Sight Words These are all 100 high frequency sight words for first grade! Sight words are words that are in 50% to 80% of everyday conversation and reading. Learning these sight words will help your child feel successful about reading. Your child should be able to automatically (without sounding out) read all 100 by the end of first grade. Please help them practice at home! Scroll down to find great games to play to help them learn these words.        Games to play with your child (using the above list of sight words)! Memory You need: cardstock or colored paper, word lists Requires at least two players Memory involves placing all the cards face down, and then taking turns to turn two over. If they find two that match, they can keep those two cards and have another go. If they do not match, the cards are turned back over and it is someone else's turn. Only use a few words from the list at first, then when they know them well, add a couple more. Continue to slowly build the words up. Snap You need: the cards you made for Memory Requires at least two players Deal the cards out equally between all the players. Each person takes a turn to put a card on a central pile face up so it can be seen. When a card is laid directly on top of a matching card, the first person to put their hand on top of the pile and yell "snap" gets to add the whole pile to the cards in their hand. The aim of the game is to have all the cards. Build it up the same way you do for Memory. Bingo You need: cardboard, marker, counters (buttons, pennies, etc.), word lists Requires at least two players Make up the bingo cards, starting with a few words and then building up. Then, from your list, call out a word. If the child has it they put a counter on it. If not, they don't put a counter on anything. When they have three in a row, they call out bingo. You can use this to teach children all sorts of things. Hangman You need: paper, pen or pencil, word lists Requires at least two players Choose a word the child has already been working with. Make enough lines across a page for each letter in the word to have a line. The child starts guessing what the word is letter by letter. Any letter they call out correct, write it on its correct place on the line. Any letter wrong, write it above the "man" and begin to draw a hangman. If the child gets the word before the hangman is completed, they win, but only if the man is drawn first. Make sure the child can tell you the word at the end. Please let us know if you have any other great ideas to add to this list! |