy to write words on when doing writing conferences.
4. Play who am I? for example, I am yellow, I have 5 letters, and I end in ___.
5. Make a letter twister chart with chalk on a concrete floor, children place their feet and hands on the letters to spell words.
6. Around the World Sight Words - flash a word - first player to say word out of that pair moves on to the next person to make a pair and another word is flashed, etc, etc.
7. Play Hangman using the word card words.
8. How quickly can you find a certain sight word in individual reading books during small group reading.
9. Play dominoes using same end letter/ beginning letter.
10. Circle letters within words using white board marker on laminated sight words cards.
11. Play Chinese Whispers - say a word - pass it around.
12. Circle smaller words within words using white board marker on laminated word cards.
13. Children go outside and practice writing their words with chalk on the concrete.
14. Practice handwriting by tracing over words using white board marker on laminated sight word cards.
15. Place sight word cards in alphabetical order.
16. Flashlight words turn off lights flash a torch on words on display for look and say.
17. Children make their own word wall/dictionary using photocopied small sight words and scrapbooks labeled with a letter of the alphabet on each page... can be added to throughout the year.
18. Play tic tac toe, here I go, where I stop I do not know - children say the word that you stop on.
19. Cloze - children find the missing word within a sentence.
20. Play musical words - children pass words around in a circle until music stops - that child says the word - can be played with 1 or more words.
21. Go on a word walk / drive - find words around the environment - signs etc.
22. Make words using play dough.
23. Make words using string gluing.
24. Make words using letter tiles -scrabble pieces.
25. Make words using stencils.
26. Make words using alphabet stamps.
27. Make words using magnetic letters.
28. Play stepping stones - place words on the floor and children walk over them saying the word as they go to get to the other side of the stream.
29. Beat the clock - how many times can a word be written in 1 minute etc.
30. Children write their words in list form and then write over the words 2 or more times using different colours to create rainbow words.
There are so many way you can make teaching and learning sight words fun - I am sure you can think of more as well.
For more Fun Sight Word Activities and to Download the Dolch Sight Word List, visit us at http://www.K-3TeacherResources.com
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