Sight words are an important part of learning to read. Why is that? Like I’ve said before, just the first 100 words on Fry’s High Frequency list make up about 50% of what you read. Now, that’s a lot of words! To do a little sight word review at the end of the school year, my Kindergartner and I played a game called Sight Word BLACKOUT. {You can find the FREE download at the END of this post.}
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Sight Word Blackout
This school year, we’ve shared several Blackout games, including CVC Rhyming Blackout, Word Family Blackout, and CVCe Blackout. So naturally, Sight Word Blackout was a must! 🙂
Included in the FREE pack are 30+ Sight Word Blackout game boards; there are 30 pre-made and 1 blank one that you could fill in yourself.
There are 48 high frequency word cards selected from the Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer list as well as the first 40 word on Fry’s word list {google either one of those terms and can find those lists}. Also included is a page with blank word cards that you can fill in to make your own game, so there’s lots of potential here!
To prepare the game, print your game boards and sight word cards onto cardstock. You can even laminate them if you’d like. Select the markers you’d like to use to cover the board. We used our transparent counters, but math cubes, dry erase marker {if it’s been laminated} will work as well as just pennies, buttons or dried beans. Use whatever you have on-hand that is simple enough to pull out and go!
Playing Sight Word Blackout is easy! It works for 1 child up to 30. Shuffle all the word cards and place them in a pile facing down. The adult {or students can take turns} draws the top sight word card, reads it aloud,
and everyone looks for that word on their board. Not all 48 words are on every board. If he finds it, he covers it with a marker.
The first person to cover his entire board {blackout} is the winner of the game. If you don’t want to make it competitive, don’t. Maybe you could time the game to see how long it takes for everyone to get Blackout. Players could even help each other instead of competing. This game is totally flexible!
More Sight Word Fun & Articles
- Sight Word Guess Who?
- Roll & Write Sight Words
- Zingo! Sight Words {read our review}
- Paint, Write & Tally Sight Words
- LEGO Handwriting Mats {with sight words}
- Stamping Sight Words
- Sight Words: When they Just Don’t “Stick”
- Phonics or Sight Words? Which is it?
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>>Download Sight Word Blackout HERE.<<
~Becky
Adorable! TYVM for sharing this! My daughter has Down syndrome and needs lots of practice that is not tied to handwriting or another fine motor skill. This is much cuter than anything I would have created!!
You’re welcome for sharing. I’m so glad it’s something you can use with your daughter!
Your website and products are real blessings.
Thank you. That means so much!!
Thanks so much for this! I was just getting tired of the same old games to practice the kiddos sight words. This will be a fun change of pace. Thanks! 🙂
Yay! So glad to hear it’s a good fit for your kids!
Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome! 🙂