50 Playful Sight Words Activity Ideas
Immy is well and truly on the road to learning to read, arriving home from school with her very first levelled reader last week!
As I have shared previously, learning to automatically recognise high frequency sight words is an important part of learning to read as automatic recall positively influences reading fluency, which in turn aids clearer comprehension – you can read more about the importance of sight words to reading in this post – What Are Sight Words?
Providing lots of opportunity for children to revisit sight words is important to the development of automatic recall but this repetition doesn’t have to be boring, in fact the 50 sight word activity ideas included in the list below are most definitely not boring!
But before we get to the list, if your child loves playing games or learns best through fun and engaging activities (and don’t we all), please take a moment to check out our printable, no prep sight word games pack. Great for home revision, classroom literacy groups or withing learning support settings.
50 Playful Sight Words Activity Ideas
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Thanks for this fantastic collection of site word games and activities. I will have to work my way through these with my almost 5 year old.
What an incredible resource! Thank you 🙂
Wow what an amazing list! And I like the idea of scrabble tiles, lots of fun!
I have been searching on pinterest for ideas to work on sight words with my students. However, this is the first time I’ve come across such quality ideas in one place. Thank you for taking the time to compile this list. It will serve as an outstanding resource in the months ahead. Thank you!
Wow, what a great resource! Thank you for including Growing Book by Book’s muffin tin sight word game in the list. I’ll be sharing this link!
Very clever ideas. Thank you for sharing! Hopefully we’ll be in the next list *crosses fingers*
argh sight words! I used to really dread them when I was teaching. This is a crazy number of fun activities though 🙂 Jack is not really interested in learning to read too much yet, which is fine, he can do c-v-c put that’s it at the moment. I wasn’t looking forward to introducing sight words but these look fun 🙂 I even love the scrabble 🙂
Gosh I’ll need to start thinking about this type of thing soon and this is a good place to start! These ideas look far more fun than the boring old ipad (not to mention better value!). Great list.
Wow pinning to use many times in the future!!
A great collection of ideas! Thanks for sharing out Sight Word Pizza Box!
Oh my, this is one of those post you have to bookmark. So many activities to explore. Love the, Christie!
Also, I wanted to say thank you for your wonderful words of wisdom at PB con. I really appreciated our chat xx
What an awesome collection Christie. Pinned xoxo P
Thanks for putting all these awesome resources in one handy spot. Pinning 🙂
Great list! Sight words are so important, aren’t they? In our house, we had a word of the day along with a short sentence on the whiteboard in the kitchen which worked well for us. I think it’s important to put them in context sometimes to help with the spelling of them later.
I’ll always have one activity that focuses on sight words in class. I shared some on my posts about literacy centres awhile back but will be giving some of these a try next. Thanks for sharing 🙂
What a wonderful collection! It’s these types of posts that make things a lot easier for me to introduce fun and educational activities in the home because I don’t have a teaching background or many creative bones in my body! Thank you.
What a handy collection. Pinned 🙂
Wow, what a fantastic round up! I will be using these ideas, Bubble is bringing home new sigh words every week and I’m running low on ideas for practicing them! Thank you for including our links, honoured as always to be included here.
Such a great collection Christie…thankyou! Always need ideas for this area, have pinned for future reference!
Great round up!
So many fab ideas here. I’ve pinned the post 🙂
So many great ideas here! Thanks for including our Sight Word Gems. Just shared onto our Sight Word Pinterest Board and Twitter. http://www.pinterest.com/educatorsspinon/sight-word-and-word-family-activities/ Make sure you share this post on our After School Link Party this week too! So many fun ways to play with words!
Such amazing list of great ways to work on sight words! Definitely pinning!
I love these ideas! My husband and I are firm believers in you can’t just send them to scho and expect them to excell….we have always worked with our son Lucas (6 years old) using books, workbooks etc… he excelled in pre K. He is always ready for the next thing! We started using the sight word caterpillar the summer before kindergarten he knew 50+ sight words on his first day!!! It was a great tool for us!! I will brag a little on him now…he it top reader in his class his last WPM was 92! He is also doing 3rd grade math!! And in his Awanas he had his 1st sparkies workbook & extra credit book completely memorized!! He worked on it & we always encouraged, praised, worked with him & provided fun learning aid & ideas!! So thanks for these ideas!!! We love getting creative ways to nurture our boy!
LOVE your ideas! Thanks for sharing. Here is a game I play with my own children and Kindergarten students that encourages word-building: http://wp.me/p4qsZ9-fs
Thanks again 🙂
Such a great selection of ideas.
Thanks, Katrina 🙂
Great list, I will be adding many of these to our at home practice. One that we recently had success with was using washable markers and instead of writing on paper writing on our legs! Bonus of this activity also resulted in a bath 🙂
Great idea, Kara, my daughter would love that 🙂
Hey 🙂
I lovr these ideas. They are very similar to some of the activities I use for at home practice with sight words. Check it out!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Choice-Board-1561981?utm_campaign=TransactionalEmails&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email
Pinned this great resource to use in my classroom. When I came to the end of the article I laughed to see the author’s name was my name!
Some wonderful ideas here! Thanks for putting this list together and can’t wait to try some of these out on my pre-schooler.
Thanks for the great list! My husband and I built a free Dolch Sight Words app for iOS & Android. It includes translations (currently Spanish and Arabic, with more coming!), and it is really fun and interactive to use. We’d love for you to check it out! See my blog link for more info & links to download for free.
Thank you so much!!!! Amazingly fun and creative ideas. I am having a ball teaching my students sight words.It takes something very monotonous into exciting activities. This is an incredible resource.
Those are fantistic tips and games for kids! I’m an ESL teaching in China, and I try out the COFFEE CUP GAME, and the kids LOVE it !!!!