All of my sight word games are editable which means that you can fit them to your needs. Rather than printing off several lists for your students, you can print off just the sight words that you need. Games that are editable are wonderful for you as a teacher. Let me show you how sight word games keep my students engaged, and why yours will love them too! #1: They are editable I decided to create editable sight word games so that teachers can have a way to make a game with sight words and help their students stay focused. Reading off the same sight word list week after week can get pretty boring. Teachers and students alike love when learning is fun. Sight words can be a difficult task for your students to learn so that is why I created engaging sight word games. When it is done correctly your students are going to thrive and have no idea Know, I know…there are a lot of people who will say that this is not aĭevelopmentally appropriate skill for students who are 5-6 years old however One of my favorite lessons for Transitional Kindergarten as I am eager to share my ideas with you and want to give a big thank you to Sweet For Kindergarten for letting me guest blog! Teaching Sight Words in Kindergarten using Engaging Sight Word Games Early Education is where I have spent my entire 10 year teaching career and it is my passion. If the student has mastered all of the words on that list, they get their sight word certificate and a sight word bracelet! If they are still having trouble, I look at the checklist and determine if they know enough of the words to move on, or if they need to keep practicing the words on the previous list.Hello friends, my name is Erin Custer and I blog over at Classrooms and Cats! I have been a Transitional Kindergarten teacher for 7 years and I am all about helping other teachers find fun and engaging ways to help their students learn. On days that I finish teaching a particular list, I do the sight word checklist. (On Fridays I like to pass out Skittles, M&M’s, or Dojo points for a sight word spelled correctly!) Thursday: Play a sight word board game or a printable sight word gameįriday: Have students use dry erase markers to practice writing the new words and any words previously learned. Wednesday: Play a memory or matching game with only the words learned so far (I like to use sensory bins here!) Tuesday: I ntroduce word 2 and repeat steps from Monday Monday: I ntroduce word 1, talk about the letters in the word, how to say it, spell it, and identify it with a foldable book they can take home to their parents to show them the new word. Here’s a little snapshot of what it looks like:Ģ sight words per week, introduced in small groups during literacy centers, starting with List 1 I created 7 lists, of 9 kindergarten sight words each, and made it a schedule for the week, which helps the students and parents tremendously since they know what to expect. If they still need time to learn letters and sounds, I’d focus on that first!) (I would make sure your students have a good understanding of letter identification before moving on to sight words. I started by choosing the words I wanted to use and ordering them from the least difficult to the most difficult, while still making sure they were appropriate for kindergarten. After seeing how much my students improved, I wanted to share it with all the other struggling kindergarten teachers out there! Let’s get to it! I Googled so many sight word lists and ideas and finally created a system that worked for me and my class. (hello first year teacher problems!)įast forward to my third year of teaching, I knew I had to fix something. Every time I gave a sight word assessment, I panicked because I had no clue if I was “doing it right”. We didn’t really have a way to “teach” the students sight words, it was just a list of words my kids were expected to know by the end of the year. When I first started teaching kindergarten, I remember sight words were a beast I was not ready to tackle.
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