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Secret Sight Word Game

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250-Summertime Sight Word Review Games - This Reading Mama

I’ve had a lot of new faces joining This Reading Mama lately.  Welcome!  I’m so glad you’re here!

This is week three of the simple sight word games I’m posting each Monday for the summer.  (Click on the image above or here for weeks 1 and 2.)

As a classroom teacher and now as a homeschooling mama, I am always looking for ways to help sight words “stick”.  Learning words is developmental in nature.  Many times, words that are visually the same give beginning readers trouble.  Take for instance this, that, the, them, they, then, & than.  In context, a beginning learner may have more luck.  But out of context, telling the difference can be rather confusing.

That’s where this SECRET SIGHT WORD game comes into play.  It’s so simple; yet SO effective at getting young readers to focus their attention on these tricky words.

Materials:

  • Dry erase board/marker or pencil/paper
  • Sight word cards (you can download some for FREE here)

How to Play:

1. Pull out a set of visually similar words that your child has had during the school year.

visually similar sight wordsWe used several w words.

2. Talk about the words.  What makes them tricky?  How are they the same?  What are some ways they are different?  (ALuv noticed the number of letters in each word and sorted them.  See below.)

sorting sight words

3. Pick one secret word and draw blanks for the word.

guess my sight word, game

4.  Ask your child to guess letters to figure out the word.  (Before guessing any letters, ALuv weeded out words simply based on the number of letters.)

sorting sight words, game

5.  Fill in the letter blanks as appropriate.  Once the child thinks he knows the word, have him say it and write it.

writing visually similar sight words

6. If the child wants to take a turn as the “teacher”-Yay!

secret sight word game(Secret Word: water)

Of course, this game can be played with any set of sight words.  That’s what makes it so wonderfully flexible!

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~Becky

 

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Comments

  1. Malia {Playdough to Plato} says

    June 25, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    I love this!! So simple and fun. Pinning it.

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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