Study Sight Words

Simple Ideas to Help Your Child Learn Sight Words

Sight words are words that cannot be learned through pictures or by stretching out their sounds. They appear frequently in all books. It is important for your child learn these words and become automatic in identifying them. Here are some fun ways to expose your child to the words:

1. Write the words on index cards to create flashcards.

2. If you carry a purse or a bag, place a set of words inside of it. When you have to wait in line or sitting in a restaurant, take the cards out and review them.

3. Write the words your child needs to learn on sticky notes. Stick them anywhere your child goes. You can stick them on the wall near their bed to review before going to sleep and waking up, in the bathroom to review during bathroom, on the wall near the dinner table, etc.

4. Take words your child is having difficulty with and place them on the car seat back in front of your child. As you are driving, your child will be staring right at the words. You can ask him/her to read them to you.

5. Buy some soap crayons or foam letters and write the words in the bathtub.

6. Lay the words flat on the floor in a little path. Have your child read each word as they hop to or step on it to follow the path. If you have stairs at home, put a word on each step.

7. Make two sets of word cards and play Memory or Go Fish.

8. Lay 3-5 cards facing up so that your child can see them. Play rhyming games such as "I am thinking of a word that rhymes with me, but it begins with /w/" (we)

9. Play "What's Missing?" Lay 3-4 words on the table and have your child read the words and then close his/her eyes. Remove one of the word. Ask your child to open their eyes and identify the word that was missing. Then take a turn closing your eyes!

10. Hang up two sight words and race your child across the room to read the sight word in “your lane”.

11. Go on a Sight Word Scavenger Hunt by hiding the flashcards around the house.

12. Play Sight Word War – each player turns over a sight word and whoever reads the sight word first wins both cards.

13. Make a Bingo board with the sight words. Play Bingo.

14. Create a word search puzzle on www.puzzlemaker.com

15. Make a Tic Tac Toe board. Play Tic Tac Toe using words instead of x and o

16. Flashlight words – tape the words up on the ceiling and turn off the lights. Use the flashlight to read the words.

17. Make the words using play-dough.