Sight word ideas

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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4.

Make a mini book

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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10.

Start a sight word band

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.

Source: @makeitmultisensory

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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29.

Spell words with toy cars

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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36.

Dot-paint words with a cotton swab

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.

Source: @laurens_lil_learners

45. Play muffin tin ball toss

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

Source: @homeschooling_fun_with_lynda

46. DIY sentence flash cards

Authentic use of words in context for the win.

Source: @teachertipsandtales

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?

40+ Fun Ways to Practice Sight Words

The challenge with teaching sight words is that children need so much repetition – and that can get boring. So having a big list of fun ways to practice sight words can help you keep your students engaged longer.

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If you teach kindergarten, then you probably already know that sight words are a big step in early literacy. Yes, phonics is critical too, but learning how to read some common words instantly really helps kids hit the ground running!

Of course, you want to make sure children are really ready to learn sight words so that no one gets frustrated.

These sight word practice ideas are sure to make work time feel more playful! Even better, many of these are multi-sensory activities – which we know actually help children learn better.

Write the Words in Fun Ways

Trace the word on a sand, kinetic sand, or salt tray.
Trace laminated sight word cards with finger paint or shaving cream (less mess than paint!).
Go outside and write words with sidewalk chalk
Or, stay inside and write the words on an easel or whiteboard. Dry erase markers make everything more interesting!
Write or trace the words with glitter markers, scented markers, etc.
Print off these cute worksheets and rainbow write the words!
Write the words on a Magna Doodle magnetic drawing board.

Build Sight Words with Hands-On Materials

Use playdough to build words.
Build words with letter tiles, blocks, or alphabet beads.
Use magnetic letters to spell out sight words.
“Write” out the words with letter stamps.
Create words out of dried macaroni and spaghetti, alphabet shaped pasta, or even letter shaped cookies.

Gross Motor Sight Word Practice Ideas

Active children learn well when they can move around. Plus, providing lots of opportunities for physical activity helps them stay engaged and interested in learning.

Here are some ideas that could work in a larger classroom or nearby hallway:

Set up a sight word scavenger hunt where kids have to find the words and read them aloud.

Make a sight word bean bag toss game: place words on the floor and try to toss a beanbag onto them. Read the words as part of playing.
Try having kids jump over to the words on the floor instead of tossing a beanbag onto them.
Play a matching game with 2 identical decks of word cards. Keep the first deck in a stack on one side of the classroom. Then, on the other side of the room, spread out all of the cards from the other deck. Students draw a card, read it, then walk across the room to find its match. Repeat until each sight word card has a match.
Play a balancing game where students walk across a long strip of masking tape on the floor. Place word cards along the line for children to stop and read. Encourage them to use their imaginations and pretend they’re walking across a log bridge, tightrope, etc.
Pretend to write the word in the air with their finger as a “pen. ”

Imaginative Play Sight Word Practice

When attention is lagging, some kids may respond to using imaginative play in their sight word practice!

Have dolls, stuffed animals, or action figures “search” for certain sight words. (Ages ago my kids practiced sight words with toy animals).
Similarly, you can have toy vehicles drive around to read and collect sight word flashcards.

Give the child puppets to read out words. It’s fun to ready your words in a silly voice!
Play police or fire dispatcher: say something like “there’s an emergency at the word have“! Then the child races to find that word card and pretend to help.
Involve the kids in inventing a simple sight word game with favorite themes or characters.

Musical Sight Words

A quick search on youtube will bring you lots of sight word songs. Jack Hartman’s high-energy interactive songs are super popular. If you want some sweet, calming sight word songs, then Molly Songs may be for you:

You can also just make up songs on the fly using familiar tunes and popular songs.

If you want your students to focus more on the sounds of each letter, and notice which words are irregular – a la Science of Reading – then you might like this newer playlist that I found from Nitty Gritty Phonics. There is more silly/engaging acting than singing, and the production value isn’t as high, but I think the educational value is fantastic.

Practice with Sight Word Apps

Practicing sight words with an app can be another easy way to keep kids interested in learning.

Some popular sight word apps include:

ABC Mouse (ad)
Reading Eggs
Learn Sight Words (ipad, iphone only)
Sight Words from RV App Studios

You can also practice with Boom Cards, which are wonderful because they can give teachers data about exactly which words students are struggling with.

Hands-On Sight Word Worksheets

Sight word worksheets don’t have to be boring. Many good ones incorporate interesting materials, such as dot markers, stamp markers, etc.

