Sight Word Practice

Hello TK Families!
We will be working on sight words at school throughout most of the year in TK. We will be doing monthly sight words for the months of September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and May. You can help your child master these words by working on them together at home. Our goal is for children to be able to read the words when they see them. Here are some ideas for how you could practice these words together at home:

• Point them out in books you are reading together. Pick one or two words at a time to see if your child can find them in the book while you are reading.
• Write them in shaving cream! Have your child say the letters while writing them and then say the word.
• Build them with pipe cleaners! Your child can spell and read them while building each word.
• Make them out of playdough
• Write them outside with chalk
• Write them in sand, salt, or sugar
• Stamp them
• Write the sight words on pieces of paper and tape them around the room/house. Call out a word and have your child run & touch that word.
• Write the sight words on pieces of paper and hide them around the room/house. Have your child search for the words and read them when he finds them.
• Go on a scavenger hunt for sight words! See if your child can find each word somewhere in the house or in a book.
• Rainbow writing - write the sight words in different colors. First, write it in red. Then, write on top of that word in orange. See how many colors you can use!
• Paper Plate Toss - Write the words on paper plates. Use them like frisbees to throw after reading the word. You could also add in a target to throw them at.
• Flashlight Words - Tape the words to the wall or ceiling and turn off the lights. Have your child use a flashlight to find the words and read them.
• Go Fish - Make 2 sets of sight word cards and pay Go Fish
• Write them using stencils
• Stepping Stones - Place the words on the floor to form a path. Have your child step on them to cross the stream. Your child should read each one as he steps on it.
• Build them with Wiki Sticks
• Tic-Tac-Toe - Write the words on a tic-tac-toe board. Take turns reading them. If read correctly, place an X or O in the box until someone wins.
• Make them with Scrabble tiles
• Word-O - Played just like BINGO. Fill in the spaces with the sight words. Call out the words and mark the spaces.
• Spell them with magnetic letters
• Search for the words in a newspaper or magazine and highlight them
• Word Jump - Write the sight words in chalk outside. Call out a word. Have your child jump to the word.
• Write them with finger paint
• SNAP - Write sight words on flash cards or popsicle sticks. Put the words into a jar. Also, you write the word SNAP on a few flash cards and put them in to the jar. The kids can play in partners or in a groups of 3 or 4 with siblings. They take turns pulling a card out of the jar. If they can say the word on the card automatically with no struggle, they get to keep the card. If they struggle, they have to put it back. If they pull out one of the cards that says SNAP, they have to put all of the card they’ve drawn back. The first person to 5 cards (or 10) wins! 
• Write them with sticks in the sand or dirt
• Stair Chase -  Place two sight word cards on each stair. Let them pick one sight word on the way up, saying the word an
• Build them with popsicle sticks
• Coin Toss - Put words on the floor. Children take turns tossing a coin onto a word and saying the word. If they read the word correctly, they keep the coin. The first person to collect a designated amount of money is the winner.
• Beat the Clock - See how many times your child can write a word in one minute. Or see how many flash cards your child can read in one minute.
• Memory - Create two sets of word cards. Place the word cards face down. Have your child turn over two cards, trying to make a match. Continue until all of the words are matched. 
• Who Has More? Flash word cards to your child. If they read the word within 10 seconds, they get to keep the card. If not, you keep the card. If the child has more cards than you at the end, they win. (You can modify the time based on your child's ability. Try to shorten it as your child becomes more familiar with the words.)
• Who Am I? - Lay out the word cards. Then give the child clues to what the selected word is. For example, if the word was “red,” you could say – I rhyme with bed. I have three letters. I end with the letter D. Have the child locate the word.
• Word of the Day - Tape one or two words written on an index card next to the front door, as EVERYONE in the family leaves or enters the house…..ask them to touch the word and yell it out.
• Eat the Words - Write this month's sight words in whipped cream or frosting, eat one word treat a day (after reading it of course).
• Spell them with alphabet shaped pasta
• Bath Time - Write words in the bath tub with bath crayons
• Note of the Day - Each day write your child a short note (1-3 sentences).  Include the words they are practicing.  Ask them to circle those words in crayon
• Use alphabet cookie cutters and playdough to spell out words
• Put letters onto a set of legos and build the words
• Catch - Use a sharpie to write each word from your child's current set on different parts of a beach ball.  Toss the ball back and forth, yelling out the words that face up each time.
• Roll the Die - Create a set of die (large size) with a word on each face.  Roll and read.

​Have fun! :)