Ideas for First grade sight words

[My4Kidds]

So, I recently found out that my 1st grader is a little behind her class on the level of sight words she knows....I was pretty devastated because I thought she was doing well and learning has always come so easy to me and I was hoping to pass that on. Unfortunately, I think her learning style comes from her dad and she may need a little extra push. She's very smart; just has trouble sitting still and concentrating. So, I wrote out all her sight words and put them on index cards and posted them on this door that is in a main area of the house so she will see them all the time and made up a couple concentration type games to help her learn them. She had a lot of fun. Does anyone have any other ideas I could use to help her with these words besides just showing her card after card and saying "what word is this?"...she needs something to make it fun. Thanks!

[gonetomiss]

We did the index cards flipped upside down then my son would flip one over if he got it right he would keep it and wrong he would flip it back over he liked it.  My daughter likes grown up chapter books so she takes my books and a highlighter and highlights every sight word on the page, something she came up with.

[jazzyandpat]

how about posting them on things? like one on the tv and things like that

[stefvan]

First, you need to know her learning style - can she sound the words out?  Or does she just have to memorize them?  I ask because my dsd had the hardest time learning her words to the point we were just lost.  Honestly, she was in 4th grade before she could really read well.

Then, my dd came along and could tell you the words without any help at 4.  She could sound them out.  When my ds came along, he was like my dsd and it clicked - he had to memorize them.  So, I said the word, he said the word, back and forth.  We sang them sometimes, too.  We turned them over and matched them (using 2 of each word).  When he started 1st grade, we had to fill out a sheet on our children's learning styles.  His teacher said most parents don't recognize the different styles and that I had him right on. 

 

[My4Kidds]

Yeah I thought about this aspect....I'm in school for Early Childhood Educationa (am actually almost finished) and know about the different learning styles....that's why I felt so bad when the paper came home saying she was on Theme 2 and everyone else was on Theme 5. :( She is very hands on so she needs something active and involved to make it fun.

Quoting stefvan:

First, you need to know her learning style - can she sound the words out?  Or does she just have to memorize them?  I ask because my dsd had the hardest time learning her words to the point we were just lost.  Honestly, she was in 4th grade before she could really read well.

Then, my dd came along and could tell you the words without any help at 4.  She could sound them out.  When my ds came along, he was like my dsd and it clicked - he had to memorize them.  So, I said the word, he said the word, back and forth.  We sang them sometimes, too.  We turned them over and matched them (using 2 of each word).  When he started 1st grade, we had to fill out a sheet on our children's learning styles.  His teacher said most parents don't recognize the different styles and that I had him right on. 

[Mrs.Grasshopper]

My 6 yr old is in kindergarten and here is some ideas that is in his sight word book~~

Use clay or playdough to make long snakes and then make them into letters and make the sight words

using dry erase markers wright them on glass, wright the sight words on the mirror in the bathroom. she can read the words while she brushes her teethor comb her hair

use the flash cards as a "musical words" tape them on the floor in a circle and play music stop the music and ask her what the word is shes on

Make a bingo game with the words

make a word search with the words

create the sight words using yarn, tooth picks, Q-tips, beans, macaroni, pipecleaners, or popcycle sticks.

write the words in salt or sugar in a deep cookie dish

try the same thing with jello or pudding

write them on a magnidoodle

paint the words with water on a chalk board

write the words with glue, then sprinkle with jello. after it dry have her rub the words for a scratch and sniff practice

usea tape recorder to practice words

use scrabble board letters

use magnetic letters on your fridge

have her cut them out of amagazen or newspaper

use gel shave cream and make the words let them dry and use them over and over

use flash cards and place them inside shoes, pockets ect

put paper clips on each flash card then "fish for them with a magnet hooked on a string

We go to school like 5-10 min early and he gets in the front seat (he LOVES that) and we do his flashcards till the "gramdma helper" comes outside to watch the kids, sometime we make a game to see if we can sing the words like a song

i hope this helps you good luck!!!!!!!

[My4Kidds]

Those are some great ideas! Thanks so much!

[sweet-a-kins]

for my daughter, we tapes words to objects in the house..On a door, we would tape the word door

On a lamp we posted lamp...etc

Also, we had a game called WAR or WORDS tape small words (2.3&4 letter words) to playing cards, then you play just like war only the number you go by is the number of letters in the word..and they have to read the word that they laid down and you read the word you laid down, If they like playing games they wanna keep playing and the start to remember the words