Here are a few from this site and in my store that you might like:

Easy Prep Sight Word Center Activities

You also can print off and prepare cute sight word puzzles, feed the sight word activities, and more.

Swat the Sight Word
Sight Word Fishing Game
Popsicle Stick Sight Word Puzzles
Feed the Cow Sight Word Activity

In conclusion, young children can practice sight words in so many ways! You really don’t need to bore them with flashcards and drills. They’ll learn by having fun!

8 Computer Vision Case Studies

1. Self-Driving Vehicles

The largest computer vision stands belong to the automotive industry. After all, self-driving and semi-autonomous car technologies work, in large part, thanks to computer vision.

NVIDIA, which has already made great strides in the field of deep learning, is used in many self-driving cars. For example, the NVIDIA Drive PX 2 supercomputer already serves as the base platform for Tesla, Volvo, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz drones.

NVIDIA's DriveNet artificial perception technology is a self-learning computer vision powered by neural networks. With its help, lidars, radars, cameras and ultrasonic sensors are able to recognize the environment, road markings, vehicles and much more.

NVIDIA and Audi plan to bring the first fully autonomous car to the track in 2020, which will use the new Xavier AI supercomputer.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Sang Huang introduces AI Co Pilot. Photo: NVIDIA

NVIDIA also introduced Co Pilot artificial intelligence, which is able to recognize faces, lip movements, gaze direction and language - which will make driving a car more convenient. So, for example, by recognizing the movement of the lips, the computer will better understand the spoken words, and the ability to capture the direction of gaze (analysis of the eyes, face and position of the head) will help not only determine if the driver has fallen asleep, but also save in difficult situations when a person does not notice danger, such as a motorcyclist approaching from behind in the center of the road. As far as lip reading is concerned, networks using deep learning are now able to recognize speech with an accuracy of 95%, while a person recognizes it with an accuracy of 3%. Now this incredible ability is being used to improve speech recognition in a car, namely in noisy situations.

2. Personalization

In the future, facial recognition technology will improve the personalization of your vehicle. Chrysler Portal Concept Car With the help of computer vision, the car can instantly determine the identity of the driver before they even get into the car, and download their favorite songs, adjust the seat to the desired position, adjust the temperature, and so on. The car can recognize not only the driver, but also passengers, and in the same way automatically adjust the seats and temperature, and even open noise-canceling "cocoons" in which you can listen to your favorite music. Such abilities will not only appeal to car owners, but could also greatly influence ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft.

3. Interfaces

Eye tracking technology using computer vision is used not only in gaming laptops, but also in ordinary and corporate computers, so that they can be controlled by people who cannot use their hands. The Tobii Dynavox PCEye Mini is the size of a ballpoint pen and is the perfect discreet accessory for tablets and laptops. This eye-tracking technology is also used in new Asus gaming and regular laptops and Huawei smartphones.

Meanwhile, gesture control (computer vision technology that can recognize specific hand movements) continues to evolve. It will now be used in future BMW and Volkswagen vehicles.

Photo: BMW

The new HoloActive Touch interface allows users to control virtual 3D screens and press buttons in space. We can say that it is a simple version of the real Iron Man holographic interface (it even reacts in the same way with a slight vibration to the pressing of elements). With technologies like ManoMotion, it will be easy to add gesture control to almost any device. Moreover, to gain control over a virtual 3D object using gestures, ManoMotion uses a regular 2D camera, so you do not need any additional equipment.

eyeSight's Singlecue Gen 2 uses computer vision (gesture recognition, face analysis, action detection) and allows you to control your TV, smart lighting system and refrigerators with gestures.

Hayo

Hayo's crowdfunding project is perhaps the most interesting new interface. This technology allows you to create virtual controls throughout your home - simply by raising or lowering your hand, you can increase or decrease the volume of music, or turn on the light in the kitchen by waving your hand over the countertop. It all works thanks to a cylindrical device that uses computer vision, as well as an integrated camera and 3D, infrared and motion sensors.

4.

Home Appliances

Expensive cameras that show you what's inside your refrigerator don't seem so revolutionary anymore. But what about an app that analyzes the image from your fridge's built-in camera and tells you when you're running out of certain foods?

Photo: Smarter

Smarter's elegant FridgeCam device attaches to the wall of the refrigerator and can detect when the expiration date is due, tell you exactly what is in the refrigerator, and even recommend recipes from selected products. The device is sold at an unexpectedly affordable price - just $100.

5. Digital signage

Computer vision can change the way banners and advertisements look in shops, museums, stadiums and amusement parks.

