Second grade sight words activities

48 Fun Sight Word Activities That Work

Teachers are always on the hunt for great sight word activities. Sight words are any words readers recognize automatically “by sight”—for fluent readers, that’s almost all words! High-frequency words, the most commonly occurring words in written English like those on the Dolch list, are often thought of as the most crucial sight words.

It’s a myth that blindly memorizing every letter in a sight word is the only way to learn it. The science of reading tells us that linking sounds and letters is the most effective way for kids’ brains to learn any word. Many common words are easy to tackle using beginning phonics skills (like “at,” “can,” “him,” etc.), so staying true to a strong phonics curriculum is one way to support kids’ sight word learning. Even irregularly spelled words have decodable parts, e.g., kids can use the sounds of “s” and “d” to help with “said,” even if the “ai” is unexpected. Experts often call these words “heart words” to call out for kids that they should learn the unexpected word parts “by heart. ” (If all this is unfamiliar to you, it can feel overwhelming, but you’ve got this! Check out teaching guru Jillian Starr’s explanation for more help.)

Check out these low-prep and engaging sight word activities for both teaching and practicing words.

1. Map it and drive it

This is a genius way to introduce words with appealing materials: Say the word, represent each sound with a LEGO brick, write letters for each sound, and “drive” to read it.

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2. Smush play dough for each sound

Set up a routine that works for any word. Play dough squishing for each sound is the ultimate multi-sensory component.

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3. Map words with a magnet wand

It is so super-satisfying to drag those magnetic dots around! Watch the video below for lots of tips on introducing a word using this process.

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Lots of handy info in one place for your little learners.

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5. Tap it, pop it, learn it!

Hardwire those words in kids’ brains with this comprehensive word intro routine. (You had us with the pop its!)

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6. Find and swat words

An oldie but such a goodie. Find a word in an array and WHACK! Swat it with a fly swatter!

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7. Flip word pancakes

Serve up sight word pancakes while practicing spelling them aloud.

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8. Wear heart word bracelets

Make kids feel like sight word VIPs.

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9. Search for sight word balls

Write sight words on ball pit balls with a chalk marker or dry-erase marker. Kids can race around hunting for balls to read and toss in a basket, or hunt through a big tub of balls for a certain word.

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Loud but oh-so-fun! Feel the rhythm while tapping and reading sight words stuck to homemade percussion instruments.

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11. Drive on a sight word path

This is one of many fun ways to use magnetic tiles for learning! Kids love “knocking down” word tiles with a toy car as they read each one.

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12. Use sticky notes to inspire sight word sentences

Have kids stick words on items that give them ideas for sentences. “My Mom said to wear a helmet!” = so good!

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13. Write words on a sensory bag

So easy: Fill a zip-top bag with a small amount of kid-safe paint, seal well, and have kids practice “writing” sight words with their finger or a cotton swab.

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14. Wear a sight word crown

Wear your word proudly and practice reading others’ words. Fun in person or virtually.

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15. Play a magnetic-tile board game

We love new ideas for ways to use magnetic tiles for sight word activities. Easy to set up and fun to play.

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16. Spell words to a familiar tune

Get sight words stuck in everyone’s head, in a good way. We’d add a line for chanting the sounds in the word!

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17. Feed a word monster

Nom, nom, nom.

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18. Search for the pom-pom under sight word cups

Read all the words as you try to find the cup that hides the prize.

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19. Play sight word KABOOM

This classroom classic is perfect for sight words. If you need a refresher on the rules, Jillian Starr covers them.

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20. Roll and write words

Roll, write, repeat.

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21. Write words with rainbow colors

Bonus points for aromatic markers.

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22. Trace words with flashlights

Stock up on batteries because kids never get tired of this!

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23. Find words in plastic eggs

Give kids a checklist of words to find as they open each egg.

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24. Spy words around the classroom

Just add a magnifying glass and clipboard to make kids feel like supersleuths!

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25. Find words in the morning message

Don’t forget about old standbys! This is one of our favorite ways to get kids to recognize sight words in connected text.

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26. Build words with bricks

Such a great use of extra building bricks!

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27. Write words in sand

Easy-peasy to set up and keep neat if you use plastic pencil boxes.

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28. Spell words on a construction site

Bulldozing over each word to read it is the best part!

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Drive on over!

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30. Park in a sight word “parking lot”

This one is easy to modify based on whatever toys are available in the classroom or at home.

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31. “Plant” words in play dough

Watch those reading skills grow!

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32. Build words in a sensory tub

Because spelling is just more fun when your hands are covered in beans!

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33. Write words on a magnetic drawing board

That eraser track makes for a perfect word card holder!

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34. Or write words on the window!

Everyone wants a turn to write on the window!

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35. Shhh! Discover words written in invisible ink

Write words in white crayon and reveal them with watercolors on top!

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Calming and effective.

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37. “Type” words on a keyboard

Busy day at the sight word office! Use a keyboard cover or any old keyboard.

