4 Best Sight Words games to Play with Kids

Sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that do not follow the rules of spelling or the six syllable types. Kids have to memorize these words because decoding them is really challenging. In Montessori Torrance, CA preschoolers are taught to memorize sight words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately and read them without decoding them. In most preschools, these words are taught through different games. If you have a toddler at home and you also want to teach him sight words, you can refer to the below-mentioned games.

Sight Words Games for Little learners

Here are some words games for kids that you can easily follow at home and help your little ones learn the sight words.

Hanging Sight Words This game is quite popular and fun to play as in this kids have to jump, and read the words.

How to Play

You need some streamers, markers, tape, and some index cards to play this game. Write down the words on each index card and then tape the card to the streamer. Start from the doorway and work your way around the room. To make it more fun you can tape the cards at different lengths. You can either say the word loudly and your kids have to identify and jump to grab the correct word or you can let them jump and read the word loudly that they grab.

 

1- Opposites Attract

If you play this game with your little one, you can teach them the sight words as well as their opposite words. In Palos Verdes Montessori, mostly first-grade students play this game to learn the sight words.

How to Play


Make flashcards with sight words and make sure each word has an opposite word in your deck. Start placing the cards down one by one. Your kids will need to call out “snap”! when one opposite lands on the other. You can then ask them to read both the words loudly.

2. Flashlight Words

This game is very simple and is best played in the evening.

How to Play

You will need to make sight word flashcards and tape them around your house. After it gets dark, take your little ones on an adventure with a flashlight. Go around the house with your kids and try to find the flashcards with the flashlight. Once the light focuses on a word, your kids have to read that word loudly.

3. Hide and seek Flashcards

This game is very easy and fun to play with kids. To play this game you need sight words flashcards and some pictures that go with the words.

How to Play

Hide the pictures under each of the flashcards and ask your kids to look for them. The only way to find the pictures is to read the word first. Once they read the word correctly, they will be allowed to see or take the picture.

So, what are you waiting for? Choose any of the games mentioned above and start playing with your little ones.

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