At the Panasonic booth, a demo version of flag projection technology was presented. With the help of infrared markers that are invisible to the human eye and video stabilization, this technology can project advertisements onto hanging banners and even flags fluttering in the wind. Moreover, the image will look as if it is really printed on them.

6. Smartphones and augmented reality

Pokemon Go has been described by many as the first mainstream augmented reality (AR) app. However, like other apps trying to hop on an AR train, this game made more use of GPS and triangulation to give users the impression that the object was right in front of them. Smartphones usually do not use real computer vision technologies at all.

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However, in November, Lenovo released the Phab2, the first smartphone to support Google Tango technology. This technology is a combination of sensors and computer vision software that can recognize images, videos and the world in real time using a camera lens.

Photo: Lenovo

At CES, Asus debuted the ZenPhone AR, a Tango and Daydream VR-enabled smartphone from Google, for the first time. The smartphone not only can track movements, analyze the environment and accurately determine the position, but also uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor, which allows you to distribute the load of computer vision data. All this helps to apply real augmented reality technologies, which actually analyze the situation through the smartphone camera.

Changhong h3, the first smartphone with a built-in molecular scanner, will be released later this year. It collects the light that is reflected from the object and splits it into a spectrum, and then analyzes its chemical composition. Thanks to computer vision software, the information obtained can be used for a variety of purposes, from prescribing medications and counting calories to determining the condition of the skin and calculating the level of fatness.

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7. Cameras

The main use of computer vision is in cameras - this is how smart cameras with new abilities exceed human capabilities.

FLiR Systems has produced several cameras with heat sensors. The FLIR Duo and Duo R devices look like a GoPro or other action camera. They can be attached to any drone and track heat in a variety of business and domestic situations, such as detecting a leak in roof insulation or conducting aerial topographic surveys of fields and oil fields.

8. Robots

Even Amazon's Alexa, Google Home, and other digital assistants and robots available on the market, such as Mayfield Robotics' LG Hub and Kuri, have basic computer vision skills and can detect who is talking to them, or else kick the dog off the couch.

Photo: heykuri.com

But seriously, ITRI has developed the Intelligent Vision System, which uses deep learning and computer vision to enable robots to distinguish between objects of different sizes (figurines, cups) and determine their position. Having recognized the object, the robot will be able to take it and bring it to the right place. Such skills would be great for serving tables in a restaurant or playing chess.

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Art books about vision and eyes

In this article we will tell you:

Alexander Grin "Fighter"
Vladimir Nabokov Camera Obscura
Vladimir Korolenko "The Blind Musician"
Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre"
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
George Orwell "1984"
John Wyndham "Day of the Triffids"
Harry Potter JK Rowling
Stephen King "Inflammatory Gaze"
A Song of Ice and Fire George R. R. Martin
J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Mariam Petrosyan "The house in which..."
Eyes are the mirror of the soul

Many books have been written about vision, eyes and lenses. We tell you what you can read or listen to if you are interested in this topic.

To enjoy your favorite book without harming your eyes, follow the simple rules of safe reading.

In the story of a Russian prose writer, artist and philosopher, a mystical force is described that miraculously sinks warships off the coast of New Zealand.

Giram, captain of one of the schooners in the stricken fleet, learns of a mysterious monastery inhabited by 13 blind monks. Gradually, the secret of the destruction of the navy is revealed to readers: it turns out that it is the blind monks who are responsible for the death of the ships, after which they bitterly regret what they have done.

The authorship of Alexander Grin belongs to several more stories about eyes and vision: “The Tale of the Blind Fish”, “Terrible Vision”, “Blind Day Canet”.

The protagonist of the novel, art critic Kretschmar, loses his sight in a car accident. His young lover Magda uses the blindness of a man for her own purposes and secretly maintains a relationship with the artist Gorn. But the girl does not suspect that, against the background of the injury, Kretschmar's other sense has become aggravated - hearing.

Passion, jealousy, lies and betrayal intertwined in this complex love triangle. Heroes succumb to momentary desires, turning a blind eye to morality and social norms. It is difficult to imagine what such a difficult relationship can lead to for the heroes.

Critics called Camera Obscura is Nabokov's most cinematic novel. In 1969, British director Tony Richardson filmed the novel. He went on the big screen under the title "Laughter in the Dark."

Petrik was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy noble family. And not lucky enough to be completely blind. A difficult life awaits the boy, in which every new day is a real test, full of fears and dangers. The only thing that truly pleases the hero is music. He admires the playing of the groom Joachim on the pipe and dreams of becoming a musician.

