Sight words account for up to 75% of the words used in early reading materials. Many of these words do not follow the basic phonics principles - they cannot be ‘sounded out’. Therefore, it’s important that kids from an early age learn these words by sight.
Learning the Dolch List of Basic Sight Words and Fry’s Instant Sight Words using Flash cards and worksheets becomes tedious quite fast – especially for young kids. How about trying one of these games instead?
Wordo
This game is played like Bingo, but instead of numbers you will be using sight words. You’ll need to make some bingo cards. Go to our sight words flash cards pages:
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Pick the grade or selection of words you’d like to practice. Print out each set. Then cut along the straight lines. Get a piece of paper and glue on the selection of words in a grid on the paper. You’ll need to print out the set several times for enough Wordo cards to go around.
Memory
Instead of matching pictures, you’ll be creating pairs of matching words. Print out two sets of your chosen selection of flashcards from our Dolch and Fry Sight words pages. Cut out the words along the lines. Match up the pairs of words.
Now jumble them up, turn them upside down and put them face down in a square grid on a table. Now it’s time to play. The first player turn two cards face up – make sure everyone gets to see what it says on the two cards. Turn them face down.
The next player turns up one card – if it matches one of the previous cards, this player needs to remember where that card was. If he or she selects the right card, there's a match.
Word Searches
Create word searches featuring sight words, or better yet - use one of ours:
Dolch Sight Words - Word Searches
Fry Sight Words – Word Searches
Go Fish
Go Fish cards can be made from index cards. Just write each word on two cards, shuffle them and play. Or you can print out our Flash cards on thicker paper and cut out the cards along the black lines.
