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The Best Sight Word Videos that will Engage Every Student
Videos are a truly engaging way to teach and reinforce skills that require a ton of repetition and practice to master. When I think lots of repetition: I think SIGHT WORDS. Can we ever have enough practice? I rounded up the best sight word videos so that you don’t have to!
Quickly recognizing and reading sight words and high frequency words is such an important skill for new readers. The most common 100 sight words make up 50% of any text! For our new readers, that percentage is much, much higher.
Teaching sight words and high frequency words can be challenging because it requires so much repetition. We practice and practice (and practice some more), and even then, some students still don’t quite grasp it.
Then one day, as if a switch has been turned on, they remember them! It’s kind of a magical process. 🦄
But I know it can be exhausting (and frustrating), too. These videos are meant to supplement other sight word instruction to add another layer to your instruction. No matter what list you use, there are videos here to help you out. 👏
Note: Did you know there is a difference between sight words and high frequency words? You can read more about that here!
Miss Molly’s Sight Word Videos Playlist
I think of Miss Molly as the queen of sight word videos. ? This playlist has SEVENTY ONE sight word songs! 😳🥳
Each one covers a different sight word. Each video says the word and spells it several times. It also puts the word into several sentences with visuals.
I especially love these videos because the music is very calming so it won’t hype kids up. 😅 Miss Molly is a go-to for me in my classroom!
Heidi Songs Sight Word Videos Playlist
Like Miss Molly, Heidi Songs has a ton of sight word videos. This playlist has 32 sight words songs that students enjoy to sing and dance along with.
The videos spell the word, say the word alone and in a sentence several times. There are fun actions that go along with the words and they are very catchy. (So catchy, you may find yourself lying awake at night with them running through your head. 🤪)
Meet the Sight Words
Preschool Prep Company has several sight word videos on YouTube that my students really enjoy.
The one I have linked is a 30 minute video that I show in pieces as we learn new words in my classroom. It introduces and reinforces several of the most common sight words.
Each word has a short video that lasts about 45 seconds. The letters of the word make up part of the picture and are characters in the shorts story. While the word is said over and over again, it is never spelled out verbally or put into a sentence.
I build understanding by asking my students why the word is doing that action or in that place. In that way, this video is more of an interactive experience in my classroom.
For example, the word “play” is playing baseball. Students can make the connection between the word and what it is doing. I also ask them to look at the word and spell it.
The Sight Word Song
Harry Kindergarten’s sight word song is a favorite for many.
The song is catchy, it spells the word and reads it.
This song covers many of the most common sight words so students get the repetition that will help them memorize the words. My kids love, love, love to sing along with this song.
New Sight Words with Jack Hartmann
This Jack Hartmann videos shows the letters, says them and then says the word. It pauses the second time through so that students have the chance to read the word on their own.
Kids love this silly video and it’s catchy tune. They will have the words in it memorized in no time!
Sight Word Rap with Jack Hartmann
This Jack Hartmann video is similar to the previous one but with a different tune and different words! He says the letters and then reads the words.
It says the word several times as the word flashes on the screen giving great repetition.
If you students are like mine, they will think Jack Hartmann “rapping” is HILARIOUS and super silly. They’ll also pick it up really quick and rap it back and forth to each other. 😅
Kindergarten High Frequency Words
I think this video is a.dor.a.ble. It is a teacher made video with students reading a word and then saying it in a sentence. The words are on the screen as well so students can see them.
My students LOVE hearing other kids reading to them. The first time we watched this video, they were in awe. When I told them we could make a video just like it, they were super excited.
We made our own video in the spring once we had a good handle on many sight words. Each student chose a word and created a simple sentence for them. I typed each word and sentence on it’s own slide in a powerpoint.
If you want to make a video like this, it is really easy! All you have to do is create a powerpoint, video the powerpoint and let the students read the words.
This list of videos includes many of my student’s favorite videos as well as channels that have tons of videos for individual sight words. Did I include your favorite? Let me know below! 👇
Do you need hands on practice for your students, too? I know the lists of words and number that need to be memorized varies hugely from district to district and from state to state.
That’s why I created this super magical resource! These Editable Sight Word Printables can be customized to any list without any formatting or special fonts downloaded. All you do is type your words and 10 different activities are immediately generated! Like I said: magical! 🦄
Sight Words - Free Interactive Videos • Engaging Sight Word Practice
Did you know that about 75% of what we read is comprised of sight words? These free interactive sight word videos will aid in building this all-important reading foundation.
