6+ Fun Ways To Teach Sight Words
1. Puddle Jumping
This one is one of our favorites as we can use it as an indoor or outdoor activity. All you need to do is grab some construction paper in any shade of blue you have on hand (you could even use green paper and call it a lily pad)!
- You’ll start by cutting out puddle shaped pieces. It doesn’t need to be anything strategic. I just use a thick sharpie and drew puddles, wrote down the sight word in the center of the “puddle”, then cut them out!
2. Then, I laminated each puddle and cut off the excess lamination paper around the puddle.
3. Once you have your puddles complete with their words on them, you’re ready to start puddle jumping! Place them on the ground and then you’ll call out words for them to jump onto.
Pro-Tip:
When we first played this, I quickly realized that my son was watching my eye movement to see word I was going to call next……. so it sort of gave it away. What I ended up doing (and what I recommend you do too, because these kids try to outsmart us constantly lol) was creating myself flashcards with every word I had on each puddle. That way I could call out words from my stack, rather than him following my eyes to see what I was looking at. Basically, if he didn’t know the word, he’d use that as a way to guess. Kids are smart man, lol. I gotta give it to him!
Once I made flash cards, it cleared all of that up perfectly!
2. Zingo Sight Words Bingo Game
This is a really fun and interactive way to get your child eager to recognize and learn to read sight words. This Zingo game comes with a little red device that you put the little cards in that have words on them. You simply old the device with little tokens that have sight words listed on them, slide it forward and then two words come out. The goal of the game is to yell out loud the word that you need first and then you can add it to your bingo board. Whoever fills their board fastest, WINS!
3. Dot Sticker Matching
This one takes a small amount of prep time, but it’s a really good way to start incorporating sight words that might be a little more complex.
- Grab a blank piece of printer of paper and write the sight words in random order onto the paper.
- Then, write those exact words onto the dot stickers.
- Your child can then match the sight word stickers onto the paper!
4. Sight Word Fly Swat Game
This one’s a really fun and a silly way to do sight words! On each of the flies there’s a sight word and they’re all organized by color. Each color is based off of the complexity of the sight word. I love that because then you can arrange on a table whichever sight words that you want to include and focus on at the time.
5. ABC Fidget Pop It Sight + CVC Words
For this activity, you’ll want to create (or purchase) flashcards with sight words or CVC words that you want to focus on.
Once you have your stack of flashcards, you’ll supply your child with one of these fidget pop it toys, and then show them one flash card at a time having them pop the spelling of the word while saying it out loud. 
6. Magnetic Letters On A Cookie Sheet
This is a super easy way to use items that you may already have on hand. I personally just use one of our cookie sheets we have for baking.
- As shown in the photo, put a flash card onto the baking pan.
- Then, give them the magnetic letters to spell the sight words.
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