So first up, I’m sharing some ideas that are completely MESS FREE! #CanIGetAnAmen BUT the truth is, I actually don’t have the time or energy to do those types of activities every day. Now, if you’ve been following me for a while, you will probably be well aware of my love for sensory play! And of course, when it comes to learning, you would have probably figured out by now that there was going to be some sensory play ideas included in this post. Like I said earlier, I realised pretty quickly I realised pretty quickly that going through a set of flashcards each night was NOT going to keep Paige engaged in learning these words, so I began finding new and interesting ways to make learning them fun!Īnd as I did these activities at home with Paige I started sharing them on my Instagram page (along with the sight words games I do as part my Literacy rotations with my Reception class at school) a LOT of you said you wanted more! So, I’ve come up with a range of sight word games that will hopefully engage your little one and keep learning FUN! Sight words are generally taught by rote learning – that is repetition which leads to memorising, and the most common way to do this? Flashcards. Sight words are usually explicitly taught to your child when they begin school, and practising these words at home may be part of their homework. The larger the bank of sight words that your child can recognise instantly, the easier it is going to be for them when they begin reading. Please see our disclosure for full details.īut first, let’s chat about what a sight word actually is!Ī sight word is a word commonly found in written text, that usually doesn’t follow regular spelling rules and patterns so are best learned to recognise by sight, rather than sounding out. This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you. So, what did I do? I came up with a whole heap of sight word games and activities that we could do together, which would keep the learning FUN! And that doesn’t necessarily mean daily, but of course the more she practices, the more confident she will become at recognising those sight words.īut the teacher in me was well aware that going through a set of flashcards every night wasn’t going to cut it! Sooner or later, she would get bored and she would lose interest, and then all of a sudden what was once super exciting becomes a chore. Like, seriously, where on earth have the last five years gone?!Īnd as most of you with school-aged little ones (or not so little ones anymore!) would know, starting school generally comes with some sort of ‘homework’ to do at home, whether that’s reading, practising sounds or practising sight words.įor Paige this term, it’s an expectation that she does regular sight word practice at home. This post was first published 18/3/19 on my original website Īs I sit here writing this blog post, it still blows my mind that Miss Paige started school this year.
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