It is imperative that kids master reading sight words with automaticity. There are tons of interactive educational videos to aid with teaching these all-important sight words. It is imperative that students commit these words to memory. The quicker they can recall these words when reading the more effortless reading becomes. Giving kids a list of words to recite over and over is just not the best way to get these tricky words to stick. However, add movement and music and something magical begins to happen!
Why are music and movement are important?
Ever notice that even as adults how quickly we can recall the lyrics of a song, including songs from our youth? Think about how quick children are to memorize fingerplays, chants, and rhymes. The use of a little music and movement makes these far more memorable! This same thing occurs for children when learning nearly anything. Just some simple movement and music act like educational glue for young learners. Below are a few of the more popular free videos for teaching sight words.
Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel
Jack Hartman has free interactive videos for teaching sight words and so much more! His collection of ‘Jump Out Words videos is great for adding movement while teaching sight words. There are 4 different videos or volumes for teaching 4 different sets of sight words. Kids do various movements like, roll their arms or twist, as they say, spell, say the words along with Jack throughout the videos. The movement switches up throughout the video.
Volume 1 Jump out Word
Jack Hartmann’s Sight Word Rap collection is another fun and free way to practice sight words. The first time through students will spell and say the word with Jack. The second time they spell the word with Jack and then they say the word independently. The third time students will spell and say the word independently and then say the sight word three times for practice. Kids love the funky beats, and the opportunity to use silly voices while learning sight words with these free educational videos.
Sight Word Rap Volume 1
Have Fun Teaching also has some great free interactive music videos for teaching sight words. The catchy tunes paired with these videos make learning sight words entertaining! Have Fun Teaching presents sight words in a variety of ways to help keep kids from getting bored and extend their learning along the way! They have videos for individual sight words, videos with multiple sight words, and sight words used in sentences.
Primer Sight Word List – Includes all Primer Sight Words – The Videos Show the word, Spell the word, then follows up by using it in a sentence all to catchy music.
Sight Word Video – Come
The individual sight word videos each repeat the word with fun music, then spell it repeatedly, and finally display and use it in a sentence. All with a pause for kids to repeat it with the music.
Harry Kindergarten has exciting Hip Sight Word Songs and Videos for the K-2 Classroom. He is a full-time Kindergarten teacher who knows how important Sight Words are for beginning readers.
He is aware of what is required to entertain while teaching such eager minds and active bodies!
The Sight Word Song (Version 1)
Reading Robot
These energetic videos include a fun little mouse sidekick to cheer the kids on to fun music as they listen, repeat, and read the sight words. After a brief practice of several words, the words appear in a big speech bubble for kids to attempt to read on their own. ELF has 4 videos that include 25 sight words per video. I have added a small stuffed mouse as a mascot in my classroom to use with the videos. The kids get excited when ‘he’ comes out to ‘practice’ those important words!
25 Sight Words for Kindergarten #1
These interactive sight word videos have a fun surprise built right into them! Students repeat the displayed sight words. Then, after so many sight words there’s a ‘surprise’! The word ‘dance’ pops up, and fun dance music plays so the kids can freestyle dance until the next word is displayed. A fun brain break is already included within this groovy sight word practice.
Sight words are provided for grades Pre-K through First Grade. They also have a similarly styled video set that matches the Fry Sight Word Lists.
Kindergarten Sight Word Video
First Grade Sight Word Video
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11 YouTube videos that turn our kids into zombies.
Dangerous experiment of Inna Priborya - watching children's videos on YouTube! Children who once learned what YouTube is, fall into a kind of "narnia" - now they are ready to watch for hours on repeat how others unpack kinder surprises, stick to animated series and listen to stupid songs that cannot be put out of their heads. Inna Pribora found out why the video service is so addictive for young children.
In an attempt to find out where the pure eyes of childhood are directed, the author looks into the abyss, and the abyss sings a nasal song in response.
Many progressive parents are sure that banning gadgets with "funny children's videos" is something from the repertoire of the Luddites (who protested against the industrial revolution in England in the 19th century - Ed.). Firstly, the child should have a choice, and he chooses Pepsi - that is, YouTube. Secondly, you need to somehow navigate in the streams of “babies”, but how to learn if parents deprive you of the spectacle.
