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Sight Word Tic-Tac-Toe

October 22, 2014 by OneMommy

Phonics skills are important for helping kids sound out unknown words.  

Sight words also play a big role in teaching early reading skills.  

Sight word games can make sight word practice at home more fun.   

You can easily make your own sight word tic-tac-toe game, and modify it to match the season or interests of your child.  

Sight Word Game -- play tic-tac-toe with sight words

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Sight Word Tic-Tac-Toe

This simple sight word activity takes almost no prep time.  (Which is awesome, because life with kids is busy!) 

Start by using a black marker to draw a large tic-tac-toe board on white paper.

Slide your paper into a clear dry erase pocket to keep your game board looking nice, and reuse it later with new words.

Then I use a dry-erase marker (I love these markers) to write one sight word (or CVC word) in each square.  

Next, you need game markers.    You could easily just use coins for this, with one person using pennies and another using nickles. 

Or, you could change things up depending on the season or your child’s interest.  

We did this activity in October, and I decided to make Halloween-themed markers for our game.   I used construction paper to cut out black bats and orange pumpkins for our game markers.  

In the winter you could use snowflakes and snowmen, or small Christmas trees and stockings.  

Whatever you choose for markers, you will want to have  5 of each.  

Halloween sight word tic-tac-toe

Sight Word Game 

Once you have the game set up, players should take turns reading the words on the board.  

If your child reads the word correctly, they get to put a marker in the square.  If they don’t read it correctly, they miss their turn and the other player gets to go.  

The first player to have three of their game pieces in a row wins!

 

Here are more fun ways to practice sight words at home:

  • Drive to the Sight Word
  • Sight Word Shoot
  • Sight Word Pop!

 

Filed Under: Language Arts Tagged With: Halloween, sight word activity, sight word game, teaching reading

Comments

  1. Chris Carter says

    October 23, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Oh this is just SO fun!!! What a creative way to learn these sight words. Brilliant!

    • OneMommy says

      October 26, 2014 at 9:24 am

      I try to have a game planned each day at school….Some days I am more creative then others. 🙂

  2. Nancy says

    October 29, 2014 at 11:17 am

    Such a cute idea! I’ve got to try that with my grandsons!

    • OneMommy says

      November 2, 2014 at 12:05 pm

      I hope they have fun with it! 🙂

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