Use the programmed boards or enter your own sight words. Candy Land and Connect 4 are just a few examples of board games that can become high-frequency word games. Write words on the Candy Land cards and have students read them before moving to the color. Use yard sale stickers to add sight words to the Connect 4 chips. Read the words before making a play. Popsicle sticks and a cup are all that is needed to play Zap. First, write a sight word on each stick.
Next, write ZAP on several sticks. Finally, place all of the sticks into the cup. Students take turns pulling out sticks and reading the sight word. If they pull a Zap! Choose the high-frequency words you wish to play with. Write each word on 2 cards. Flip the cards over. To play, students take turns flipping over 2 cards to try and make a match.
High-frequency word games for Kindergarten can be used in the classroom at various times during the school day. After they have been introduced, they would be a great way to ease into school and start the day! These fun sight word practice games would also be a great way to practice and review during your phonics block. They would also work well during word work, guided reading, or sight word literacy centers.
Since your students will feel like they are playing and not learning, they may even want to play them during free-choice time. These 10 sight word activities will engage kids in a multi-sensory approach to learning how to read.
Both parents and teachers will see that fun sight word games are at their fingertips with many of these household items. Write the sight words on Popsicle sticks. Put them in a jar. Pull them out. I used this game often as a reading tutor for kindergarten, first, and second grade. We would play in a small group, but this is also great as a time filler for the whole class. You can build high frequency words on a file cabinet, refrigerator, on a magnetic dry-erase board, or without a magnetic surface.
Simply lay the magnetic letters out on a table to spell the sight words. The kids can pull from a collection of sight word cards , and build the word using the magnetic letters, and write the word. This awesome magnetic letter kit , posted in my classroom must-haves, comes with foam magnetic letters already sorted and labeled. Did you know c hildren who are frequently exposed to nursery rhymes early on, are much more likely to develop strong reading skills? This is why I use nursery rhymes to teach kids how to read.
You can read more on my post about popular nursery rhyme songs for kids. After introducing a new printable nursery rhyme , let the kids hunt through and highlight the sight words you are focusing on.
Playing with a partner, use 2 stacks of sight word cards, each player flips over a card. Whoever reads the sight word first keeps the cards.
Then, they lay 2 facing down, and the third one flipped up. Whoever reads that third one fastest, wins that pile. In the end, the kid with the most card, wins. Write the high frequency words in a dab of shaving cream on the table. Shaving cream writing is excellent for sensory based interventions. Using shaving cream for spelling words and writing sight words are just a few of the shaving cream activities for kids who are kinesthetic learners. You can also make shaving cream playdough and have the kids make the words with that.
Use dry erase markers to write sight words on the side of legos , and place them in a pile. Call out a word, have your child find the lego with that word, and add to the tower. There are endless sight word lego activities for kids. If your child is doing well at recognizing the sight words, but has difficulty spelling them, you can write individual letters on the legos and have them build the word.
For one, it allows them to free up cognitive resources so they can focus on the tougher words that require strong decoding skills. Secondly, knowing sight words is a huge confidence booster for students! Strong sight word knowledge allows them to understand the majority of the text, even when their decoding skills are still developing. While these apps are great, I know not everyone has access to tablets in their classroom, so today I am excited to share a list of 5 Online Games for Sight Word Practice games that can be accessed on a desktop or laptop computer , as well as my own activities that offer a more hands-on approach to learning sight words.
You can find directions to the game here in this YouTube video. The last three games I found come from IXL , a website that offers standards-based personalized learning for students in all subject areas. The site is subscription-based, but they offer a day free trial.
Choose the Matching Sight Words In this game students identify which two sight words are the same. Students can read the words or listen to them read aloud. The game gets progressively harder for kids as they do better.
Spell the Sight Word A more challenging game that has students work to spell sight words they hear read aloud. Complete the Sentence Here students identify the correct sight word to fill in the blank or complete the sentence. Each activity offers a hands-on, engaging way for young learners to develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they are work to read, write, and spell their sight words.
Student engagement is elevated just by giving them a hand lens to search for the hidden words in each seasonal picture! Students must pay close attention to the spelling of the high frequency words as they write them in word shape boxes. Sight word practice is an integral part of reading instruction for our young learners. Feel free to leave a comment and share your favorites below!
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