Sight words puzzles
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.
These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, or for any other purpose. (Except starting forest fires. That’s bad.) You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. We want you to use them!
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Sight Words Boom! | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read
- Overview
- Materials
- Activity
- Confidence Builder
- Variation
- Printable Boom! Cards
- Questions and Answers
Sight Words Boom! is a vocabulary-themed game for one or more players.
Children will collect cards by correctly reading the sight words printed on them. But watch out for the BOOM cards! Draw a BOOM card, and you lose all the cards you collected and have to start over.
Image: Sight Words Boom!
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- Sight Words Boom! cards
Create Boom! cards with our Boom! Card Creator and print the cards out on cardstock paper. Each sheet will have eight sight word cards and one BOOM card. Cut apart the cards along the dotted lines.
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Shuffle the cards and put them in a face-down stack. Player A draws a card from the stack 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.)
If she reads the word correctly, she gets to keep the card.
Then Player B takes a turn (if there are multiple players). If Player A does not read the word correctly, Player B gets a chance to read that word and collect a card.
NOTE: If there is a word that no player can read correctly, the adult should set the card aside as a reminder to work on that word in the next day’s lesson.
The BOOM cards are what make this game fun and exciting! If a child draws a BOOM card, she loses all the cards she has collected. On her next turn she can start collecting new cards. The lost cards (including the BOOM card) should be shuffled and added to the bottom of the face-down stack.
Keep playing until all the cards in the face-down stack have been collected. The winner is the player with the most cards.
If there is only one player, she plays to see how many cards she can collect before losing them to a BOOM card. She can play repeatedly, trying to beat her previous record.
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If the child is easily discouraged when she loses her cards, simply play with fewer BOOM cards.
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Set a timer for anywhere from one to five minutes. Challenge the players to read as many words and collect as many cards as they can before the time runs out. But they still have to watch out for the BOOM cards!
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Create your own custom Boom! cards or use some of our pre-made templates below.
6.1 Blank Boom! Card Templates
- Blank Boom! Card Templates (Write in your own words)
6.2 Dolch Sight Words Boom! 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 Boom! 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 Boom! 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.
These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, or for any other purpose.
(Except starting forest fires. That’s bad.) You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. We want you to use them!
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Internet: Internet and mass media: Lenta.ru
Almost every day, puzzles and pictures appear on the net, deftly deceiving the eyesight and confusing users. They cause fierce debate over and over again, although sometimes the solution lies on the surface, and for this you just need to remember the basics of the school curriculum. Lenta.ru selected the most discussed puzzles and optical illusions that made a lot of noise on the Internet.
Illusion of superiority
In early April, the father of an American family was cleaning up a toy railway for his son. Usually he just threw all the elements of the road into a box, and that was the end of the cleaning. But this time he decided to put all the details in order and noticed an interesting feature - if you put two completely identical curved parts of the road under each other, it seems that they are of different lengths.
A surprised American asked on Twitter how to explain this effect. As a result, his post with the video was retweeted by several thousand people. Later he himself found the answer to his question. Back in 1982, psychologist Joseph Jastrow showed that there is no magic here: it’s just that the lower part of the upper figure is short, and the upper part of the lower figure is long, which deceives the eye.
Chew bananas, eat coconuts
In February 2016, a Canadian citizen invited her Facebook friends to puzzle over a children's puzzle about bananas, coconuts and apples. The puzzle is a system of equations with several unknowns. Based on them, it is proposed to determine what each of the terms equals.
Image: Lisa Woelke's Facebook page
The catch is in the final calculation, where the number of fruits changes: there is one less banana in the bunch, and half of the split coconut remains. This has thrown many people off track. Some came to the conclusion that the final version was 14, someone came out with 15, and the third - 16.
As a result, the post on Facebook alone collected more than 180 thousand reposts and 2.7 million comments.
Split personalities
It is unlikely that the photographer from Switzerland Titiana Vergari, posting her not the most masterpiece work on Instagram, thought that the picture would cause such a stir in the network. She photographed several girls at the mirror wall, but did not say how many models took part in the shooting. Here users also puzzle. It seems to someone that there are two girls, someone is sure that there are four, there is a version that there were 12 of them.
Photo: @tizzia
Horse in a circle
And this is a test for peripheral visual acuity. In a bright red circle, reminiscent of the one on the Japanese flag, it is proposed to make out a horse. The vast majority sees the outlines of the animal, someone even manages to catch the details: grass, mane, saddle. But there are those who cannot see the horse.
Picture: playbuzz.
com
Another test for peripheral visual acuity. Surfing the web for several years. If you look in the middle of the image, you can see how one of the purple circles in the circle becomes light green.
Brutal sounds
This logic puzzle is cracked by children like nuts and adults are confused.