Third, the potential benefits of YouTube channels cannot be denied. They still teach something there: counting, new words, how to be friends with a good truck - it's all for the good of the child, everything is better than hanging around behind garages. And it’s just convenient to turn on the channel - no one yells, runs around, asks to find in a huge pile “here’s the same Lego piece, but white”.
YouTube has over a billion people. And a significant proportion of consumers of grunting content are children under 12 years old, in any case, “lunts with mash-and-bears” are firmly in the top views.
In 2016, Google launched the YouTube Kids video service in Russia as well. In theory, this thing helps to strengthen parental control and offers specially selected content to the young viewer. In any case, you can be sure that at the request of "shark" not bloodied pieces of people will come out, but cartoons like "Nano-shark ate a critter". Although it is not yet known which is worse.
Just in case, I removed the younger ones from the screen and sat down to watch all the best for the children.
At the top, the service has icons: "Recommended", "Overview", "Training", "Show". As soon as you click on the first video that comes across, the system adds similar videos to the "Recommended" and already knows what to offer you next time. In any case, the song that I chose (and immediately regretted it) was offered to me by the service on other days, and at the same time included in the auto-view mode.
Hell songs
The song I'm talking about is a playful, supposedly educational composition in which food is slipped to painted children with a leading question: "Do you like pizza?" (Someone behind the scenes yells: “Yes!”) “Do you like condensed milk?” ("Yes!"). And then an unexpected move: "What about pizza with condensed milk?" In the frame, condensed milk is poured onto the pizza, the painted child frowns. Behind the scenes, the chorus suggests what to say in such a case: “Fu! Byaka! Although why not immediately teach children to speak humanly, for example, "No, thank you!".
And in general, that's all ... Then even cottage cheese with herring appears there, but there are no other answers for all seven minutes.
The calculation is correct. Familiar food, unexpected mix of products, unpretentious animation, simple music: perky and funny - haha, sausage in yogurt.
In general, there are a lot of questions about speech exercises: well, a normal person cannot listen to rhymes like “In a wooden place everyone plays together” without damaging their aesthetic canons. I don’t know what you were thinking, but I have gloomy associations here, like the face of Edgar Allan Poe.
Doubtful educational cartoons ("Woods - round cubes")
In the "Education" section, YouTube offers an educational cartoon: wooden animals on wheels are chasing around the frame, the voice rhymes "Lumbers - round cubes" off-screen. Then come the words that, apparently, were remembered by the authors from the nursery group: “Let's stomp our feet, clap our hands!”.
Unfortunately, the animals have neither legs nor arms, they can only bounce helplessly on wooden wheels. The name of the horse is Igo-go, the Dog is Woof-woof, the Baby Elephant is Doo-Doo, and this educational moment could have ended, but the heroes honestly then build a house out of cubes and hint in every possible way that they lack a triangle.
If the viewer guesses about the triangle before the dog on wheels, he will feel like a competent person - another reason to stay close to the screen. At the end, for some reason, the song turns on again, which invites everyone to "have fun" and "make friends" with some nonsense.
Actually, these two words could become the motto of all children's content, if you add one more word to them - "unpack".
Unpacking hundreds of kinders and anything in general
Here is a boy and his dad unpacking a new toy in a box - a black widow spider on radio control. The viewer gets his moments of delight when he watches how the remote control, sealed with adhesive tape, is unwound, and a toy is taken out of the box.
Everything happens to the joyful offscreen exclamations of the pope: “Well, what kind of spider is there?”, “That's how big it is!”. Spoiler ahead: the toy animal's eyes glow and it races across the floor in different directions. In the domestic segment of YouTube, the Mister Max channel is in 13th place in terms of popularity - more than five million subscribers. The main job that the network star, the boy Max, has to do is unpacking toys.
Children are ready to watch endlessly how others get into boxes with gifts, open hundreds of eggs with kinder surprises in a row and show what is inside. And although ordinary plastic unicorns are hiding inside, the secret effect works: show any of us an object covered with a handkerchief, and we will definitely want to know what is hidden there. In addition, the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is released into the brain when we anticipate pleasure, works here too. He makes the guys rejoice at someone else's happiness and watch how some girls take out of paper vigorous pink cosmetic sets, dressing tables and other delights, from which it is customary to take children away from the store.
It's no surprise that unboxing has become such a hot topic when the iPhone X Unboxing video has received over five million views in six days. It seems that children have someone to grow into.
