Sight Word Games

materials for sight word slap

Boom!

This summer I have been hired to tutor a first grade boy. I am out of my element here! I have been scouring pinterest looking for activities to assist me in finding activities to do with him to make sure reading doesn't become a chore to him. So far, I found a link to the game Boom. Then while walking the aisles of the Dollar General in search of resources, I passed some super-nifty ladybug shaped fly swatters. I had found Sight Word flash cards at another store. When I passed the fly swatters, a light bulb ignited, and Sight Word Slap was created! I wanted to create this game because going through flash cards is not exciting and "love of reading" inducing. However, going through flash cards in order to set up the field for the ability to slap the table with a fly swatter can get pretty exciting! 

Boom! 

Materials: craft sticks with sight words written on them, craft sticks with colored dots (boom! sticks), container

The container to keep the sticks in is a canister from the dollar section of Target, which I decorated with mod podge and clips of book covers from my teacher catalog. It's beautiful! 

In order to put the sight words on the craft sticks, I wrote them on index cards and taped them to the sticks. 

Rules: 

The craft sticks need to be put in the canister with the sight words towards the bottom (including the boom! sticks). 

• Take turns picking sticks from the canister. 
• If a sight word is on the stick, the student must read the word out loud. If the word is read correctly, the student gets to keep the stick. 
• If a boom! stick is taken out, the student must put all the acquired sticks back in the canister! 

Sight Word Slap

Materials: Sight Word flash cards (can use index cards with words written on the cards), fly swatter

Rules: 

• Gather the group of words you are going to use for practice. 
• Go through the words with the student. Once the student reads the word correctly, the card is laid out on the table.  
• Once 7-10 cards are laid out on the table, say a sight word out loud. 
• The student then needs to slap the word with the fly swatter. 

For example, in the pictures on the right, the word said out loud was "like."