Sight Word Help!!

Oh, the joy of teaching sight words.  They can be so hard to teach and boring, but they don't have to be.  I've been creating some fun new ways to learn sight words for the students that I'm tutoring this summer.  I'm all about sharing ideas, so here ya go!  If you have awesome ideas, please share!

1.  Twenty Ways to Practice Sight Words
My students love the game, "Swat the word."  Buy a new fly swatter and write the sight words on paper.  When you say a word aloud, they have to hurry and swat it before someone else.

2.  Think about your child's interests and make a game. 
Here's a baseball game that I made for one of my students that I'm tutoring.  Print the sight words on the back of the baseball cards.  When they get a home run card, they get to pick three cards.  Every card they get right, they get to keep.  If they get a strike card, they have to put all of the cards back in the pile.  Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game wins.  **If you would like this file so you can change the words and add more, let me know and I can email it to you.

3. Create your own sight word worksheets.

4.  BUY THIS AMAZING BOOK!!!
Seriously, just buy it now.  My students loved doing these as a center. 

The Best Sight Word Book Ever!

  5.  Create you own BINGO game.

 6.  Buy games.

Sight Word Puzzles

Sled Spinout! Sight Words Challenge Game-Level 1
 

7.  Buy flash cards with pictures.  I remember studying in college that flash cards *typically* work better with girls and not boys.  However, these flash cards are different!!  They have pictures!  You can even create an action for each word too. 

I ordered these cards here.  You get 220 Dolch sight words for $25!!  The back of these cards have the word and sentence to match the picture.  I bought these because they are soo much cheaper.  I just color them with colored pencils.

Are you drooling over these cards like I did?  You can get them here.  You can buy 59 cards for $23.95 or you can buy 306 words for $133.95. Ouch!  That's a lot!  My husband said, "No way." 

You can also make your own.  I made these for one of my tutoring students. I made it in Publisher because I wanted to keep it.  You could just draw pictures your own picture.  I started it, but didn't finish the last two words.  It takes forever!!  That's why I liked just buying the pre-made ones.

Good luck teaching sight words!