Sight Words

Here are some practical and helpful ideas on ways to make sight word practice fun for all!

Flash Card Games

Can you find? Lay cards on table, face up. Ask your child to find a given word. If they find it, they keep it. Keep going until all cards are picked up.

Who has more?  Give flash cards to your child. If they read the word within 5 seconds, they keep the card. If not, you keep the card. The goal is that your child has more than you at the end of the game.

Concentration Using double copies of the words, take turns turning over two cards at a time, trying to make a match. The player must read the word correctly to get the match.

Other Activities

Using a highlighter or crayon help your child to find his/her sight words in print (newspaper, magazine etc.)

Read to your child, pointing to the words so that he/she sees the words in books.

Put magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a metal cookie sheet. Let your child make their words.