Color learning with plasticine and Dr. Plusheva
The "let's take it apart and see what's inside" technique is widely used in the production of children's videos. For example, they offer me to “learn colors” along with Play Doh. The camera shows a light background, jars of modeling clay and a few rolled balls. Women's hands appear, open the plasticine and happily take out small figurines of cartoon characters. "Well, what's inside? It's a hedgehog! Look how wonderful he is!” the voice from the screen admires. In fact, an unprepared viewer may have questions. Why was there a hedgehog inside the plasticine? What was he doing there? And why is everything happening next? Plasticine is rolled out with a rolling pin, pressed with a mold and multi-colored pancake machines are obtained in a row.
What should this exciting story teach? Picking out hedgehogs? Color names?
It is unlikely that anyone has seen a person after eight years who would not be familiar with the names of the primary colors. But judging by the number of videos dedicated to this problem, it is really acute for humanity.
The Disney Coloring Pages channel introduces a video about Doctor Plusheva. There is an action-packed cartoon: toy crocodiles got free, now they will get close to a creature that looks like a sheep. But suddenly the screen turns black and white and individual fragments begin to fill with paint, the voiceover calmly lists: "Purple, red, beige" ... With fright, you can decide that this is happening so as not to injure the audience with the scene of the meeting with the crocodile, but no - this trick created just to teach you colors. The drama unfolds: a terrible voice reaches the girl from the floor: “They bit off my legs!”. The heroine laughs in response: "Haha, you're a snowman, you don't have legs!"
Although it must be admitted that children's YouTube is trying to develop tolerance for those who are not like everyone else.
Children's videos that teach tolerance
The collection, excuse me, "Kukutiki" ("The biggest. All series in a row!") Has over nine million views. Children, dressed like flyer distributors in foam rubber, sing kind and sweet songs. But first, try singing along with the intro to remember the title. “We are coo-coo-coo-cookies! We are called Kukutiki! the boys insist.
The song that the service offered me teaches how to interact with children with children with disabilities. Their role in the frame is played by cute cartoon bear cubs and rabbits. The text tells us that “one kid can’t hear”, but “this kid doesn’t see, but, of course, he won’t offend”, and here – “the kid can’t walk, his legs don’t go”. And how is it proposed to interact with such guys? "Don't be afraid, he's good, wave to him!" Or like this: “You stroke it with your hand” ... While I was trying to comprehend this rather controversial recipe, the kukutiki summed up: “Someone is black, someone is white, someone doesn’t know how to do something .
.. let me and you smile.”
While the viewer is smiling, they have a chance to watch the 30-second cartoon “Pocoyo teaches. Children's rights. Equality". Agree, the title sets you in a serious mood. But instead of a painted Martin Luther King, strange one-eyed creatures run onto the stage, one of them sings loudly and drowns out the others. A pink elephant and a boy appear from behind the scenes, waving their hands at the troublemaker. After that, the song goes on smoothly.
Video about all kinds of cars
For some reason I click on a blue tractor with eyes, and it starts to sing. “I’ll tell you guys what an excavator is. Look, it's him. And he is handsome and strong.” The lyrics of the song sound entertaining, like in a “shop on a couch”, but again there are some problems with the rhyme: “An excavator will help us dig the earth with a shovel ... Its bucket is so big. It is very good."
It is clear that without this clip, many children will simply never learn about the excavator, and you can forgive the simple text.
Next comes "Lev's Truck", a project made by professionals: the cartoon scored 1.3 billion views on the "TV Kids" channel. In this series, the truck itself assembles the cash register. "Oh, look who's driving down the path? It's Lev's truck!" — an off-screen female voice enthusiastically talks to both the viewer and the hero of the film, at the same time tells about the device of the cash register.
Some more educational videos (learning colors again!)
Having got tired of technology with headlight eyes, the viewer has a chance to continue his journey through the world of "educational" videos. Somehow, an hour and a half video “Styles and Epochs. How to Navigate Classical Art. The lecture was recorded from somewhere in the back rows of the hall, and the speaker does not show how she picks open the plasticine and does not say in different voices: “Hurrah! Who is this on our path?!"
In general, this video is unlikely to become a hit for children's YouTube, unlike the Microwave candy playset for children.
A small figurine of Mickey Mouse, along with a pink balloon, is placed in the microwave. After a couple of seconds, a new amazing thing is taken out of it - a stick on which Mickey Mouse's head is impaled. This magical spectacle is designed to teach children - what? - that's right, the names of colors.
