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5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN

May 26, 2015 By 3 Comments

We all know that children learn best with practice and repetition, most of us cover this in our daily planning and delivery.  However, planning activities that are fun and hands on can be more difficult.

I have come up with 5 fun ways to learn sight words that are also hands-on.

I have teamed up with Jennifer from Simply Kinder and Emily from Education to the Core to bring you a whole bunch of sight word activities.

5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN
I love creating resources that are a bit different and require an element of interaction, movement and fun.  You can view the interactive/hands-on resources in my store.

1. I love collecting and using inexpensive props for hands-on literacy activities.

Bottle tops and ping pong balls fall in to this category! There are so many things you can do with both bottle tops and ping-pong balls.

5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN

1. Use ping pong balls or bottle top lids to create fun, hands-on sight word centers.

Ask staff and students to bring in clean bottle tops.  You could hold a table competition to see who brings in the most tops.  Collect them in a container and write on the top of each lid with a permanent marker.

You can use any word list for the 5 activities mentioned below.

5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Egg Carton Shake read Write
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Hockey Word Challenge
I have created a whole bunch of bottle top activities with record sheets and instruction cards, all of which can be used with any word list.
Bottle Cap Center Games for any Word List BUNDLE
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Count Toss and Record
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Blow your Lid
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Woggle

Find more of these games in our Bottle Top Games bundle.

2.

I Spy Sight Words Reading Activity with a FREEBIE

Collect and laminate old newspapers, magazine pages, menus, instruction guides, junk mail, flyers, birthday cards, food packaging and school notes.

Keep them all in a container with magnifying glasses (I found mine at the Dollar Store). If you don’t have magnifying glasses, children can pretend to be detectives with magnifying glasses.

Now you’re ready to go on a word hunt!

Children record the word they find on their hunt, on their record sheets.  Click here to download your free record sheets.

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3.  There aren’t that many free sight word apps that are good, but here are some quality ones that I found.  Click on the individual links below to go to The App Store for each app.

5 Sight Word Activities Free Sight Word Apps plus YouTube video links

Click on the individual pictures below to download the app (you will need to be on your mobile device, if not pin the image and come back to it later).

5 Sight Word Activities: Free Sight Word Apps

Here are some of the app pictures.  I have tried to include as many images of inside the applications as possible.

Click on the image to go to The App Store.

Sight Words: Kids Learn
5 sight word activities including a bunch of free apps
Sight Words Flash Cards - list of sightwords for kids in preschool, kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade with questions Free Sight Word Apps
Sight Word Apps  Free Sight Word apps Princesses Learn Sight Words
Star Speller: Kids Learn Sight Words Games (English)

YouTube is a treasure trove of educational resources.  I have been making playlists up, which I hope to grow.  I have made up two playlists for sight words.

5 Sight Word Activities: Sight Word Playlist on YouTube

Click here for Dolch sight word videos. 

Click here for óther’ sight word videos. 

4. I love creating hands-on resources to share here, on my blog and also in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

I know that children learn best through play, experimentation and when they are making neuro pathways through positive experiences.  These resources aim to make children laugh and engage them as active learners.

Here are a few of my new interactive resources.

5 Sight Word Activities: Interactive printables and hands-on resources
GROWING BUNDLE Interactive Sight Word Printables: Fluency and Word Work – The activities are suitable for centers, morning work, guided reading groups, Daily 5.
Children interact with the pages in a hands-on fun way!
GROWING BUNDLE Interactive Sight Word Printables
GROWING BUNDLE Interactive Sight Word Printables
GROWING BUNDLE Interactive Sight Word Printables
Sight Word Fluency Fun Growing Bundle: Includes three sets for each set of Dolch words (Pre-Primer to Grade Two), meaning the words are differentiated.
Interactive Word Spots for any Word List {Editable}
Your reading and word work centers just got a whole lot more fun!
Edit this file or laminate and write on the spots, to include your own list.
Interactive Word Spots for any Word List {Editable}
Interactive Word Spots for any Word List {Editable}
5 Sight Word Activities: Interactive printables and hands-on resources
Interactive Reading Sticks – Read it and do it {for any word list}
These fun, hands-on cards are just the thing to get your students involved and having fun while learning. Use the cards as reading sticks by placing them in a container or tin, as seen in the images.
Children complete the action while they read the word, see the last image above for the explanation page.
Interactive Reading Sticks - Read it and do it {for any word list}
Interactive Reading Sticks - Read it and do it {for any word list}

 Interactive Reading Sticks for any Word List

Having a fun, hands-on, interactive way to learn new words can help with learning and revising words.

 Interactive Reading Sticks for any Word List
5.
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN
Integrate art whilst learning sight words.
Squish and Seek Sight Words from Playdough to Plato.
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN Squish and Seek Sight Words
Teaching Everyday shows how you can use paper towel to write words.
5 Sight Word Activities that are Fun: Paper Towel Writing
Oh my Words from our Printables for any Word List.
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Printables
Fruit Loop Words from A Spoonful of Learning.
5 Sight Word Activities that are FUN: Fruit Loop Words
I hope all of these activities come in super handy with your young readers.
For even more sight word ideas, drop by Education to the Core and Simply Kinder, to see even more ways your students can learn sight words.
5 ways to Practice Sight Words from Education to the Core
Sight Words in Three Steps from Simply Kinder
If you are looking for more sight word ideas you might also like our Sight Words Pinterest board.
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  1. Andrea Knight says

    May 26, 2015 at 3:49 am

    There are so many great ideas here, Emma! Thank you for sharing them! 🙂

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  2. Lorri Shannon says

    June 13, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    First year Kindergarten teacher starting in the fall, spending my summer getting ready. Thank you so much for this!

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  3. OneMommy says

    August 17, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Absolutely love this list of fun ways to work on sight words!
    I can't wait to try some with my kids this school year.

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