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Showing posts with label sight words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sight words. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Sight Word Game

When practicing those sight words- keep it fun! Here's an easy to make game for home. Grab a peice of paper (or use the blank game board I've sent home) right some sight words along a "path" and the borrow a die from a game you already own! Your child can use any small object to move along the path such as a cheerio or penny. Start at the beginning, roll the die, move that many spaces, read the word!
I found this idea (and SOOO many others) on Pinterest. If you aren't on pinterest and would like to be then let me know and I can send you an invite! Click here to view my "Classroom Board" for more fun ideas!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Sight words ("Star words" to us)

**This was taken from Ms. Barker's classroom blog. Thanks for helping us!**

If you have not already begun to work on the Dolch Words with your child, please get started now! (Smiles!) These high-frequency words are useful because:

*As readers learn more, having many words that are quickly recognized helps to move the reading along so that problem solving is not necessary on each word; fluency is supported by a large number of easily recognized words.

*Being able to write a small group of high-frequency words quickly without conscious attention helps young writers produce longer and more meaningful messages; they keep the momentum going because they do not have to slow down to puzzle out every word. 

Here's a link to the 220 Dolch Words (arranged according to frequency): http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch-words-all-freq-printable.pdf

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Letter Games/Ideas!

Write your letters in/use:
Sand
Salt
Shaving cream
With glue (and then cover with glitter!)
Pasta
Dried beans
Playdough
Coins
Parents: call out the letter SOUND and let your child make the letter he/she thinks it is. If it is incorrect try saying, “Hmm if I were to make an ‘h’ I’d make it like this” then demonstrate for your child. They’ll want to fix the mistake without you even asking! You can also demonstrate by writing on a magnadoodle or dry erase board.

Make letter writing fun. Try using every color in your crayon or marker collection. See how many colors you can write “a” in and so on.

Make your own letter bingo game by writing random letters on a 5x5 grid. Make several different boards so your child can play many times. Make corresponding letters on cut out squares that you use to draw from. You draw a card with a letter and call out the letter name or sound and they cover the letter if it is on their board. Then let them call letters or sounds for you!

Make your own letter puzzles. Using a dark colored marker, write a letter very large on a piece of paper. Cut the paper in a simple way (into 4 squares, into 4 strips, etc). Have your child put the letter puzzle together and tell you the name and sound. They can save the puzzle to play again or glue it to a piece of construction paper. Increase the number of times you cut the puzzle to make it harder. Let your child try making a letter puzzle.

“Alphabet Soup” place some magnet letters or paper letters into a pot. Use a spoon or ladle to scoop out a letter and name it. If you get it right it goes in your bowl. If not it goes back in the pot.

www.starfall.com has letter games, stories, and movies for children.
www.pinterest.com has ideas for parents. Try searching “letter games” “kids games” or “learning letters”

“Alphabet Hunt” can be played any where! Call out a sound or letter name and your child hunts for it. This is great for the commissary. “Bobby I need a vegetable that starts with the /g/ sound” and let him bring you a can of green beans! Make it hard by leaving out the vegetable clue. This is wonderful to play with more than one child- make it a competition!

Make your own tongue twister using a certain letter. Aunt Annie ate an alligator! Busy bees buy bread! Silliest one wins!

Keep a running list of words that start with a letter. You could write the letter in dark marker at the top of a page on a notepad. As your child thinks of or finds words that start with the letter help them write it on the letter page. Start out by having them write the first letter and you finish the word (while sounding it out slowly for them to hear) but then, as they improve, have them start writing all the letters they hear and know.

Turn those lists into a letter book! Fold a piece of paper in half (“hamburger style”) and write one word from the list on each page and let your child illustrate it.

Google: “letter games” for a LOT of fun online games. “kindergarten letter games” gets you letter songs, online games, and activities you can do at home.

If you would like to, purchase letter stamps, letter beads, or letter games on Amazon.com The possibilities with stamps and beads are endless!!!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sight Word Help!

A BIG THANK YOU to those of you who are studying those sight word lists I sent home last week. Several children have been BEGGING for quizzes and earning those stickers left and right.

The spelling city website offers games to help learn sight words. This site can also quiz your child on the words. I hope you find this helpful!


http://www.spellingcity.com/dolch-words.html