Curation of OER - Teaching Kindergarten Sight Words

This lesson teaches students to differentiate between pictures, letters, and words. This is an important prerequisite skill for learning sight words.

This lesson plan incorporates instruction about the relationship between letters and sounds, which is an important prerequisite skill for teaching sight words. This is an ongoing lesson in which students build letter books to match letters and sounds.

This is a video of a lesson about word building. The teacher facilitates segmenting and blending of sounds while students read and spell words. This is an important prerequisite skill for learning sight words.

This source has multiple great resources for teaching irregular words (sight words). Included in this lesson folder is a timeline and guide for introducing new irregular words, fluency building activities, games, teacher resources and more. These resources help teachers facilitate quick recall of sight words.

This lesson plan should be used in combination with the Sight Word Spelling Video. In this lesson plan, students learn sight words through the use of flashcards and movement. Students use their body to form the shape of each letter in the sight word displayed on the flashcard.

In this video, students spell sight words using their bodies. This method of sight word instruction combines the use of sight word flashcards with motion to teach this skill.

In this fun game, sight word cards are attached to plastic water bottles which are arranged like bowling pins. As students bowl, they must read the words on the bottles that are knocked down to receive points for their team.

This YouTube video has several creative and fun ideas for teaching sight words using games in kindergarten. Teachers can watch this video for ideas on how to use sight word games in the classroom, and students can watch this video for a fun presentation of the directions for each game.

This YouTube video reviews a few kindergarten sight words through the use of an emergent reader text. Students can read along with the narrator. Also, this video reminds students about using one of our kindergarten reading strategies: Use picture clues to help you read!

This YouTube video reviews several kindergarten sight words using a few well known strategies. This video can be watched by students for intervention or homework in order to increase sight word fluency. In this video, students will read and write the words along with the narrator. In addition, the narrator discusses looking for sight words in text as well as using these words when writing sentences.

This three session plan includes instruction on prerequisite skills for sight word recognition such as blending and segmenting. Additionally, sight word recognition games and sentence building activities are included in the plan.

In this lesson, students use a repetitive and predictable text to learn sight words. Then, after reading, students use the high-frequency words from the text to build their own sentences in order to create a story. Additionally, an interactive tool is provided for students to make, print and illustrate their story.