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Fun ways to practice sight words at home: 

 

  1. Make flash cards.
  2. Make concentration/memory game (make a double set of flash cards and lay them out upside down. Take turns flipping over 2 at a time to try to find a match. When someone finds a match, they go again.).
  3. Write words on a window or door with washable markers.
  4. Write words on driveway using sidewalk chalk.
  5. Make a simple race car track on large paper. Divide the track into blocks and write a sight word in each block. Using small toy cars as game pieces, roll dice and move your car that many spaces. Read the word you land on. The first person around the track wins.
  6. Artsy Words:  Practice making the words with popsicle sticks, dry beans, pasta, Play-Doh, stickers, string cerial or other manipulative.
  7. Make a Bingo board and play bingo. Use your flash cards to pick a word at random.
  8. Have a sight word treasure hunt. Hide the sight word flash card around a small area. Have your child search for the card and read the words as they find them.
  9. Hide a sticker or other flat item under face up flash cards. Have your child try to guess which word the sticker/item is under.
  10. Write words using saving cream on bathtub or shower wall.  Spread out some shaving cream on the shower wall.  Use your finger to write the words in the shaving cream.
  11. Use Scrabble tiles or magnetic letters to spell the sight words.
  12. Write a word on your parents back with your finger.  Have them try to guess the letters/word.  Then switch rolls.
  13. Make a hopscotch game on the driveway using sidewalk chalk.  Instead of numbering each box, write a sight word in each box.
  14. Magic Words - Write your sight words with white crayon on white paper.  Then go over the words with a washable marker.  
  15. Sight Word Exercises: Stand up and spell each sight word while looking at it.  When you say a tall letter (l, t, b…) strech up high. When you say a short letter (a, n, r, s…) squat.  When you say a low letter (g, j, y…) touch your toes. After you spell the word, jump like a starfish and say the word.  Have Fun! 
  16. Rainbow Words:  Write your sight words very large with one color crayon.  Then go over top all the words again with 2 more colors.
  17. Toss and Read:  Lay out flashcards face down on the floor. Toss a small object such as a coin, Lego, or beanbag and have your child identify the word.
  18. Cross the Bridge:  Lay out flashcards on the floor from one side of the room to another. Your child must say the word to step on it and cross the bridge.
  19. Race the Clock:  Set a timer for one minute. See how many sight words can be read in one minute.
  20. Jump:  Spread sight word cards throughout the room. Say a word. Your child finds it and jumps on it.
  21. True or False:  Place a line of tape on the floor and name one true and the other false. Hold up a sight word and read it correctly or incorrectly. Your child jumps to the true side if correct and the false side if incorrect.
  22. Twister Reading:  Lay flashcards on the ground. Call out a sight word and either right hand, left hand, left foot, or right foot. Your child needs to move their hand or foot to the correct sight word until they can't stand any more.