Grade 1 sight word games
Sight Words Games for 1st Graders Online
Reading Made Fun With Sight Word Games for 1st GradersChildren love to read. As babies, they love to flip pages and pretend to read a book.
The challenges of reading only become real when children start learning sight words. Sight word reading can be a long and challenging process for most children.
While some words stick to memory easily, others need consistent practice.
At SplashLearn, we have some amazing sight word games for 1st graders to make reading more enjoyable for your children.
Why Are Sight Words Important?While most of the words we read in our daily life can be spelled phonetically, certain words must be read by sight. Building sight word vocabulary and reading fluency will help your children read quicker and with more efficiency.
There are sight words of varying difficulty. Familiarizing your child with grade-appropriate sight words will help them learn things faster.
Sight word games make learning basic sight words and adding new words to your child’s vocabulary fun and exciting.
Interesting Ways to Teach Sight Words to 1st GradersLearning sight words can sometimes be overwhelming. For children who are more comfortable learning through phonetic sounds, this process may prove challenging and, at times, difficult.
Here are some of the best ways to make sight-reading for grade 1 easier and interactive:
- Online reading: There are several books that you can read online. These books flash the text on the screen and have a speech synthesis built into it. As the audio plays, the words on the page light up automatically. Children can familiarize themselves with sight words while enjoying reading their favorite books over and over.
- Word wall: You can now, quite literally, build walls with words. Make flashcards with sight words, one word on each card.
Now, you may build this wall in several ways. You can ask your child to pick a card, read it, and lay the brick(card) on the wall. Use some regular masking tape, or just place the brick on the floor. Another way to play the game is to scatter all the bricks(cards) face open, call out a word, and get your child to pick the right one and place it on the wall. Remember that in the learning process, recognition comes before the recall. - Word catch: This is a wonderful game for kinesthetic learners. Fill a tub with some plastic balls. Write a sight word on each. Get your child to pick a ball, read out the word, and throw it to you. Then you take your turn, throw another ball to your child, and ask him or her to read it.
- Tic Tac Toe: Once your child is quite familiar with sight words, introduce a new challenge. Make multiple tic tac toe grids and write down a sight word in each square. Play the game, as usual, ensuring the child reads the word in the square he or she wants to claim.
You can read out your words too, and help make it an interactive experience.
By the time your child has reached grade 1 sight-reading, he or she should already be able to feel familiar with some 2-letter sight words.
Always begin by practicing what is known. Then slowly introduce one or two new words a day. Try and follow these steps when learning:
- Show the word, spell it out, call the word out loud, and use it in a sentence.
- Now show the word again, and ask the child to repeat it.
- Spell the word, and call it out. Practice these steps a few times before you move on.
- Now show the child three or four words, and ask them to pick the sight word.
- Say the word out, and ask them to spell again.
- Practice reading a few simple, grade 1 sentences with the sight word in them. This will help them gain the context of the word.
First-grade readers are usually very excited about reading and spelling.
They may feel a little disappointed when they experience struggles or challenges. Therefore, it is essential to remember a few things when taking your child through the process:
- Take things at their pace. Don’t rush because that won’t help the child or you.
- Avoid comparing with other children or the grade level. Some children may require a lot of practice initially and may pick up very quickly later on.
- Revise and practice. There is a lifetime of learning waiting to take place. Spend time ensuring the child has understood and is comfortable with the words before you move on.
- Motivate and celebrate – even the smallest wins and the effort.
Teach your child the joy of sight words through SplashLearn’s interactive online sight word games for 1st graders. They’ll make your child look forward to a new learning experience every day.
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Sight Words Go Fish | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read
- Overview
- Materials
- Activity
- Confidence Builder
- Assessment
- Printable Go Fish Cards
- Questions and Answers
Sight Words Go Fish is a vocabulary-themed variation of the classic Go Fish card game, for 2-4 players.
