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Sight Word Practice Box
I am so excited to share this with you all. I created it this weekend after feeling disorganized with the “system” we were using to help my son practice his sight words. I feel like we have a great collection of ideas, but keeping them all at the forefront of our minds just wasn’t happening. I wanted to create something that “contained” all our favorite activities, the words (current and past) themselves and anything else we might need for practice. I also wanted something that could be stored easily. So this is what I came up with…
Sight Word Practice Box
I still had a few pizza boxes left from making our pizza box drying rack a few weeks ago so I decided that the pizza box would be the base or station and everything else would fit inside.
Materials:
- a pizza box
- envelopes
- paper
- computer and printer
- scissors
- glue
- word list
- contact paper or laminator
How to Create a Sight Word Practice Box:
• I created labels on my computer for the four envelopes I was going to use and printed them on colored paper.
• I then created 4 envelopes using a template I found online. You can easily use store bought envelopes as well.
• I cut out and glued the labels to the envelopes and then glued the envelopes in place inside the pizza box. I put the “this week’s sight words” and “practice ideas” on the top portion of the box and “past words” and “extra cards for games” on the lower portion of the box. See photo below.
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Then I set to creating the cards for each envelope.
This Week’s Sight Words contains the cards with the words my son is currently working on. There are two cards for each word.
Past Sight Words contains all the sight words we have worked on prior to this week. There is only one card for each word in this envelope. I used the same template as above.
Practice Ideas contains a set of cards and on each card is an activity that can be done using the materials in the box. I have my son choose a card each time we sit down to practice his words.
Extra Cards for Games contains a second set of all the sight words we have already worked on for games that require two of each word (ie Memory or Go Fish).
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After all the cards were created, cut and put inside the correct envelopes, I gathered all our favorite sight word practice games and printed one copy of each for the box. These have been laminated so we can use them over and over again with whiteboard markers. Here are some of the activities I included in the box:
Sight Word Tic-Tac-Toe
Two Blank Game Boards
Roll a Sight Word Alien (from Playdough to Plato)
Sight Word Parking Lot (from Juggling With Kids)
Also in the box:
- whiteboard markers for the games
- a die and playing pieces for the board games
- a sight word die for Roll a Sight Word Alien (see link for directions)
Helpful Links
Making your own dice:
- Teacher Mama: Creating your Own Die For Learning
- Boy Mama: How to Create Your Own Giant Die from a Paper Carton
Other Ideas for Sight Word Practice:
- Teacher Mama: 10 Great Ideas for Teaching Sight Words
- Teacher Mama: Two Fresh Sight Word Practice Ideas
- Teacher Mama: A Game Board for All Occasions
- Teacher Mama: Sight Word Practice Made Fun
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How do you play Tic Tac Toe for sight words?
I love this box idea!! So great!!
Each player chooses one sight word instead of an x or an o. Then play as usual!
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Just bought and downloaded. Looks great! But, I think I’m missing something…where do I find instructions for each of the activities (practice choice cards…eg.beach ball toss, word hunt, word walk, etc.) Am I not seeing it? Please help. Would love to get this started.
If you send me a PM at [email protected], I will send along some directions.
Hi,Stephanie:
I LOVE your ideas and generous sharing!!
I’m a EFL teacher in Taiwan and find tons of great teaching ideas in your blog.
I wonder that is it welcome to share your article with a photo and direct link back here with my friends in a FB page. Sincerely, wish to get your permission to share this fabulous article with others~
BTW: One of the bottom hyperlink “10 Great Ideas of Teaching Sight Words” is misleading to another article in you blog. You might like to revise that.
Best
Kate
Certainly Kate. Thank you for asking for permission.
Here is the post
http://goo.gl/gYLcmx
Thanks for your generous sharing, again.=)
Kate
Thank you Kate!
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This is such a great resource Stephanie. Thank you for sharing :). I’ll be featuring this post as part of my Reading roundup. xo Pauline
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I love it! Thank you so much for posting on Saturday Show and Tell. I hope you’ll be back this week to link up some more great ideas! Have a great rest of the week!
-Mackenzie
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You are a featured favorite this week on Saturday Show & Tell at Cheerios and Lattes! Thanks again for sharing! Can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to this week! 🙂
Mackenzie
Thanks M!!!
what a great idea!
This is a comprehensive approach and you will be ready in a moment’s notice to work with words in a child friendly way. You have also helped others to organize appropriate materials for learning to read. Thank you so much! Carolyn
Thank you!
I love how this keeps everything so organized.
You SHOULD be proud of this post and the bunch of sight word ideas you just shared. This is fantastic! Miss Possum is only new to reading (well, kind of) and some of these activities look like so much fun. I know what I’ll be doing on my day off tomorrow.
Thanks so much Penny! Meanwhile, I will be doing Koala activities all day with my youngest!
What a clever mummy! Such great ideas and templates…we aren’t quite up to sight words yet but i loved reading through this post and am storing the idea away for later! Pinning to the Co-Op board now…thanks for linking up!
This is such a cute idea. I saw it on pinterest and it immediately caught my eye!
Yay! Thank you!!
Thank you so much – I have been trawling the internet this week in desperation for Sight word ideas – this is a briliant idea and we will give the games a go too.
I am so glad it is helpful!!
What a FAB idea!! You have created something that makes learning sight words so much fun – love it!
Thanks Janice!
Love these ideas!
Thanks Cassie!
Fabulous ideas! Pinned it 🙂
Thanks Kylie!
brilliant!
Thank you!!!!
oh this is sooo cool. Clearly we need to eat more take away pizza (only problem is no one delivers to the middle of no where!) LOL
LOL! I went and asked our local pizza place for some boxes- offered to buy them, but they gave me some for free! Always worth a shot! 🙂
I love your use of the pizza box. Very clever.
You’ve been busy creating lots of fun games.
Thanks Jackie!
Awesome!
Thank you Valerie!!
Simply amazing!
Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
Thank you!