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Sight Word BLACKOUT – for Beginning Sight Words

By thisreadingmama 11 Comments

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.}

Sight Word Blackout Game {FREE} - This Reading Mama

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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.

Sight Word Blackout word cards - 48 plus blank ones

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!

 

Sight Word Blackout Supplies

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!

 

drawing and reading a Sight Word Blackout word card

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,

covering words on Sight Word Blackout board

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.

 

Sight Word Blackout winner

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?

Follow This Reading Mama’s board Sight Words on Pinterest.

 

>>Download Sight Word Blackout HERE.<<

 

FREE Sight Word Blackout Game - This Reading Mama

 

~Becky

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Comments

  1. Amy L says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:02 am

    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!!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 31, 2015 at 3:13 pm

      You’re welcome for sharing. I’m so glad it’s something you can use with your daughter!

      Reply
  2. Phelicia says

    May 31, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    Your website and products are real blessings.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 31, 2015 at 5:36 pm

      Thank you. That means so much!!

      Reply
  3. Catherine says

    December 3, 2015 at 12:15 am

    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! 🙂

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      December 3, 2015 at 8:23 pm

      Yay! So glad to hear it’s a good fit for your kids!

      Reply
  4. Jennifer Baillo says

    July 8, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      July 9, 2017 at 7:37 am

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Tiffany Banks says

    May 5, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    Thanks for this great site word activity. I am trying to create the blank board for my students, but when I try to type in the document, it says that it is password protected. Am I not able to edit the blank page? Thanks!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 6, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      I think that was created before I knew how to make editable pages. Those have to be printed off and written on. When the time comes to update this file, I’ll work on making them editable.

      Reply

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