Saturday 5 October 2013

Early Reading with Sight Word Fun

My nephew, who is 6 years old, has just started A grade at a school which offers an intensive English class. He was struggling to learn his sight words so I offered to help by... playing!!!
The results were immediate and amazingly positive.
So far we have written the words on two sets of cards (red and blue)
We use the cards for various reading games, such as:

  1. Match the pairs
  2. Memory
  3. Bingo
  4. Tic-Tac-Toe
  5. Hide and Seek
  6. Race to success (board game with dice and race cars as pawns)
  7. Parking Lot (BIG card with parking spaces. Race cars park on the right word)
  8. BANG (Cards in a container.Pick a card.Read it. Keep it. When you get a BANG card you have to put all the cards back. Can be played with one or two players and it teaches you to lose and have fun)
  9. Make a sentence that makes sense
  10. Make a silly sentence
  11. Fishing game (I use a toy fishing rod and laminated word cards with fish shapes, treasure chest shape etc and put them in a basin filled with water SOOO MUCH FUN!!!)
AND
   12.  Be a word detective (Look for a word that begins with.... or look for this....word in a page)
   13.  WHITE BOARD (write or erase the word I 'm saying)
   14.  Magnetic Letters (arrange them to make a word)
   15.  Play doh letters (use dough to make letters and words, then bake and eat them)

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