Sight Word Activity

For emergent readers, type up a simple book and cut out the individual words. Have children fish the words out of a jar and try to read the word as fast as they can. You could easily turn this into a relay.

Sochi Olympics Art: Ice Skating

Simple ice skating craft. My students are Korean so we discussed the Gold Medal figure skater Kim Yuna before beginning this project. Alternatively, you can use a hole punch and have the kids weave laces into the skate. Depends on how much time you have, and how adept your students' motor skills are. Since we are discussing the Olympics this month my students will draw their country's flag on their ice skate.

Simple Sight Word Activity

Level: Emergent Readers 

For children just learning to read, reading simple texts over and over again can be repetitive and exhausting for children and teachers. Additional problems arise when students memorize sentences rather than actually recognizing individual words. 

Here's an easy way to make things more exciting and deconstruct memorized sentences: 

Type words from the story and cut out the individual words, place these in a container and have children fish out words. They need to be able to recognize the individual word immediately, or they lose their turn. Children who can read the word earn a point. The child with the most recognized sight words wins.

Additionally, it may be worthwhile to vary the font type used for this activity as children may have difficulty generalizing the sight words used in the activity.

Variation: Have children spell the word to it after they read it.