Helping my friend teach her (going into 1st grade) son his sight words. Because they say he has to go to summer school and he's totally miserable and every morning is a struggle- they said if he can learn his sight words he wont have to finish the month.
So here are some games we play for anyone who needs some ideas. I think workbook and drills are boring so I try to play lots of learning games with the kids.
* Bingo .... First I write the words on 3x5 cards and hide them around the house...we have a treasure hunt because it gets them interested really quick....then they choose the words and put them on a paper making their own bingo card...... We use popcorn as markers because these are words that 'pop' up in all the books we read..... then it's bingo like regular..I say the word and they have to find it on their game board.....When they have every space marked they yell...'Popcorn words' and they win!
* Use chalk to mark boxes - you can use hop scotch pattern or whatever - and write one sight word in each box. Play music and when you stop the music say a sight word and they have to get on it quick. Another variety is without music and say - Hop to the word 'said' -- crawl to the word 'what' -- pat your head and spin around to the word 'I'. Lets those fidgety kids learn while they move.
* Word Ladder : Build a ladder on a poster board and use 3x5 cards with your words. The goal is to get to the top of the ladder (of course) There are 10 or 15 words and they can get 2 wrong but on the 3rd one they lose. If they lose you might say- I bet those words wont trick you again; like most of us the challenge is the motivation.
* Concentration (Memory) and Go Fish are also Great games to learn sight words!!
* I'm also having the kids make 'books'. They make a sentence using the word and I write it for them except for the sight word they write. Then they illustrate a picture to go with their sentence. 'Of' was particularly hard to come up with a sentence for them. it was kind of funny.
* I didn't know if he was a kinestetic learner so I glued the word and had the kids place beads, popcorn or pom poms over the glue in the shape of the word. When it's dry they will trace them and say the words. They automatically created patterns with the material ...bead.popcorn.pompom..bead.popcorn.etc..... AND that's part of words..patterns
* It seems to me that learning sight words in context would make a lot of sense....SO I read them stories and held my finger under the words; occasionally I was stop and they would say the word I was pointing to.
* The last day we played 'Mother May I" and if they got the word wrong they had to go back. They loved all the games.
No comments:
Post a Comment