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Sight Word/Ball Word Lists
Below are 4 lists of the kindergarten sight words. Baseball words will be graded in quarter 1. Soccer words will be graded in quarter 2. Basketball words will be graded in quarter 3. Last, Football words will be graded in quarter 4. I will be teaching these words in school, however, please practice these words EVERY NIGHT at home too
(making flashcards, rainbow writing etc.).
Listed beneath the words lists are some games/activities to help make learning fun. In order to receive credit for a word, it must be read on sight within a 3 second time span with no sounding out. Thank you for helping in your child's education.
Fun ways to practice sight words at home:
- Make flash cards.
- Make concentration/memory game (make a double set of flash cards and lay them out upside down. Take turns flipping over 2 at a time to try to find a match. When someone finds a match, they go again.).
- Write words on a window or door with washable markers.
- Write words on driveway using sidewalk chalk.
- Make a simple race car track on large paper. Divide the track into blocks and write a sight word in each block. Using small toy cars as game pieces, roll dice and move your car that many spaces. Read the word you land on. The first person around the track wins.
- Practice making the words with popsicle sticks, dry beans, noodles or other manipulative.
- Make a Bingo board and play bingo. Use your flash cards to pick a word at random.
- Have a sight word treasure hunt. Hide the sight word flash card around a small area. Have your child search for the card and read the words as they find them.
- Hide a sticker or other flat item under face up flash cards. Have your child try to guess which word the sticker/item is under.
- Write words using saving cream on bathtub or shower wall. Spread out some shaving cream on the shower wall. Use your finger to write the words in the shaving cream.
- Use Scrabble tiles to spell the sight words.
- Write a word on your parents back with your finger. Have them try to guess the word. Then switch rolls.
- Make a hopscotch game on the driveway using sidewalk chalk. Instead of numbering each box, write a sight word in each box.
- Magic Words - Write your sight words with white crayon on white paper. Then go over the words with a washable marker.
- Sight Word Exercises: Stand up and spell each sight word while looking at it. When you say a tall letter (l, t, b…) stretch up high. When you say a short letter (a, n, r, s…) squat. When you say a low letter (g, j, y…) touch your toes. After you spell the word, jump like a starfish and say the word. Have Fun!
- Magic Words - Write your sight words with white crayon on white paper. Then go over the words with a washable marker.
- Rainbow Words: Write your sight words very large with one color crayon. Then go over top all the words again with 2 more colors.