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38. Read words before heading through the door

The line leader can double as the word pointer during transitions.

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39. Read the word the teacher’s wearing!

Wait, is there something on my shirt?

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40. Take a sight word cakewalk

Choose a winning word when the music stops!

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41. Play sight word hopscotch

If you can’t get outdoors, tape on the floor works just as well.

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42. Play tic-tac-toe

I’ll be team “the.”

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43. Go sight word bowling

No bowling pins? Use half-filled plastic water bottles instead.

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44. Ready, aim, read

Just throw a beanbag at a word target if foam darts are a no-go.

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45. Play muffin tin ball toss

Toss and read. It’s easy to use colored muffin cups to prep different sets of words.

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46. DIY sentence flash cards

Authentic use of words in context for the win.

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47. Play sight word checkers

King me! If kids don’t have a partner available, they can “play” with a stuffed animal and get double practice.

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48. Play sight word Guess Who?

Set up this game once and use it forever.

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We’d love to hear—what are your favorite sight word activities? Share in the comments below.

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Plus, what are sight words?

25 low-prep sight word activities

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Today I’m sharing some simple sight word activities that you can prepare in minutes!

So what are sight words, anyway?

Some people will tell you that sight words are words that kids can’t sound out; they just have to learn them by sight. Others tell you that sight words are the high frequency words: the words that kids encounter the most when they read.

But researchers tell us that sight words are words we recognize automatically without needing to sound out or guess.

The real question is … how can we turn high frequency words INTO sight words? 

The number one thing to do is to teach each word explicitly. That’s why I created my set of sight word lessons with decodable books.

Once you’ve taught the words with attention to the spelling patterns (these sight word worksheets are also great for this), you’re ready for these low prep sight word activities that you can put together in under 15 minutes!

1- It takes just 5 minutes to set up Sight Word Sticky Note Match.  Just write the words on sticky notes and have your child cover the words on a dry erase board!

2 – Grab your alphabet stamps and some play dough for this simple sight word activity. 

3 – Write the words on sticky notes. Then have your child write them in sand.

4 – Teach sight word songs. 

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5 – Write the words on sticky notes. Then have your child swat each sight word  with a fly swatter as you name it!

6 –Do fun actions with your sight words with This Reading Mama’s free action cards.

7 – Write sight words in play dough with a stick or wooden skewer.

8 – Try chanting sight words in a variety of different ways – like a robot, a cheerleader, and more! You can get free sight word chants on TPT here.

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9 – Make a sight word memory game. Just write each sight word on two different index cards. Then turn the cards over and invite your child to find the matches.

10 – Print these free sight word cards and build the words with letter tiles. When you join This Reading Mama’s free email list, you’ll get lots of free sight word cards! Learn more here.

11- Learning is always more fun with dice! Grab these free rainbow roll & write pages for a variety of sight words. Kids roll a die, check the key at the top of the page, and write the word in a particular color.

12 – This is such a creative way to practice writing sight words! Find the words with a magnifying glass and write them on the lines. Get the freebie here.

13 – Are you students learning beginning sight words? Print and play sight word blackout.

14 – Simply write your child’s sight words on a piece of paper and have him stamp them with alphabet stamps.

15. Grab the play dough, a sheet protector, and a dry erase marker. Your child can build the word with play dough and write it on the lines below. Get the freebie here.

16 – Grab these free color-by-sight-word pages.

17 – Get some colorful craft sticks and write the words with a permanent marker for some simple sight word puzzles.

18- Sight Word Showdown is both simple and genius! Just grab a stack of index cards and write each word twice. Then follow the directions in this post.

19 – Write sight words in muffin tin liners and play a simple game of Three in a Row.

20 – Bury magnetic letters in a sensory material. Have children dig out the letters to build words.

21 – Make a sight word parking lot. Draw tiny parking spots on a piece of poster board, and write a sight word in each one. As you name the words, have your child park a toy car in each spot. Learn more here.

22- Practice writing sight words using a dry erase marker on a dry erase board.

23- Write sight words on craft sticks and provide some magnetic letters for this portable sight word activity.

24 – Where’s the bear? Write the words on paper cups and hide a small bear or other tiny object. Your child guesses where the bear is hiding by naming the word on the cup.

25 – Go on a simple sight word hunt by matching the sticky note sight words to the words on a clip board. (This one’s a favorite at our house.)

And there you have it! 25 low-prep ways to practice sight words!

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Project topics for grade 2

This section presents topics of research and projects for grade 2 , which are designed to develop the child's logical and imaginative thinking, the ability to analyze the knowledge and information received, apply them in practice, draw their own conclusions and form your own point of view.

In this section, students are offered project topics for grade 2 of elementary school, which help the child consolidate the acquired knowledge and implement it in independent research activities: analysis of works, growing plants, asking questions for reflection and putting forward hypotheses. nine0006

The topics of research papers presented for the 2nd grade of elementary school are interesting for children, they provide an opportunity for exciting research, a more in-depth study of the chosen topic.

