Make a little fishing rod with a magnet on the end. The object of the game is to be able to throw an object on each patty case. The child must read the word of the patty case that the object landed on. Have your child throw a small object into the tin. Put all the patty cases in the muffin tin. The player that has all the sight words on their card crossed off first is the winner. Make bingo cards with all the sight words and get your child to either read out the words for the family to play bingo or have a bingo card and mark off the words that are said. They must read them before they stick them on. The child needs to find all their sight words and stick them on the sight word clipboard. Write all the sight words on post it notes and stick them around your house or backyard. Your child can ride their bike, scooter or ride on car in each spot. Using chalk draw up some large car spots with sight words written in each. You could also do this on a larger scale if you have room outside. Write a sight word in each car spot and get the child to read it before they park their car in it. Make a mini car park for your child to park their toy cars in. The child must read each word before they put it down. Get your child to start matching the domino cards together. Ensure that you use each sight word a couple of times. Write two sight words on the card one at each end. If they pick two different words, they need to turn them back over and try to remember where each word is.Ĭut paper or cardboard into rectangles and draw a line across the halfway mark. If they pick the same word they can keep the pair. The child turns over two cards and reads the sight word on each. After all sight words are written, mix them up and turn them over so you can not see them. Not only do they give your child an opportunity to learn their sight words but they also are fun and engaging learning activities.Ĭut up cardboard or paper into rectangles and write each sight word on two of them. There are so many quick games that the child could play independently, with a sibling or a parent which gives the child a meaningful learning environment to learn their sight words successfully.īelow is a list of 20 sight word games that can be played at home and at school. Unfortunately most parents get the child to just read the words on the sight words list given and believe that this will enable the child to learn their words. Sight word practice is commonly set as a homework task. It needs to mean something to the child in order for them to store the information in their brain. Learning in context is the best way that children learn anything. Children learn these words in context in a classroom. Teachers use sight words in all literacy activities in the classroom. The first 100 sight words are listed in the following table: In order to be a successful reader in the early years of Primary School, children need to have a good recollection of high frequency sight words. Children need to learn these words by sight as it is very difficult to use sound knowledge to work out these words. Sight words are the frequently used words that come up in beginner reading books. When children begin Primary School they are usually given a list of sight words to learn each week. this blog I focus on how educators and parents can use games in their home and classroom to help children learn sight words successfully. Welcome to my second blog in the series “Literacy in the Primary Classroom”.
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