Read words before heading through the door Dot-paint words with a cotton swabīusy day at the sight word office! Use a keyboard cover or any old keyboard. Write words in white crayon and reveal them with watercolors on top! Shhh! Discover words written in invisible ink Or, write words on the window!Įveryone wants a turn to write on the window! That eraser track makes for a perfect word card holder! Build words in a sensory tubīecause spelling is just more fun when your hands are covered in beans! This one is easy to modify based on whatever toys are available in the classroom or at home. Spell words on a construction siteīulldozing over each word to read it is the best part! Such a great use of extra building bricks!Įasy-peasy to set up and keep neat if you use plastic pencil boxes. Find words in the morning messageĭon’t forget about old standbys! This is one of our favorite ways to get kids to recognize sight words in connected text.
Just add a magnifying glass and clipboard to make kids feel like super sleuths! Give kids a checklist of words to find as they open each egg. Stock up on batteries because kids never get tired of this! If you need a refresher on the rules, teacher Jillian Starr covers them. This classroom classic is perfect for sight words. Read all the words as you try to find the cup that hides the prize. Source: Search for the pom-pom under sight word cups Get sight words stuck in everyone’s head, in a good way. Fun in person or virtually!įun to make and fun for play! Great for learning sight words outdoors.
Wear your word proudly and practice reading others’ words. So easy: Fill a zip-top bag with a small amount of paint, seal well, and have kids practice “writing” sight words with their finger or a cotton swab. “My Mom said to wear a helmet!” = so good! Have kids stick words on items that give them ideas for sentences. Use sticky notes to inspire sight word sentences
This is one of many fun ways to use magnetic tiles for learning! Kids love “knocking down” word tiles with a toy car as they read each one. Loud but oh-so-fun! Feel the rhythm while tapping and reading sight words stuck to homemade percussion instruments. Kids can race around hunting for balls to read and toss in a basket or hunt through a big tub of balls for a certain word. Write sight words on ball pit balls with a chalk marker or dry erase marker. Kids love using the paintbrush for “discovering” each word card. Serve up sight word pancakes while practicing spelling them aloud! Find a word in an array and WHACK-swat it with a fly swatter. Find and swat wordsĪn oldie but such a goodie. So what to do when “the” sounds like “th-uh” but is spelled t-h-e? Practice, practice, practice, of course! Check out this mega-list of low-prep, multi-sensory, and FUN sight word activities for kids to use in the classroom or at home. While we always want kids thinking about letter-sound correspondence in words, many high-frequency words break common phonetic rules. There’s no doubt about it: Building a strong bank of sight words helps readers read and write more fluently and accurately.