Introducing this game is easiest when the children already have experience playing the traditional Go Fish game, because they will already understand the game dynamics and can focus their attention on the reading aspect. This is of particular importance for younger children, who can get overwhelmed with having to learn a new game and new words at the same time.
The goal is to collect more pairs of matching cards than anyone else. Children must read the sight word on the card they wish to play and be able to read the words that are requested by other players. It is another fun way to give children extensive exposure to a variety of sight words.
Image: Sight Words Go Fish
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For Sight Words Go Fish, you will make and use a set of cards with various word pairs. The number of pairs depends on how many words you select when creating the cards. You can also remove some pairs from your deck of cards to make it a more manageable size.
Use our Go Fish Card Generator to create a set of cards and print them out, preferably on heavy-duty cardstock paper. You will want to use a mix of newer words that the children have not yet mastered and familiar words that could use some review.
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These instructions are for a game with 3-4 players. Sight Words Go Fish can also be played easily with just two players.
Video: How to Play Sight Words Go Fish
Deal 5 cards to each player (7 cards each if there are only 2 players), then place the remaining cards face down in the middle of the circle formed by the players. All the players look at their cards but do not reveal them to each other.
Player A takes the first turn. Player A selects one of her cards and reads the word on it out loud, moving her index finger from left to right underneath the letters as she reads.
(An adult should demonstrate this reading technique at the start of the game to teach or remind children how best to read the word.)
Player A then selects another player and asks him, “Player C, do you have any cards with the word BEFORE?” If Player C has a card with that word, he must say “Yes, I have a card with the word BEFORE,” and hand it to Player A, who then gets another turn. If any player struggles with reading or pronouncing a word, take a moment to go through the sight words correction to reinforce the correct pronunciation.
If Player C does not have any of the requested card, he shouts, “Go Fish!” Player A must then draw a card from the stack. If the drawn card has the word she was looking for, she shows the card and gets to take another turn. Otherwise, her turn ends, and the child who said “Go Fish” gets the next turn.
If a player collects both cards of a particular word pair, he puts them in a face-up stack in front of him.
The game continues until someone has no cards left or the face-down stack runs out. The winner is the player with the most pairs of matching cards.
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To make the game a little easier, especially for a younger child, simply use fewer pairs of cards.
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Observe the game, whether it’s watching your own child in your 2-player game or observing a group of students in a 4-player game. Make note of which words the children have mastered, and which ones are still a bit of a struggle. Be on the lookout for individual children who are struggling with several of the words.
A child is considered to have mastered the sight words in this activity when she can consistently recognize and read all the word cards in her hand, with confidence and without any noticeable hesitation.
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Create your own custom Go Fish Cards or use some of our pre-made templates below.
6.1 Blank Go Fish Card Templates
- Blank Go Fish Card Templates (Write in your own words)
6.2 Dolch Sight Words Go Fish Cards
- Pre-K Dolch Words (40 words)
- Kindergarten Dolch Words (52 words)
- 1st Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
- 2nd Grade Dolch Words (46 words)
- 3rd Grade Dolch Words(41 words)
- Noun Dolch Words (95 words)
6.3 Fry Sight Words Go Fish Cards
- 1st 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 2nd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 3rd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 4th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 5th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 6th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 7th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 8th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 9th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
- 10th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
6.4 Top 150 Written Words Go Fish Cards
- 1st 50 Words (50 words)
- 2nd 50 Words (50 words)
- 3rd 50 Words (50 words)
To download a template, right-click and select Save As.
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Extra-curricular activity - a game for 8th grade students in physics and biology "Tic-tac-toe"
Goals:
Equipment: chalkboard with picture playing field, computer, projector, screen, chips, booklets, X and O cards, prizes and diplomas.
Participants: teacher of physics and biology , 2 teams of students in grades 8 of 8 people each, jury.
