Time for some activities with sight words and sight words lists so that you get an idea of how you can use them. A few games today and more to follow in the next post. Remember that the sight words are a hugely important part when you are helping to teach your child to read so enjoy using them with your children.

Remember to only play with two or three
unfamiliar words at a time in order to reduce the frustration level!

• Make cards with the sight words on, with two of each word and play Snap. Start with just two or three unfamiliar words and add to them when these are memorised. Remember to say the word out loud when you put the card down.
• With the same cards, play Memo, or Memory game where you place cards upside down so you can’t see them and try to find the pairs of words, saying the words as you turn them over.
• Starfall has a good online sight word memo game here http://www.starfall.com/n/matching/sight-words/load.htm
• Play Hangman using sight words, pointing out how many letters are in the word. You can also look at if it has tall or short letters in it, instead of just drawing a line for each letter, draw a box which needs to be the correct size for the letter (a tall box for l, t, d etc.; a box which descends downwards for g, j etc., a small box for a, c, e etc.)

Remember to pick up a great set of Key Words Flash Cards Here