Activities to Help Your
Child Practice and Learn Sight Words
Sight Word
Activities:
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Have your child write sight
words with glitter glue, wikki stix, playdoh, and puffy paint
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Put craft sand or rice on a
paper plate. Have your child practice tracing sight words.
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Put hair gel in a zip lock
baggie. Seal the baggie. Have your child write the letters of the sight word in
the gel.
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Squirt shaving cream on a
plate or table. Spread the cream. Have your child write the sight words in the
shaving cream.
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Jump, hop, clap, tap out the
letters of the sight word (t-h-e “the”).
Sight word games:
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Make sight word flashcards on
3 x 5 index cards and place them on a ring. Short and frequent practice with
naming the words works better than longer sessions. Try reviewing the cards
during commercial breaks.
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Draw a star on the back of a 3
x 5 index card. Place this card and the flash-cards face down on the table.
Take turns turning over a card and reading the words. Try to be the player who
finds the card with a star.
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Play “Slap Jack” with the
sight word and star cards. When the star card is turned over, the first player
to slap it wins.
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Make duplicates of the sight
word cards and play the memory game.
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Write the sight words on
sticky notes and place them on a wall. Turn down the lights and give your child
a flashlight. ave your child shine the light on the words and read them out
loud.