The following topics of project work for literary reading in the 2nd grade of elementary school, if desired, can be modified and expanded with the advice of a teacher, and also be subject to changes during the implementation of research work.

Sample topics for research projects for grade 2:

Cars are modern and vintage.
Aquarium and its inhabitants
War and our family
Growing a crystal
Family tree of my family.
Is it far from us to the sun
Children's fantasies
Life and death of dinosaurs on planet Earth.
Protection of the act
Healthy lifestyle
Hello school!
How they chose my name
How our school works
Cactus is a prickly friend
Calendar of family professions.
Ships
My family's timeline.
Favorite cartoon.
Magic of color
Boys and girls.
My passion is vintage cars.
My city
My cat
My family tree
Reward in our house
Our house. Our yard
New Year's beauty.
Axial symmetry
Useful item for the home.
Why the puddle dried up
Holidays of my family
Professions of our dreams.
Professions of our parents.
Birds are our friends
My grandmother's story. (Letter to grandson)
Hometown through the eyes of a child
Russian Railways
Family heirlooms
Family traditions
Straw miracle
Bread is the head of everything
A flower placed in a closet, a leaf on the window half covered.
Chocolate - harm or benefit
What can the school library tell about.
Symbols of our class.
Sports life of the family.

Mathematics project topics for grade 2

Geometric shapes around us.
Measurements (what is measured, what is measured). nine0005 Mathematics in the Ancient World.
Patterns and ornaments on dishes
Units of measurement in Ancient Rus'.
Measuring values ​​
Interesting devices for counting.
Who came up with the numbers.
Magic patterns.
Numbering around us.
Application of addition and subtraction skills in our lives.
Decorating the classroom with patterns.
Numbers in proverbs and sayings.
Numbers in sports
What kind of science is mathematics?
Location encryption.

Reading project topics for grade 2

Sample topics for research projects for Grade 2:

Ah, hot summer.
Our favorite fairy tales.
Journey through fairy tales.
Poems about autumn
Sad time! Oh charm!
Baba Yaga - good or evil?
Fables
Heroes of fairy tales in modeling
Heroes of fairy tales in drawings
Ivan the Tsarevich and Ivan the Fool.
Collage "Let's populate the street with fabulous houses."
Collage on the topic: "Spring, spring and everything is happy for her!"
Who is Koschei the immortal
The bear is a fairy-tale character.
My favorite fairy tales
My favorite book.
Autumn in poems.
Preparing a wall newspaper “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.
Staging a performance based on one of the fairy tales.
Rhymes and jokes as small genres of oral folk art.
Folk and literary tales
Fairy tales, riddles, fables
Creation of costumes for fairy tale characters.
Creation of a collection of riddles.
Creation of a collection of fables.
Creation of a collection of proverbs and sayings. nine0005 Creation of a collection of works about the war.
Creation of a collection of fairy tales about one of the animals (hare, fox, bear, wolf).
Creating your own fairy tales.
Composing own works of small genres of oral art.
Poems about spring
Rhymes and fables.
What do our names mean.

Topics of Russian language projects for grade 2

Noun in proverbs and sayings.
My funny rules
NOT with a verb in poetry, proverbs, sayings. nine0005 Separating soft sign
Combinations of letters CHK, CHN, SHCHN in words.
Her Majesty comma
Adjective in proverbs and sayings.
Study of the word "Kindness"
Study of the word "Family"
Study of the word "Happiness"
Related words in folklore.
The role of stress in Russian.

Topics of projects on the World around the 2nd grade

Actual topics of research projects on the world around the 2nd grade:

Names of the native land
History in the names of the cities of the world.
History in the names of rivers, seas, oceans.
How my family has a rest in the summer.
The world of our hobbies
Monuments of the city
Streets of our city.
Spring holidays
Guests from distant countries.
Wild animals of our region.
Pets
Healthy lifestyle.
Green window sill.
Winter fun
Games of our grandparents.
Games with a family theme: to the house, to mothers and daughters. nine0005 Sources of noise around us.
Red Book
My daily routine
My family tree.
Museum of my countryman
Our family album.
Useful alphabet of food
The past in the names of cities in Russia.
Rare plants
Home cooking recipes.
Seasonal games of the peoples of different regions of Russia and the world.
Family travel
Traffic light country
Carnivores and herbivores
Whose name is my street?

Technology and Art project topics for grade 2

Making toys from strips of paper.
Historical costume.
How man explores space.
New Year's workshop.
From cart to car.
Beaded bracelet
Beads for a snow woman
Spring still life
Defender of the Fatherland Day.
Victory Day.
Birthday in our class.
Winter, trees and snowstorm
Feeding trough for bullfinches
Maslenitsa.
My favorite children's magazine
Dairy story
Table Christmas tree
New Year's mask
Origami
Postcard for mom.
Postcard for dad
Pumpkin candlestick.
Antique crockery (plasticine molding).
Creating a collage "My Motherland".
DIY decoration.
Fantasy from acorns.
Filimonov toy.
8 March.

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