Event progress
Playing field
| "Homework" | "Black box" | "Helpful - Harmful" |
| Captains Competition | "At the doctor's appointment" | "Basket of riddles, proverbs and sayings" |
| Visual Illusions | "Warm-up" | "Make a word" |
Warm-up
Insert missing word (Assignments presented on a separate sheet for each commands, correctness and time are evaluated performance of work, maximum score - 3 chips) (Appendix 1)
The organ of vision is ::(eye)
It has three ::..(shells)
The one that is white on the outside
Let's call it :::.(protein)
So transparent ahead -
Comparable to glass
We call this part of her
Just ::::.(cornea)
Layer two - it has vessels
He is ahead ::::.(iris)
There is a hole in it :::.(pupil)
And different pigments
Behind the pupil we have :::: (crystalline lens)
It changes ::::..(curvature)
And so we see
And near, and a mile away
Light enters the eye easily
Everything in the area is visible to me
After all, in the eye there is ::::: (apple)
Body ::::::(vitreous)
In the depth lies ::::.(retina)
This layer is required
Col::::.. (receptors) OK
It's okay we look.
"Homework"
The task is given to the teams in advance. Topics distributed by lot. Need to prepare presentations in Microsoft Office PowerPoint on the following topics: "Human Vision", "How Animals See" the maximum score is 5 chips.
The jury evaluates relevance to the topic, reliability of the material, decor. (appendix 2, app 3)
"Basket of riddles, proverbs and sayings"
Team members recall proverbs, sayings and riddles about eyes and vision: Everyone The correct answer is 1 chip.
Gouge out your eye.
Whoever remembers the old is out of his sight.
Sleep with one eye and watch with the other.
Your own eye is better than your brother's.
No eyes on the back of the head.
The eyes do not live above the forehead.
They talk about the king behind his back.
Do not flatter in the face, and do not scold behind the eyes.
The eyes are envious, but the hands are raking.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
Fear has big eyes.
The truth hurts the eyes.
Two windows close themselves at night, and with open by sunrise. (Eyes)
Each face has two beautiful lakes.
Between they have a mountain, name them, kids. (Eyes)
What no one wants to have but is afraid to lose? (Points)
Pakhom sits on horseback, reads books, and does not know literacy. (Points)
Under the bridge - bridge, under the sable - sable two sables played out (eyebrows and eyes).
"Make a word"
From the proposed letters, team members in one minute should compose words on the topic: "Eye and vision". For each composed word - 1 chip
A, O, K, I, S, T, N, E, L, U, Z, R, H, G, P, V, X, F, D.
"Black box"
An object, name is placed in the black box which the players must guess, while, asking questions related to the subject which can only be answered with "Yes" or "Not". (Item - glasses) Correct answer - 1 chip
"Helpful - harmful"
Look at the pictures and say what is for the eyes useful and what is harmful. (The teacher demonstrates children appropriate drawings using projector.
) Each correct answer - 1 chip
- Read lying down.
- Look at a bright light.
- Watch TV at close range.
- Protect the eye from impact.
- Rinse eyes in the morning.
- Rubbing eyes with dirty hands.
- Read in good light.
"At the doctor's appointment"
Imagine that you are an ophthalmologist. What kind vision-saving exercises offer to your patients? Correct answer - 1 chip. At the end of the competition, all team members receive a booklet. (Appendix 4)
"Captains Competition"
Each captain is invited to solve one task from the course of biology and physics. For the right solution - 5 chips.
1. At the bottom of the eyeball, in the posterior region retina (inner lining of the eyeball) photosensitive cells) is "blind spot. What is it? Why is this area the retina got its name? (biology)
1. Before you glasses are identical in appearance and size.
One prescription for these glasses says +1.5 diopters, and on the other +3 diopters. How, using the radiation of a lamp, select points that match the recipe +1.5 diopter? Which glasses have more glass? (physics)
2. Have you ever noticed that pupil diameter is not constant. Under the influence of what factor the pupil narrows, then expands? What determines pupil size? What does it have biological significance? (biology)
2. In water, a person sees blurry contours objects surrounding it. Does this mean that under water the eyes become very nearsighted or very farsighted? Justify your answer. (physics)
Fan competition "Visual illusions"
Optical illusions amuse us and attract us since antiquity. From the nineteenth century illusions are beginning to be actively explored. And already today on their basis, a person begins to penetrate into little-studied depths of perception of the environment us of the world. We invite you to consider some pictures and reply to questions posed.
