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Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Sight Words

15 Fun & Easy Reproducible Games
That Build Fundamental Reading Skills

by Liane B. Onish

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Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Hi, Mom!

Scholastic Inc. grants teachers permission to photocopy the reproducible pages in this book for classroom use
only. No other part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or
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Cover design by Norma Ortiz
Interior design by Gerard Fuchs
Cover illustration by Anne Kennedy

Interior illustration by Rusty Fletcher and Maxie Chambliss
ISBN: 0-439-46596-6

Copyright © 2004 by Liane B. Onish.
All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc.

Printed in the U.S.A.
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Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Contents

About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Sight Word Matchup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Opposites Concentration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Do-Say Charades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Cover-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Color Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sight Word Go Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Number Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
High-Frequency Word Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 in a Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ask, Guess & Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Odd Word Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Puzzling Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Rhyme Concentration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
From Here to There . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sign Up for Bingo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

High-Frequency and Sight Word Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources About This Book

Games make learning fun! This book features 15 exciting, easy-to-make and easy-to-play
card games that reinforce sight words, or high-frequency words. As children begin to
read, they need to recognize these “little” words automatically. Quick recognition of
sight words builds reading fluency.
This book provides a variety of fun games to give children practice in recognizing and
reading sight words. The words chosen for the games come from the American Heritage
Word Frequency Book: 150 Most Frequently Used Words in Printed School English and
the Dolch Word List (see page 48).
Many of the games in this book can be adapted for use with other sight words. You’ll
also find variations for more challenging play, for a total of 31 games. We hope you will
find these games an entertaining way to help children “own” their growing vocabularies.

How to Use This Book

On the following pages, you’ll find reproducible game cards. Introduce the games
one at a time. Model how to play with pairs, small groups, or the whole class. Consider
making copies to send home to encourage family involvement.

How to Make the Cards

Photocopy the card pages onto heavy paper so that the text will not show through the
other side. Laminate if possible. Then cut apart the cards.

How to Store the Cards

Keep the cards for each game in a large, resealable plastic bag. Label the bag with the
name of the game, the skill it reinforces, and the number of players. For older children,
or for your own reference, photocopy the directions and keep them inside the bag.

Who Goes First?

Try these different ways to decide who goes first.
• The player whose first or last initial is closest to A (or Z) goes first.
• Mix up the word cards for the game. Deal one card to each player. The player

with the card closest to A (or Z) in alphabetical order goes first.
• Have players roll a die or spin a spinner from another game. The player with the

highest or lowest number goes first. For variety, have the player with the lowest
number go first.

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Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Activities for Any Time

Use these activities to reinforce the skills developed in the games.

Flash Cards

Materials: index cards
On index cards, make sets of the 150 high-frequency words or the 220 Dolch sight
words, listed on page 48. Keep the cards in a large basket. Select a handful at
random to use as flash cards.

My Words

Materials: 2 bags or boxes for each child, index cards
Give each child two large bags or boxes and a pile of flash cards. Label one “Words I
Know” and the other “Words to Know.” Point out to children how small words, such as
the I and to on the bags or boxes, affect meaning. Children try to read each word and
then place it in the appropriate bag or box. The goal is to move all the cards in the
Words to Know bag or box into the Words I Know collection.

in at
if
doWords Words
I Know to Know

go be
is he

as

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Sight Word Matchup oopuGetrndeoasoptrasfcoeorsr

! Skill: Reading one- and two-letter sight words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Whole class
Materials: Object: To find the player with the matching sight word

• 26 word cards: a, I, am, an, How to Play
as, at, be, by, do, go, he, if, in,
is, it, me, my, no, of, on, or, so, 1. Photocopy and cut apart enough word cards so that there
to, up, us, we (pages 6–8) are two cards for each word and each pair of players.

Time It 2. Mix up the cards. Distribute them randomly, one card to
each player. Tell children not to look at their cards until you
Time how long it takes the say “Go.”
class to match all the
words. Play several times, 3. When you say “Go,” players look at their cards and find a
recording the time for each classmate with the same word. Once children pair up, have
game. Challenge players to them spell out and then read their word together and
beat their previous time. sit down.

Other Words

Play the game with three-
letter sight words or a
random selection, or let
children select the words
to use.

