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Sight Word Activities

Pirate Sight Word Games – Brain Power Boy 

Arghh!! Put a pirate twist to sight words!

How to Teach Sight Words – Sight and Sound Reading

Want to teach sight words but not sure where to start? Start here!

Free Blend Puzzles – 3 Dinosaurs

Learn blends with these free puzzles!

Sight Words or Phonics? – Sight and Sound Reading

Get some insight on the sight words versus phonics debate from a reading teacher’s perspective.

Preschool Letter Activities – Letter E – Learning2Walk

Learning2Walk offers activities for each letter of the alphabet! Here are activities for the letter E.

New CVC Word Family Play Dough – 3 Dinosaurs

Practice CVC words with this play dough craft!

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Sight Word Fortune Tellers

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How to Make a Paper Fortune Teller

With some simple folds, you can make a fortune teller and then put your child’s sight words in them for practice.

First you’ll need a square piece of paper.  Fold it in half and then fold it in half again so that you have a square.  Now unfold it.  You are creating creases for line guides and so that it bends right when you put your fingers in it.

Then fold one corner to the opposite corner to make a triangle.  Unfold it again and do the same with the other corners.  Next, unfold it so you have your original square with a bunch of creases in it.

Now to the read folding; fold the corners into the center crease.  Turn your paper over and do the same thing again, folding the corners into the center crease.

Finally fold the whole square in half and stick your pointer fingers and thumbs in the side that has an opening.

To make it a sight word fortune teller, we use words that combine to make a sentence.  You could also use letters for beginning readers.  The words on the outside of our fortune teller are When, What, Which, and Then.  Sometimes Audrey has trouble with the “W” sound so I made sure she got extra practice.

The next place to write words is when you look down into the fortune teller.  We put different animals.

Finally, you’ll need to open the inside flaps to write one more word or phrase.  We put different verbs.  You could also put letters or numbers in them depending on the abilities of your child.

How to Play

Have your child read one of the words on the outside of your fortune teller.  Then move your fingers to the spelling of the word.  So, for example, if your child read the word “What”, you would move your fingers 4 times saying a letter each time you moved.

On the last move you reveal four of the words that are written down on the inside.  Have your child pick another word to read.  Let’s say Audrey picked “gorilla”.  You do the same thing you did with the first word moving your fingers for each letter in the word spelling it out loud.

Finally your child picks one side that you reveal on the last move and you open that side to reveal the final word in your sentence.  Let’s say it was “skipped”.  Then you would ask your child what their secret sentence was.  In our example, we got “What gorilla skipped?”

You can add a phrase at the end to make it really silly and motivate your child to do the game over and over to reveal all the silly sentences, plus get some extra reading practice in.

If you’ve never played with a fortune teller before or are having trouble following my directions, here is a little video of Audrey and I playing the game!

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Not only does this activity help her practice sight words, it creates a beautiful piece of art that we like to display.  Then when she passes by, I’ll have her say a word or 2.  It really makes them stick!

Painting Secret Messages

No doubt you’ve seen this technique before.  It’s just crayon resist art, but Audrey thought it was magic when I told her there were secret words all over the paper.

If your child is at the right angle, like my little Emma was, they can see all the letters and it’s not as special for them.  So make sure you get down to their level and check to see if the secret words are being revealed by the light.

To do the activity, pick your child’s sight or reading words and write them all over the paper in white crayon.  Do this ahead of time without telling them and it will be an even bigger surprise.  Then have your child paint over the paper with water colors, trying to find the words.  If it is a surprise, just have them paint normally and the words will start showing up.

You could incorporate a theme into the painting too.  For example, since it is going to be Valentine’s Day soon I could use Valentine themed words and have Audrey paint hearts.  You could even print off a themed coloring sheet and put write the words right into the picture.  It would be fun to do one of these paintings for each holiday.  I just love 2-for-1 activities (craft & learning).  Don’t you?

Don’t forget that review is so important!  So, display the painting in a prominent place and have your child practice reading the “secret messages”.  It really improves reading skills, but also boosts your child’s confidence and inspires a love for creating and trying new things.

I just love hearing my daughters race to Daddy and pull him to show off their creations and practice reading their words for him.

How do you get your child to practice reading their sight words?

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