Teaching kindergarten students how to read with sight word games! Here are three St. Patrick’s Day themed sight word games that can help teach students to learn how to read. Teaching the beginning words that young readers will see most often is important. Students can get fun practice by playing sight word games and games like these are great for plugging into your lesson plans!
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Kindergarten St. Patrick’s Day Sight Word Games
1. Hooray! – Your kindergarten class will being saying “Hooray!” for sight words with this fun game. Students collect points as they read words correctly and can even earn bonus cards from other players making this an interactive game that has a surprise ending. {Free download}
2. Read the Rainbow – This color word graphing game will combine math skills and analyzing the data at the same time as working on sight words. Talk about a packed lesson for learning how to read color words. This game would also be perfect to compliment a “Brown Bear” theme. {Free download}
3. Rainbow Roll and Write a Word – Adding dice makes learning sight words feel like a game! Students will enjoy rolling a die, writing the word and pit sight words against each other in a race to the top. Students get good practice at spelling the words in this manner since they write them multiple times. {Free download}
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Leslie {aka the original Teach Junkie} loves learning new things to make teaching easier and more effective. She enjoys featuring creative classroom fun when she's not designing teacher shirts, making kindergarten lesson plans or planning her family's next trip to Disney World.