Sight Word Activities are ‘Fun and Learn’

Author: reikopena | Posted: 08.05.2012

Want to see your child read confidently? Concerned about his learning capabilities? Well this is a common concern for most parents who wish to see their child become an expert reader as well as comprehend the meaning of the sentences he reads. But not all this is a one day affair. It involves not only child’s interest but even your cooperation to make the subject appear easier through sight word activities. These activities are fun doing and you would really love to see your child developing the required reading skills. As sight words cannot be spelled phonetically, hence it gets easier to teach these words through various interesting activities.

It is with the help of these activities that you can make the child learn more complex sight words easily and quickly. In order to make the activities more exciting you may read sight word stories or label common objects in your home using index cards and black marker asking the child to identify the words. Creating a picture dictionary also sounds to be an interesting idea where familiar items, objects, colors and labels are used to mark the object for identification. You can lay out an array of familiar word cards and instruct your child to point to the words as you call them aloud.

Games and activities can promote sight word knowledge in an easy way. As kids do not learn new words at once, through these repetitive activities they easily identify the word and put it in their knowledge base. Repetitive reading of texts featuring certain sight words is one strategy for helping children put these words in their memory. Moreover, repetitive glancing at the word would also help the child reinforce it in his mind. Easy to do and really entertaining these activities also provide you an opportunity to understand your child in a better manner.

So the next time you see your child facing problems while reading a text then remember that sight word activities are a definite solution. ,.



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