As he grows older, Peter faces new difficulties that sighted people do not have. Will he be able to make his dream come true? Will his personal life work out? Will he be angry at the whole world because of his misfortune?

Korolenko subtly conveys the fears and experiences of a person who has never seen the beauty of the world around.

Beloved of the main character, Edward Rochester, almost died in a fire. In the fire, he lost his right hand and became completely blind.

Jane Eyre becomes the eyes and hands of a man - she helps him move and perform daily activities, talks about what is happening around, supports and consoles. Thanks to the girl's love and care, the hero's vision begins to recover, and over time, he returns to normal life.

Charlotte Bronte describes in detail the difficult life of a person who has lost the ability to see the world. At the same time, she shows that the love and care of loved ones can save even from such injuries.

The English author described an unusual method of "curing" criminals of sadistic tendencies. The book's protagonist, Alex, is forced to watch movies of fights and murders to the accompaniment of classical music. To prevent the prisoner from closing his eyes, his eyelids are fixed with special devices. Alex admits: "Even squinting the pupils to the side, I could not take them away from the line of fire of this film."

It is believed that after such "therapy" the former criminal will not be able to commit illegal acts. The eyes in this novel are considered not just as a sense organ, but as one of the ways to influence the moral character and behavior of a person.

"Big brother is watching you!" - these are the words that haunt the main character of the dystopian novel, Winston Smith. The theme of surveillance, espionage, spying is repeated from episode to episode.

The author of the anti-utopia tells how the ruling party follows people, controlling all areas of their lives. Big Brother himself - the sole leader of the party - appears in the novel only sporadically, while his "eyes" are present almost everywhere. These are the ruler's loyal spies - secret thought police officers who are ready to imprison anyone who has illegal ideas.

The novel describes the distant future. Triffids are bred on our planet - predatory plants with sensitive hearing and the rudiments of the mind.

The protagonist of the work, biochemist Bill Mason, becomes a victim of a triffid and ends up in the hospital. This circumstance saves him from another misfortune - starfall, due to which people begin to lose their eyesight en masse.

Bill and a small group of other survivors will have to save humanity from triffids who have felt freedom.

In the Wizard Boy series of novels, the theme of sight is brought up several times. The protagonist himself wears glasses - he has myopia, which he inherited from his father James. Many other characters in the work also wear glasses - Sibyl Trelawney, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Percy Weasley.

Apparently, in the world of sorcerers and wizards, it is more difficult to correct vision than in ours!

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The heroine of the novel is the girl Charlie, who has the gift of pyrokinesis. She is able to light a fire with the power of thought and gaze.

Charlie is being hunted by the "Office" - a secret organization that conducts experiments on people. Fleeing from dangerous agents, the girl and her father are forced to hide and move from one city to another.

Stephen King, who is deservedly called the "modern king of horror", shows what a high price one sometimes has to pay for the possession of a unique gift.

The author of the well-known cycle of fantasy novels did not bypass the theme of vision. Some of his heroes have unique eye colors. These are, for example, Melisandre, the "red woman", and Euron Greyjoy, nicknamed "Crow's Eye".

The former has piercing, bright red eyes, while the latter wears an eyepatch that covers one eye. The fantastic monstrous creatures of the White Walkers also have unusual bright blue eyes.

One of the main characters in the novel, Daenerys Targaryen, has purple eyes. This detail immediately hints to the reader that he has a central character in front of him, whose life he will have to follow throughout the story.

By the way, Yennefer from Vengerberg, the beloved of the witcher from the novel by Andrzej Sapkowski, has a similar eye color - violet.

The main villain of the fantasy epic Sauron has the All-Seeing Eye, which has a direct connection with the Dark Lord himself. A huge fiery eye symbolizes the power and strength of the villain, his ability to see and control everything that happens in the world.

Galadriel is the last Elf to see the light of the Trees of Valinor. Therefore, her eyes have the ability to reflect the stars. The eyes of another character - the wizard Gandalf - the author compared with two lights, ready to flare up with a bright flame at any second.

As in Game of Thrones, the eyes of the characters emphasize their uniqueness and importance in the overall narrative.

The Armenian writer tells about the life of disabled children who, for various reasons, ended up in a special boarding school.

Among the pupils of the institution there is Blind. The boy is blind from birth, which does not prevent him from being incredibly dexterous, strong, hardy and wise in his own way. It is the Blind who becomes the leader of the House and a mentor for many children.

Eyes are the mirror of the soul

The eyes are not just an organ of vision. This is our connection with the outside world and other people, a reflection of mood and character.