This is your list of sight word activities!

My Kindergartener came home with his first list of sight words, and my job was to help him remember them. We are going to need some sight word activities to get started!

The good news?

Teaching Kindergarten and First Grade is my jam. I have lots of ideas to practice sight words that are low prep and lots of fun. You’ve come to the right corner of the web.

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What is a sight word?

Simply put, most sight words are learned by repetition.
Sight words do not always follow a phonetic rule.
Words are practiced again and again to help keep the early reader moving along, recognizing commonly used words in print.

Keep in mind memorizing words is different from sounding words out phonetically. Read more about how to help your child with word families.

When helping our children with sight words, we must keep hearing letter sounds, watching our lips when saying letter sounds, and recognizing common letter patterns as a top priority.

LEARN MORE: There are Dolch and Fry sight words. Learn how these sight words compare in this post by ThoughtCo.

What activities can you do with sight words?

We are here to make learning sight words more fun.

Sure, we can practice with traditional notecards, but why not spice things up and learn through play?

We know that children remember what they do, see, and touch. Slide over the worksheets, and let’s learn through movement to engage the brain.

RELATED: Need fun ideas for your BIG KIDS? Check out our BIG KID activity cards!

Making sight words and saying them aloud will help the words stick.

Here, my son uses his magnetic letterbox to add the words written on the painter’s tape. I write the words on the tape before he comes home from school, and we play this game to review the sight words.

We have a magnetic wall, but you don’t have to. Instead, try playing this sight word activity on the back of a baking sheet pan. Fun fact, most baking sheets are magnetic!!

Get started!

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