10 Ways to Practice Sight Words in the Classroom

Sight word practice in special education

Sight words can be tricky for our students to learn. It's so important to give students various opportunities to practice reading and spelling sight words!

I love using hands on materials and ways to practice with sight words. Many of these ideas can also be used when work on word work too!
1) Use sight word cards to build the words on a light board or letter board! This is great because students are also working on fine motor skills!

Sight word practice in special education

2) Stamp the words! Again, this is great because students are also working on fine motor skills!

Sight word practice in special education

3) Use any letter toys to build the words! I found these trains at Tuesday Morning (I can't find them online anywhere) but if you search "Letter train" on Amazon, you can find some different options!

Sight word practice in special education

4) Do rainbow writing! With rainbow writing, students write the same word in all the colors of the rainbow so they get multiple opportunities to practice writing/ spelling the word.

Sight word practice in special education

5) Do a "say/ read it," "build it" and "write it" activity. You can grab this for free from my TpT shop and can just swap out sight words cards that you already have.

Sight word practice in special education

6) Laminate any sight word worksheets you have to make reusable sight word books! These worksheets are in my TpT shop here.

Sight word practice in special education

7) Use beads and string or pipe cleaner to build words! Another fine motor winner!

Sight word practice in special education

8) Use sight word cards and cubes with letters on them to build words.

Sight word practice in special education

9) Use play dough and letter stamps to stamp the words. You can find letter stamps at Lake Shore or on Amazon here.
Sight word practice in special education

10) Create a sight word matching book!

Sight word practice in special education


If you are looking for some sight word cards, centers and materials to easily make these activities, check out this bundle!

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