Learning sight words can be a lot of memorization which is why we love interactive sight word games like this beach ball sight word game. Let’s have fun with learning!
Our Fridays are exciting as we like to do a kinetic sight word activity to get us moving, it is one of our favorite sight word movement games.
Fun Sight Word Game
This sight word game is one of the kids’ favorite games. It is a simple activity with lots of learning potential…even beyond sight words. It is easier to learn words while moving around and it is one of our favorite beach ball games preschool kids will love.
Every child learns differently, but research shows when they are active, it stimulates learning and memory at a higher rate. Oh! And this sight word game will also get out the excess energy and wiggles by tossing this word ball, that sounds like a win-win to me.
What Are Sight Words?
In case you didn’t know what sight words are, this will help…
Sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that don’t follow the rules of spelling or the six types of syllables. These words have to be memorized because decoding them is really difficult. Students are taught to memorize them as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills.
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The word ball contains words that appear often in text. Most of the are adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions, as well as verbs.
They are common words used in every day language.
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Supplies Needed For Sight Word Movement Game
- Beach Ball
- Permanent Marker
- Sight Word List – see one below
Directions
Step 1
Blow up the beach ball.
Step 2
Choose which panels you are going to add sight words to & then using a permanent marker write sight words on those panels.
Sight Word Lists
Here are some of the words we have put on our ball (taken from the book Kid Writing – great resource for nurturing our students to literacy):
a, an, and, but, if, that, the, this, is, was, has, had, have, been, be, by, bye, hi, at, am, are, not, it, its, or, of, to, on, the, in, into, you, your, our, my, me, I, he, she, they, their, there, those, these, other, here, were, for, with, who, what, when, then, than, how, why, from, go, went, no, not, yes, can, say, said, will, each, about, which, would, could, should, up, down, out, in, on, on top, over, under, only, side, some, many, like, see, make, made, very, after, before, little, big, find, did, do, done, don’t
–Kid Writing
Sight Words that Start with Alphabet Letter Lists
Here at Kids Activities Blog we have a big resource for learning the letters of the alphabet & as part of that letter library we have these sight word lists:
- Sight words that start with the letter A
- Sight words that start with the letter B
- Sight Words that start with the letter C
- Sight words that start with the letter D
- Sight words that start with the letter E
- Sight Words that start with the letter F
- Sight words that start with the letter G
- Sight words that start with the letter H
- Sight words that start with the letter I
- Sight words that start with the letter J
- Sight words that start with the letter K
- Sight words that start with the letter L
- Sight words that start with the letter M
- Sight words that start with the letter N
- Sight words that start with the letter O
- Sight words that start with the letter P
- Sight words that start with the letter Q
- Sight words that start with the letter R
- Sight words that start with the letter S
- Sight words that start with the letter T
- Sight words that start with the letter U
- Sight words that start with the letter V
- Sight words that start with the letter W
- Sight words that start with the letter X
- Sight words that start with the letter Y
- Sight words that start with the letter Z
More Ideas for Kinetic Sight Word Activity with Beach Ball
- If your child is already reading, have them read the words on the color they catch.
- If your child is not yet reading, have them point to a word and you tell them what it is before they toss the ball.
- If your child knows all the words, have them create a sentence with as many words as they can from the color they picked.
This game has been a huge hit with my pre-reading and non-reading kids as well as the neighbor kids who are reading independently!
More Sight Word Games & Activities from Kids Activities Blog
- Over 100 Sight Word Games for Kids
- How to easily teach math sight words
- Download and print these sight word coloring pages that are unicorn themed
- This rainbow words worksheet is full of sight words that are common
- This is a Day of the Dead vocabulary worksheet full of sight words
- Baby Shark sight words worksheet for all sorts of reading fun
- Let’s do some sight word play
- Shark sight word worksheet
- How to learn number words
Did your kids have fun learning sight words with this interactive sight word game?
