40 Sensational Sight Word Games Quick & Easy Games and Reproducibles That Reinforce the Top 100 Sight Words That Are Key to Reading Success

by Novelli, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780439303576
• ISBN10: 0439303575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

Help kids learn sight words and become better readers with easy games like Sight Word Soup, Magic Wand Words, Simon Says Sight Words!, Word Construction Site, Sing a Song of Sight Words, and 35 more! From board games to floor games, this collection makes learning to read fun for every child in your class. Includes reproducible sight-word cards, games, wheels, and other easy-to-make manipulatives. For use with Grades K-2.

Author Biography

Joan Novelli is a former classroom teacher and reading specialist. She writes frequently for parents, teachers, and children. Her work appears regularly in Sesame Street Parents, Parent and Child, Instructor, and other magazines. Joan also edits many titles for Scholastic Professional Books and is the author of Using Caldecotts Across the Curriculum, Fresh & Fun: Valentine's Day, Phonics Make-and-Take Manipulatives, and co-author of the three-book series Interactive Bullentin Boards: Math, Language Arts, and September to June all published by Scholastic Professional Books. Joan lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

Table of Contents

About This Book	4	(1)
Dolch Basic Sight Word Vocabulary List	5	(2)
Reproducible Sight Word Cards	7	(5)
Reproducible Student Checklist My Sight Words	12	(1)
Take-Home Activity Pages Learning Sight Words at Home	13	(5)
Top-10 Ways to Practice Sight Words	18	(1)
Activities
Buzz!	19	(1)
Sight Word Soup	19	(1)
Sight Word Safari	20	(1)
Squirt and Spell	20	(1)
Magic Wand Words	21	(1)
Oh, No!	22	(1)
Simon Says Sight Words!	23	(1)
Sight Word Snake	24	(1)
Leaping Lilypads	24	(1)
Sight-Word-Building Morning Messages	25	(1)
Go In and Out the Window	26	(1)
Spill a Sight Word	27	(1)
Rainstick Relay	27	(1)
Play-Clay Shape and Spell	28	(1)
Peekaboo Word-Finder Window	29	(1)
Letters Line Up	30	(1)
Beep!	30	(1)
Red Rover, Red Rover	31	(1)
Bingo Word Wall	32	(1)
What's My Word? Lineup Game	32	(1)
Pick a Partner	33	(1)
In the Hat	33	(1)
Glow-in-the-Dark Word Stars	34	(1)
Sing a Song of Sight Words	35	(1)
I'm Thinking of	35	(1)
Mingle and Match	36	(1)
Sight Word Search	37	(1)
Make Sight Word Mats	37	(1)
Eggs in a Basket	38	(1)
Shake, Read, and Write	39	(1)
Grow a Sight Word Garden	40	(1)
Rhyming Word Builders	41	(1)
Word Construction Site	42	(1)
Catch a Word!	42	(1)
Sight Word Sandwiches	43	(1)
Zoom!	44	(1)
Bounce It, Say It, Catch It, Spell It	45	(1)
Silly (and Serious) Pocket Chart Sentence Makers	46	(1)
Street Sign Sight Word Map	47	(1)
Picture Puzzles	48	(1)
Sight Word Wheels	48	(1)
Reproducible Student Activity Pages	49