

Math Words:Give your students a sheet that gives each letter a number.Count the Syllables: How many syllables are in each word? Count them with students.The one who finds the most is the winner! Tell them to find as many of that sight word as they can. How many can you find: Set a timer, give each student a book and a sight word.For these learners, you have to get creative. They learn with numbers, and anything that has math with it. Point and Sing: Students can point at each sight word and sing it several times.Sight Word Raps: These can be found on Youtube and make it easy for little readers to sing along and memorize their words.If you notice some of your little readers really enjoy music, here are some ways to teach your sight words: They can put a beat to anything so to speak. The Auditory learner learns best through sound and music. Word Shape Worksheets: This is where each sight word fits into its own shape – students visualize the shape of the word.You can find various sight word videos on Youtube, but my favorites are from Have Fun Teaching and Dolch Sight Word Videos. The great thing about sight word videos are the fun songs that go along with them. Sight Word Videos: Kids are addicted to screens, so anything you put on a screen, kids are going to love.Some great ways to help your visual learners are: The visual learner learns best through pictures, images, and spatial understanding.


This is a great way to pair off the class, while kids have a little more independence. Sight Word Tic Tac Toe: My kids always loved this game.This is a great way to get little readers up and moving as they learn. As little readers hop through, they must say each word as their feet land. Make 2-hopscotch designs on the blacktop, put one sight word in each square. Sight Word Hopscotch:Let’s bring hopscotch back in a relay sight word game.This is a great way for kids to identify sight words, right them, and read them to family members at home. Let kids name their rocks with sight words by painting their pet’s name on him/her. Make Sight Word Rocks: Who wants a rock pet?! Rock pets are great for parents and kids, but they, also, make a great way to get kids to learn their sight words.Sight Word Twister: Write sight words on a twister board and have students move their feet or hands to the coordinating sight word and color circle.You can also see the Sight Word Fluency Mini-books here. There are so many tactile ways to experience sight-words on just one piece of paper. Sight Word Mini-books – These are by far my favorite sight word activity.You can give clues or even make it into a “write the room” experience. Put sight words around the room our house and have kids search for them. Use play sand and have students write sight words in the sand.Build with the sight words: Write letters on Lego bricks and have students build sight words.Play Sight Word Football-Score a Touchdown when you know your sight words.Play Zingo or Bingo – Kids love to play Bingo…instead of using numbers, use sight words.Play Swat!– All kids love to use fly swatters… Now you can use them to swat at sight words!.Write the sight words in shaving cream (I used to do this in my classrooms to help me clean the desks).Write sight words with playdoh -use Playdoh to shape each word.Tap the Words: Have littles readers use their fingers for each letter as you spell the word aloud.Jumping Jack Sight Words: Using jumping jacks to spell each sight word (1 jump for each letter).Create a word with your body: Give each group of students one sight word that they must create using only their body.Here are some ways to get those kids out of their seats or actively moving while learning the sight words… The Kinesthetic learners also known as the physical learners learns best through using their body, hands, and senses. Today we will explore many different hands on sight word activities for kindergarten or preschool and beyond! Today we will explore these hands on sight word activities in the context of each learning type. When learning sight words, merely doing sight word flash cards gets boring not only to the teacher, but to the little reader. There are so many fun ways that you can teach sight words.
