Sight Word Practice

Sight words are words we want students to know by memorizing not by sounding them out. These words are encountered frequently in print.

Only focus on a few at a time and remember that the typical Kindergarten student is expected to gain far more than 25 high-frequency words. This is just the minimum number set forth by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Ideas to use to learn sight words:

• Find them in magazines and cut them out
• Write them in sidewalk chalk
• Spell them with magnetic letters
• Paint them
• Use shaving cream on the side of the bathtub and spell them
• Put them on post-it notes around your house
• Draw sight words on your child's back and then have them guess the word
• Write a book (like our I See books) with different sight words
• Play Memory with the sight words
• Type them on the computer
• Make a power point presentation with words; Students read them as it goes by