Feeling overwhelmed by such powerful educational work, you can switch to reviews.
Family vloggers
The system offers to watch the clip "Hi, Bianca!", in which baby Bianca, together with his mother, vlogger Masha Kapuki and brother Adrian, flies to the sea. The luggage is checked by a doll who does not like that they forgot to put a night light with music and rubber duckies in the suitcase. Bianca's mom shows how she collects nipples. In part of the video, the child is sleeping, and Adrian's brother is playing on the phone. The most acute experience is finding out what is served on the plane for lunch.
YouTube Kids is a good thing in the sense that it allows a parent to do their best to interfere with what the child is watching.
Although, even if you put a bunch of filters, you need to understand that, most likely, right now the child is watching something strange: a video where giant chocolate eggs are unpacked, they are looking for a “suit” for a baby, or they sing to the accompaniment of the sounds of a Chinese slot machine.
No illusions about educational videos. Even if a child ever manages to flash the knowledge that there are "buttons" in a cash register, spending time on a real machine will be a much more valuable experience. Or better - try to sit next to the child yourself and stand for at least 20 minutes. You will definitely have something to talk about.
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How the children's song Baby Shark became the most watched video on YouTube for three years. Where did the catchy track about the shark family come from and why did it become so popular - in the material of Gazeta.Ru.
Clip Baby Shark [rus. "Shark"] for the four years of its existence on YouTube has gained over 7 billion views.
Such a huge number of views officially makes the children's video the most popular video hosting YouTube.
A video for children about the adventures of a shark family has become a real meme, and at the same time a new YouTube record holder. Previously, the first place in views for three years belonged to the video for the song "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. At the moment, Despacito takes an honorable second place. Next in the YouTube top 10 are clips of Ed Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Bruno Mars and a couple more children's songs.
However, the origin of Baby Shark remains a big mystery.
The version from Korean entertainment company Pinkfong that went viral on YouTube is not the original. At the same time, as the portal Vulture notes, many Americans claim that they have known this song since childhood - they mostly heard it in children's camps and other places where counselors or educators needed to somehow entertain their pupils.
The prevalence of Baby Shark among children was facilitated by a simple melody and simple dance moves that can be repeated after the animator.
The very first recorded version of Baby Shark to appear on YouTube is a video by Pete Wigent uploaded in 2008.
Unlike Pinkfong's version, Vigent's version has some bloodthirsty plot twists in the text - in particular, the phrases "lose a leg" appear there [rus. "lose a leg"] and "lose a head" [Rus. "lose your head" It is assumed that you need to be prepared for this when meeting with sharks.
Vigent claims that this song was taught to him by a girl in 2001 when he was working at the camp. Then he thought about recording all the children's camp songs he knew. The most viewed of all was exactly Baby Shark.
In 2011, another video with alternative text appeared.
Justin Jim Morar added a religious dimension to the song.
After a failed rescue attempt, an unfortunate swimmer is about to see Jesus for help. Morar states that he learned the song at a church camp in 1999.
“Then I became a youth director and taught songs to youth groups at conferences. One of the teenagers wrote me a message asking how to sing the song, so I made this video so that the audience would recognize the lyrics,” says Morar.
In 2007 the song became a hit in Europe as well. In Germany, Alexandra Müller performed Kleiner Hai [rus. "Little Shark"] went viral thanks to the screams of a swimmer being attacked by a predator and a reference to the music from the movie "Jaws" in the background.
The singer herself says that she has been singing the German version of Baby Shark on New Year's Eve for more than 20 years and does not know where it came from.
“This is a popular children's song in Germany. We never found out where it came from, ”Müller notes. According to her, the text of Baby Shark is not protected by copyright.
Another Johnny Only artist covered Baby Shark in 2011.
At the same time, despite the fact that this song is essentially a folk art, Johnny Only decided to sue Pinkfong for copyright infringement. Johnny is certain that Pinkfong plagiarized his "friendly motif and melody". This case has been submitted to the Copyright Commission in South Korea, and the legal proceedings on this issue are still ongoing.
There is another story related to Baby Shark, which became known in October 2020. Several Oklahoma prison officials reportedly taunted inmates by forcing them to stand against a wall with their hands tied behind their backs while a children's song about sharks played on repeat in a cell for two hours.