Winning Cheerleader gives the earned chip to his team. Correct answer - 1 chip (Teacher shows the children the appropriate drawings with projector.)
(Picture 1)
How many boards are in the picture?
(Picture 2)
How many dinosaurs are in the picture?
(Picture 3)
How many fingers are in the picture?
Summing up, awarding winners.
Children's games for learning English
In today's world, the popularity of the English language has reached its peak for a long time. The language is considered international, and in many European countries locals speak English. This is a huge advantage for those who love to travel the world.
Many parents today want their children to study at the most prestigious international universities in Europe, the USA, and for this, at least, you need to know English.
That is why children have to learn a foreign language from an early age. Of course, on the one hand, this is very good, since kids absorb much more information than adults, but on the other hand, it is quite difficult in terms of learning. When an adult plans to learn a foreign language, he does it consciously, he has a motivation, an incentive. Kids, on the other hand, do not yet realize why they need it and whether they need it at all. But in this situation there is a way out. The most important thing in teaching English to kids is the ability to interest them, involve them in the process, and the most interesting process for little children is a game. That is why this article discusses the main types of children's games for learning English.
It can be said that English learning games for children are the main form of learning a foreign language. They create a relaxed environment in which learning is easier compared to forced teaching methods. During the game, children not only memorize new words, expressions or rules, but also develop attention, memory, thinking, observation and, of course, creativity.
The use of games in teaching helps to maintain interest in the English language, and also helps to more easily learn, consolidate and master the lesson material.
Now let's take a closer look at English games for children. They can be used individually or in small groups.
1. Simon says.
A very simple game that is better and more fun to play in a group. The teacher acts as a leader and must give instructions to the guys so that they perform some action. For example, "Simon says: touch your ears!" - “Simon says, touch your ears!”, “Simon says: put your hands on your shoulders!” "Simon says put your hands on your shoulders!" There may be many options here.
2. "Countable - uncountable."
This game was invented on the principle of the game "edible - inedible". The players throw the ball to each other and shout out nouns, and the one who catches the ball must answer whether the object is countable or not. For example, the first player throws the ball and shouts "book", the one who caught the ball must say "countable" or "uncountable".
If the player who caught the ball answers correctly, then now he throws the ball and says his word, but if he made a mistake, he simply leaves the game.
3. Crocodile.
Everyone knows this game. Its essence is to explain with gestures the words of the topic that are being passed or have already been passed. Different parts of speech can be used as displayed words, but with babies it is better to try only nouns and verbs to begin with.
4. "Try and guess."
A variation of the game "crocodile", but in this case the children need to explain the word. You can play the game in two ways. The first way is that the student takes one card out of several offered and tries to explain to other students what the word is on the card.
Let's say the word "chair" is written on the card. This concept can be explained as follows: “It’s a piece of furniture” (this is a piece of furniture). "It's not big" (it's small). "It is wooden" (it is wooden). "You can sit on it" (you can sit on it).
The explanation doesn't have to be long, complex sentences, on the contrary, it will be more interesting when the student pauses between sentences so that others think a little and scroll through the information in their heads.
The second way is as follows. One student takes a card and looks at what word he came across. His task is only to briefly answer the questions of other guys - yes / no (yes / no). That is, the guessers will try to find out for themselves what is hidden, asking leading questions that can only be answered with “yes” or “no”. For example, the word "ball" (ball) is guessed. To guess this word, you can make the following questions: “Is it big?” (Is it big?), "Is it brown/red/green etc.?" (Is it brown? Red? Green?), "Can you eat it?" (it can be eaten?) and so on. Questions must be asked until the word is guessed.
