Teaching Sight Words
Learning sight words or high frequency word is a great way to help students develop fluency but sometimes it can be difficult to get beyond simply using flash cards to teach sight words. On this page you will find many great ideas and games to enhance any reading program.
Sight Word Games
Sight Word SafariThis is a free sight word board game from SchoolSparks. Click on the link or on the picture to get to the free download.
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Turtle's Sight Words
This packet includes four file folder games to practice the first 30 words on Fry's Sight Word List.
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Penguin's Sight Words
This packet includes four file folder games to practice words 31-60 on Fry's Sight Word List.
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BingoKinderTastic has a great set of sight word bingo cards. 24 different game boards plus a template so you can choose your own words.
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Paper Cup GameThis idea comes from Look at my happy Rainbow. The idea is to have students take turns reading the sight word on the cup before they stack them. If they can't read the word its the next child's turn. Its a great idea for a literacy center.
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Fun with Glitter
Glue glitter down on the letters of the sight word and have students trace their finders along the word.
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Use shaving cream Source: Uploaded by user via Elly on Pinterest This is always a fun activity. Afterwards the kids have clean desks.
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Bowling for Sight WordsHere is a fun physical activity to get your students motivated to learn sight words. Put post it notes on bowling pins and have students read the sight word before placing the pins back up. For complete game instructions visit the Mon to 2 Posh Lil Divas blog.
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Rainbow Sight Words
You can make writing sight words more fun by allowing students to write their sight word in a rainbow.
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Ghosts vs Vampires - Sight word game
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Peacock sight word file folder game
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Sight Word Worksheets
Numbers, Colors, and Shapes
This download contains the words for numbers 1-12, color words (red, yellow, blue, etc.) and shapes (square, triangle, circle, etc.)
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Includes words 1-75 from Fry's sight word list. (Except for the words "a" and "I")
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Includes words 76-150 from Fry's sight word list.
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This download contains worksheets for the words in the Dolch pre-primer list.
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A set of worksheets for the words from the Dolch Primer word list.
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Worksheets for each of the words in the First grade Dolch word list.
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One breath boxes
How many sight words can you cay in one breath? In this game students discover just that. Origianally developed by Teachertipster.com. I found this one at Swamp frog first graders who adapted it to there own sight word list.
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Sight Word Zoo
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This is a card game that allows your classroom to practice their sight words. To play the game kids take turns drawing cards. If they draw a sight word they must say the word. If they draw an animal card everyone starts to act like that animal until the teacher says, "Zoo keeper." When this is said everyone must freeze until the teacher says back to your cages, when everyone come quietly back to the carpet.
This is a massive download with 10 decks, plus a blank one, that cover the first 300 words on Fry's Sight Word List. This is a perfect game to make sight word flash cards fun!
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Magic Wand Sight Words
Having Students trace their sight words in the air with a magic wand is a great way to make practicing sight words fun. You just need to give students a list of sight words (you can also have them on slips of paper) and a magic wand. You can click on the title to find two other tutorials on how to make your own magic wand.
Colorful magic wands using felt for the ends. Tutorial on the Natural Kids blog.
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Spy Pigs
You've heard of the popular movies Spy Kids, but I but you haven't heard of Spy Pigs. In this game students practice their sight words by helping their spy pig chose a disguise.
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Sight Word Readers
What better way to practice sight words than by reading. On this page you will find six original sight word readers that you can print out for free.
