Robert Frost Elementary School

1. Rice tray-Say and spell:
• Read through each sight word- For unknown sight words-
• Have the child repeat the sight word
• Have the child trace the letters of the word in the rice. As they
   trace the letters they should be naming the letters in the word
   out-loud.  Repeat this activity with any sight word that is unknown.
2. Play coin toss - words on floor - children take turns to toss a
   coin onto a word and say that word.
3. Play Hangman using the word card words.
4. How quickly can you find a certain word in a book.
5. Play dominoes with the sight word cards- match the same end letter/ beginning letter.
6. Circle letters or small words within words using whiteboard marker on laminated
   word cards.
7. Place word cards in alphabetical order.
8. Around the World Words – flash a word – first player to say word
   out of that pair moves on to the next person to make a pair and
   an-other word is flashed, etc, etc.
9. Play ‘tic tac toe, here I go, where I stop I do not know’ -
   children say the word that you stop on...
10. Play stepping stones - place words on the floor and children walk
   over them saying the word as they go to get to the other side of the
   stream.
11. Make words using playdough, clay, or wikki stix
12. Make words using letter tiles -scrabble pieces.
13. Make words using magnetic letters.
14. Beat the clock - How many times can a word be written in 1 minute etc.
15. Children write their words in list form and then write over the
   words 2 or more times using different colors to create rainbow words.