It sounds ridiculous, but kids love flipping things over! This is also a great activity for building both fine and gross motor skills. Challenge your child to use the spatula to flip over the circles or “pancakes.” Each time your child flips over a pancake, he or she must read the sight word. Place the circles face down on a table or other playing surface. Amazon boxes work great for this! Write a sight word on each circle. How to Play: Cut small circles out of cardboard. Materials: cardboard circles, marker, spatula Again, this is a super simple game, but one that kids enjoy. I turn the lights out and he shines his flashlight on each step as he moves from the first floor to the second. My son also likes this game when we line the flashcards up on the staircase. Have your child shine a flashlight on each word. Tape your child’s flashcards to a wall or ceiling. How to Play: This one works well after dark. Play continues until one player has all of the cards or until the parent says, “This game takes forever, you win!” Flashlight Game If a player can read his or her word and has the higher number, he or she gets both cards. In this version, players must read their sight words out loud. At the same time, players take a card from the top of their stacks and place the cards across from each other. How to Play: This game plays like traditional War with one sight word twist. Tip: Use numbers that your child recognizes and understands the value. Materials: flashcards with numbers written underneath the words. Another house rule, if a player cannot read the words on the cards, the cards go back into play. In our house, if a player gets a match, he or she may take another turn. Once a player finds a match, he or she may keep the cards. Players take turns flipping over two cards to find a match. Spread the flashcards out on a table or flat playing surface. How to Play: This is a classic that kids still love to play. That’s it! My son was so entertained by this game one afternoon that he practiced his sight words for over 30 minutes! Memory The game ends once your child finds all of the pictures. Your child should then try to find the pictures by reading each word and then looking under the card. Hide the small pictures under the flashcards. Have your child cover his eyes or leave the room. How to Play: Place all of the flash cards face up on a flat playing surface. At the same time, they made reading a dreaded chore. By the end of first grade, I could fly through the pack of sight words and could even tell the different between they’re, there, and their. As my mom flipped through the cards and I struggled with remembering the difference between where and were and was and saw, I longed to be doing anything else. I remember dreading these 15 minutes more than having my yearly finger prick at the pediatrician’s office. My dutiful and caring mother made flashcards, set the kitchen timer for 15 minutes, and drilled me on my sight words every night after dinner. At back-to-school night, my teacher informed our parents that all first graders would be responsible for memorizing their sight words, those high frequency words that do not always follow the rules of phonics. Tick, tick, tick, I can still hear the sound of the kitchen timer counting down the minutes while I memorized my first grade sight words. Read Across America Day is her favorite holiday! When she is not in the classroom, Katherine enjoys building wooden train layouts with her three-year-old son, playing board games while drinking IPA’s with her husband, and taking part in pub trivia. Katherine Willoughby lives is Richmond, Virginia and teaches Junior Kindergarten at the same school where she discovered her love of reading.
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