How to Teach Sight Words in 6 Cool Ways!

Sight words were always my favorite thing to teach when in the public school system.

These words are basically common words that your child doesn’t have to sound out which makes reading a book fluently. Another term that is often used alongside this term is high-frequency words which just simply means that the word appears a lot of times in books. Grab your child’s favorite book on their grade level and underline the word as you read the other words around them. 

With so many different ways to teach these words through songs, dance, and hands on activities. Teaching the sight words to a special needs kid or any child can be very difficult if they first don’t know their alphabet letters and sounds. However, teaching the sight words doesn’t have to be boring at school or home and learning the sight words in these seven cool ways will surly help your child become more engaged and ready to learn.

How to Teach Sight Words

1. Roll a Sight Word

I created this game my first year of teaching when teaching special education and trying to figure out how to get my special needs students to learn sight words in K-3rd grade. This game is called “roll a sight word” and it’s a simple game where students have to take a dice of any size and roll it until it lands on a number 1-6. Whatever number that it lands on say for example number 4 than the student has to say the sight word and than write it in the other boxes three more times. 

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2. Sight Word Playdough

Teaching the sight words to Preschoolers and kindergartens through play-dough is a cool and fun way to get them excited about learning. What I love about this fun activity is not only are they learning the sight words but they’re also building good fine motor skills which are extremally important for a child’s development and learning.

3. Sight Word Painting

Another cool way to learn grade level words is through painting. This is cool because it always a lot of hands on activity that includes painting with different colors. Try having your child paint 3-8 words a day to practice fluency through repetition. Besides, if your child loves painting and getting their hands messy than than this is the activity for you to try at home. 

4. Sight Words Bingo

Another great way to your child to learn the grade level words is through a sight words bingo game. This is great for your child and a group of other friends or just playing as an entire family. Not only will it keep your child engaged but also words on your child’s listening skills when listening and looking at the board at the same time for the answer.

5. Sight Words Wooden Magnetic Fishing Game

Now either you can create your own fishing word game or buy this cool fishing game here. When utilizing this game try the “See it, Say it, Catch it method” which can be done independently while practicing, or play against a partner and whoever see’s the word first after it’s been called out and catch then that person gets to keep the fish until the pool is empty of fish.

6. Learning Resources Pop For Sight Words

I’m a huge popcorn fan when it comes to teaching and praising students for their good efforts. With this game you can increase early literacy skills, improve fluency, and increase vocabulary skills. To play this game you will need 2 to 4 kids to  compete to read and collect the most popcorn pieces.