5. "Guess what I'm doing?"
Another type of Crocodile game, which has a more grammatical focus. The student who guessed the action should depict some process as accurately as possible, and the other guys need to guess what he is doing and say the sentence in English in a certain tense form.
For example, the student must show that he is dancing, and the guys need to make a sentence in Present Continuous, therefore, the following will turn out: "He is dancing." - "He is dancing". Which of the students correctly guesses the movement and correctly composes a sentence will be the next one to depict the action.
6. "As much as possible."
This educational game in English will help children learn a large number of new words more easily. It is best for her to divide the students into two teams. The essence of the game is to name as many words of a given topic as possible. For example, the theme "Weather" (weather). Students can name different words and phrases that relate to this topic, and the part of speech can also be any. Such words may include "sunny" (sunny), "wind" (wind), "clouds" (clouds) and so on. The team that will name more words related to this topic will be considered the winner.
7. Compound word
This game in English is suitable for children who already have a certain vocabulary.
The essence of the game is that you need to make a word from three to five words of the same topic, and the next word must begin with the same letter as the previous word ends with. Let's say the teacher asked the topic "Colors" (Colors). The option that can be accepted as an answer is gre Y ello W hite. That is, gray (gray) ends with the letter "y", and the next word "yellow" begins just with the same letter "y". In this way, you can make other words from three to five words, but these words should be of the same subject.
8. "Colors"
The game is very simple, but at the same time interesting. It is better to play it if there are six to eight people in a group. Its purpose is to promote the development of attention and memory, and with the help of it it will be easier for children to remember the names of colors. So, if there is a small variety of colors in the classroom or office where classes are held, then before the game the teacher will need to arrange multi-colored objects.
Moreover, the number of items of different colors will be different. Let's say there are 6 people in a group, so you need to choose 6 colors - red (red), blue (blue), white (white), green (green), orange (orange), yellow (yellow). But the number of items of each color should be different, for example, red items can be taken six pieces, blue - five, white - four, green - three, orange - two, and yellow - one. That is, the game is designed for the reaction of children, so that after the teacher’s command to choose an object of a certain color, the guys grab the right thing as quickly as possible, and the one who did not have time is out. As a result, the course of the game will look like this: the teacher gives the command: “Children, take red pencils! Children, take blue balls! Children, take white paper! Children, take green apples! Children, take orange stamps! Children, take yellow books!” The winner is the one who has all six items of different colors.
9. Gather everyone.
This educational game in English is designed to consolidate words on a specific topic. For example, you can take the themes "At the Zoo" and "On a Farm". The task for the students will be as follows: In one large pile there will be animal toys that need to be distributed into groups - some to the Zoo, others to the Farm. Each student must choose a toy and put it in the right box or box, while naming the animal in English. Let's say he took a cow and said: "It's a cow" (This is a cow). The task can also be slightly complicated by having the student add a sentence about where the animal lives. For example, like this: "It's a cow. It lives on a farm ”(This is a cow. She lives on a farm). And so on until the last toy is in its place.
There can be many variations in this game. You can also distribute the animals according to the countries where they live, or you can choose the shapes and have the students distribute the objects according to their shapes. It all depends on the topic that the students are going through.
10. Snowball.
One of the most popular games in English for schoolchildren, which will force students to be as attentive as possible. At the same time, it is recommended to conduct it when the number of students does not exceed eight people. Words are better to choose one topic so that it is not so difficult. So, the first student says his word, the second repeats this word, then he says his own. The third student needs to first say the word of the first student, then the second, and then add his word and so on. To complicate the task, you can spend two circles. It will look something like this (let's say the theme is "Vegetables" (vegetables):
First student: tomato…
Second student: tomato, potato…
Third student: tomato, potato, cucumber…
Fourth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage…
Fifth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage, onion…
Sixth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage, onion, carrot…
To make the game meaningful, you can introduce a rule: whoever makes a mistake is out of the game.