Photo: Yaplakal.com
The answer is simple: we are talking about the number of letters in the sounds that the animals in the picture are believed to make: “woof”, “moo”, “coo-coo”, “quack”, “ be”, “oink”, “crow”. The donkey says "ia", so the correct answer is two. And the adults came out with six and eight.
Gay or not gay?
The so-called Finnish Army Test, better known as the Finnish Homosexuality Test, determines whether a recruit is gay or not. If in the fifth circle a person cannot see the number six, then he is a latent homosexual.
Image: log-in.ru
In fact, this test is a fake. Back in 2009, blogger Fritz Morgen came up with it.
He said that a Finn friend of his had sent the test and attached a black-and-white test plate to it, on which all six numbers were really visible. Morgen wanted to play a prank on those who take everything written in blogs for truth. And he succeeded: heterosexual bloggers, confused by the results of the test, began to distribute it in their accounts. True, commentators quickly exposed the fake, but for some time the record even managed to hang in the top of Yandex.
What color is the pill?
This test arose after the "blue and white dress phenomenon" died down. The pictures in different colors show pills in the palm of your hand. It is proposed to determine what color they are.
Image: buzzfeed.com
Opinions are divided. Some people see the same gray pills in both pictures, others notice the difference and believe that one of the pills is red and the other is blue.
In fact, both pills are gray, but the brain makes them see them as different even after the person knows the correct answer.
And indeed, they explained to everyone that the pills were gray, the journalists checked it in Photoshop, but the controversy did not subside for a long time.
Image: buzzfeed.com
Adidas Bout
Exactly one year after the white and blue dress, Tumblr has a new clothing problem. The girl, deliberately emphasizing that she did not want to create a new meme, posted a photo of the Adidas olympics and asked her subscribers what color she was.
Image: Poppunkblogger Tumblr Page
Some see the jacket in blue and white, others see it in green and gold. Some people think that the Olympian is black and brown. 67 percent of Twitter followers polled by Lenta.ru chose this option.
Most likely, in the case of the jacket, as with the dress earlier, an optical illusion worked due to inaccurate color rendering.
Soon the author, having complained about the hype around her post, deleted the message, but tens of thousands of people shared the repost of the post.
Riddles about carrots with answers
• I grow in the ground in the garden,
Red, long, sweet.
(Carrot)
•Above ground green tail,
Underground red nose.
Bunny eats deftly...
What is her name? ...
(Carrot)
•This red-haired girl,
Beets are not sister at all,
Just side by side in the garden,
Sheltered for order
(Carrot)
•Very bright girl
In the summer he hides in a dungeon.
Bunnies and kids love
Fresh and in cutlets.
That redhead cheat
It's called...
(Carrot)
•Red Maiden
Growing up in a dungeon,
People took in hand,
The braids were broken.
(Carrot)
• One after the other in order
Ponytails sticking out in the garden,
A beautiful girl
sits in an earthen dungeon.
(carrot)
• Curly braid
And dew shines on it!
Whose scythe lies in the garden?
Where are the orange heels?
A cheat hid in the ground,
Vitamin.
..
(Carrot)
• Top green,
bottom red,
rooted into the ground.
(Carrot)
•Redhead like a fox
But, she sits in a dungeon,
The tail over the bed holds deftly
Called ...
(carrot)
•On the ridge she is a queen
And no one compares to her,
Cobalt, iodine and carotenes,
A lot of vitamins.
No Skill Required
To eat
(carrot)
•The Maiden hid in the ground.
A scythe sticks out of the ground.
I will deftly pull out
Red
(Carrot.)
•Red girl
Sitting in a dungeon,
And the spit is on the street.
(Carrot)
Orange spine hidden in the ground,
And the braid is green in the morning dew.
I want to taste again and again and again
This useful, tasty .....
(Carrot)
•For curly tuft
Dragged a fox from a mink.
Feels very smooth,
Tastes like sugar sweet
(Carrot)
•Red, grown into the ground.
(Carrot)
•Deep into the earth always grows
This long root crop.
From it we are a woman's nose
Stuck right in the cold.
And now - I'm ready
Drink juice from ...
(Carrots).
•Red nose rooted into the ground,
A green tail is not needed,
All you need is a red nose.
(Carrot)
•In green socks,
Orange handkerchief,
Madame Sitting,
Silent until autumn.
(carrot)
•Walked lanky,
stuck in damp earth.
(Carrot)
• itself is red, the braid sticks out.
Bunnies love, boys love,
Squirrels love, girls love.
Bunny fast, bunny dexterous
He loves very much ...
(carrot).
• Garden keeper
In orange dress
Hiding in the cellar,
Only a scythe on a tubercle.
(Carrot)
• A scythe grows from the ground.
Pull on the hair.
It is difficult to remove the wedge from the bed,
Even with a spatula.
