• Help your child learn their sight words!

      Pencil

      • Create and use flashcards
      • Practice writing words in sand or salt on a paper plate
      • Practice “building” sight words using Legos, bathroom cups, popsicle sticks, and or blocks
      • Play memory with words written on popsicle sticks, index cards, plastic spoons, etc.
      • Practice making words with magnetic letters
      • Write the sight words on index cards and place them all over your house (have your child name them when he/she enters a room, before bedtime, etc.)
      • Save your milk, juice or water bottle caps and write their sight words on the caps
      • Use egg cartons and plastic eggs to match sight words
      • Make sightword puzzles
      • Write the sight words on ping pong balls and play “catch” (i.e. throw me “for”)
      • Put chocolate pudding or paint in a Ziploc bag (seal it tight) and have your child practice making words.
      • Find an old“Twister Game” and instead of playing the game the traditional way, write sightwords on the colored circles and instead of calling out colors, call out sight words.
      • Write sightwords on a variety of objects and allow children to “discover” objects and read words
      • Create a“rock garden”. Collect rocks around your house and write sight words on them
      • Use sidewalk chalk and practice writing the words all over the sidewalk
      • Write sightwords in permanent marker on rubber ducks and practice sight words in the bathtub
      • Use any old games you have lying around (Don’t break the ice, Jenga, CandyLand) and turn them into a sight word game.
      • Practice reading sight words everywhere and anywhere! Practice in the car, look at magazines or newspapers, read cereal boxes, find sight words at the store or in books.
      • Practice writing sight words!

      PRACTICE,PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

      1. did

      2. a 

      3. at

      4. got

      5. it

      6. its

      7. sit

      8. fast

      9. if

      10. off

      11. I

      12. get

      13. let

      14. tell

      15. had

      16. has

      17. his

      18. hot

      19. the

      20. cut

      21. full

      22. us

      23. best

      24. big

      25. but

      26. of

      27. red

      28. an

      29. and

      30. can

      31. in

      32. not

      33. on

      34. ran

      35. run

      36. ten

      37. no

      38. am

      39. him

      40. must

      41. for

      42. help

      43. pull

      44. stop

      45. up

      46. upon

      47. put

      48. seven

      49. into

      50. well

      51. went

      52. will

      53. to 

      54. ask

      55. black

      56. drink

      57. pick

      58. like

      59. jump

      60. just

      61. said

      62. six

      63. yes

      64. you

      65. was