Sight word activities?

As part of our daily circle, we have two sentences on sentence strip paper with a blank space in each sentence. "The weather outside is (blank)." and "Today is (blank)." For the first sentence, the child who is our meteorologist for the week tells the group what the weather is. They choose from little symbol cards with the words sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, stormy. The symbols go on the Weather Graph. Then the child will find the appropriate word on a small piece of sentence strip to place in the sentence (adhesive velcro bits hold the word on the sentence on the board), and uses a pointer to read the sentence to the group. Then another child who is the teacher helper for the week leads in the days of the week song and find the appropriate word to add to the sentence Today is (blank). Using the pointer, the helper reads the sentence to the group. Then I ask the 5 year olds and some of the fours to come up one at a time and find the words I ask for on the board (weather, today, the, is, and of course the days of the week). I use the dry erase board to write, or have one of the children write, the day of the week, the month, date, and year, maybe a color word, or sometimes a simple sentence such as I am a girl (or boy). This is all a daily part of circle, and the children are doing great with it. They often pick these words out when they see them in a book, and they write them in their journals as they write very simple sentences. These words are available on the word wall (with a rebus picture whenever possible like with color words) and we refer the children to the word wall whenever we hear a question like How do I write 'red'? The words are attached to the word wall with velcro so they can take them to the table with them when they want to write. (We use lots of velcro!)

Another idea is to make a memory card game with a limited set of sight words for the children to use with adult support. As they turn the cards over, help them "read" them to see if they match.

Another game they enjoy is to give them little cards with short words on them to try to put together in a sentence, like little puzzles. They might say "I am Katie." Of course they think it's a riot if their name is Johnny, and then they have to look around to see who has the correct name so their sentence will be right! Oh! Haven't done it this way, but wouldn't it be fun to have three kids hold up cards, each with a word on it, to make a 3 word sentence, and have the rest of the group read the words and tell the kids with the cards where to stand so the sentence makes sense. I'm gonna have to try that one!

Write out the words on strip paper. Cut the letters out, and then have the kids go hide in the classroom with the letters in different spots, like hide and go seek, and the rest of the class has to hide there eyes so the cannot see where the students with the letters are hidden, and then you call them out for example the word "Cat" You as the teacher would day "C" where are you, are you hiding behind the teachers desk, and you have the class participate in calling out the letters in the words until you have found them all in order and spell them out.

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Very useful program!

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Have a tray of items and ask them to pick out anything that starts with a c etc...

Go around classroom and point out three things that start with b....

? any good?