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a I

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am an as
at be by
do go he
if in is

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or so to

no of on

me my it

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OSoprptionsgiteHsatCsoRnacceenstration

! Skill: Recognizing and reading antonyms

Materials: Players: Two or more
Object: To collect the most pairs of opposites
• 24 word cards
How to Play
Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources (pages 10–11):
1. Photocopy and cut apart the 24 word cards and the wild card.
on, off always, never 2. Mix up the cards and place them facedown in a 5 by 5 array.
3. Play as you would play Concentration. The first player turns over
yes, no after, before
two cards and reads the words. If the words make a pair of
new, old start, stop opposites, the player keeps the pair and turns over two more
cards. If the two new cards do not make a pair of opposites, the
take, give come, go player turns them facedown and the next player takes a turn.
4. When a player turns over the wild card, he or she can use the
work, play over, under card to make a pair of opposites. When the game is over, one
card will remain and the player who
big, small in, out holds the wild card takes it.

• Blank wild card (below)

More Opposites Ê

Add these opposites to
make a larger game: him,
her, here, there, is, was,
our, their, for, from, up,
down.

Go Wild wild
card
Add two or more wild cards
to the game.

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after before new

never yes no

off always on

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come give take
play work go
big under
out over
in small

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Do-Say Charades

! Skill: Reading verbs

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Small groups or whole class
Materials: Object: To name the action and read the word

• 22 word cards: buy, call, How to Play
carry, clean, cut, draw, drink,
eat, find, fly, help, hold, jump, 1. Photocopy and cut apart the word cards. Mix up the cards
open, play, sleep, stop, thank, and place them facedown in a pile.
walk, wash, work, write
(pages 12–14) 2. Model how to play with the word card sleep. Read the
card without showing it to the group. Then tell players that
you will act out the word on the card for them to guess. The
first player to correctly guess what you are doing takes the
card, shows it to the group, and then keeps the card.

3. The player who correctly guesses the verb takes a new card
from the pile and acts out that verb.

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buy call

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carry
cut

drink
find
help

clean
draw

eat
fly
hold

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stop
walk
work

open
sleep
thank
wash
write

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Cover-Up

! Skill: Matching word shapes to words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Individuals or pairs
Object: To cover all words correctly
• Word frames (page 16)
• Sheet with 6 words: about, How to Play
today, bring, carry, words,
right (page 17) 1. Photocopy the shapes on page 16 (one set per child or
pair). Carefully cut along the dotted lines around
Frame More each shape.

Materials: Index cards, 2. Photocopy page 17 for each player or pair. Do not cut out
marker, scissors the individual words.

Make additional shapes by 3. Children find the word that fits the shape and place the
writing a word (lightly in shape on the word. When finished, all words will be
pencil) on an index card. Use covered by the shapes.
a marker to carefully draw a
frame around it. Erase the
words. Cut out the shape.
Then write the word on a
blank index card. Give
children several shapes and
cards to match.

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Color Puzzles

! Skill: Spelling color words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Individuals or pairs
Object: To use individual letters to spell color words
• 21 letter cards: w, h, i, t, e,
r, d, y, l, l, o, b, u, a, c, k, n, g, How to Play
e, p, p (pages 18–19)
• Crayons: white, red, blue, 1. Photocopy and cut apart the individual letter cards (one set
black, brown, green, orange, per individual or pair).
purple, pink
• Bag or box 2. Place the white, red, blue, black, brown, green, orange,
• Writing paper purple, and pink crayons in a bag or box. For younger
children, use crayons with the color names on the labels.
Time for Color For older children, use crayons without labels.

How many colors can children 3. Spread out the letter cards. Players take a crayon out of the
spell using the letter cards in bag and then find the letters that spell the color name.
five minutes? In ten minutes?
4. Give each player a sheet of writing paper. Have players
use the crayon to write the color word.

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p

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wh i t
e rdy
l l ob
uac k
ngep

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Sight Word Go Fish

! Skill: Matching sight words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Two to four
Materials: Object: To get rid of one’s cards by finding word pairs

• 2 sets of 26 word cards: How to Play
away, again, been, best, done,
day, each, even, first, from, 1. Photocopy and cut apart two sets of word cards. Use the
gave, going, have, how, just, blank cards on page 23 if you want to add words to
know, laugh, light, make, much, the game.
only, once, place, pretty,
would, which (pages 21–23) 2. Mix up the cards and deal eight to each player. Spread out
the remaining cards facedown in the center of the table.
Little Fish This is the “fish pond.”

For younger children, use 3. Players look at their cards, remove word pairs, and place
only 10–12 words and make each pair of words facedown in front of them on the table.
three or four sets of the
selected words. 4. Play as you would play Go Fish. The first player asks the
player to his or her left for a specific word that would make
Class Words a pair with a card he or she already has. If the asked
player has the card, he or she gives it to first player. (If not,
Make your own set of Go Fish he or she says “Go fish,” and the first player takes a card
cards by writing target from the fish pond. That ends his or her turn.) The first
words on index cards. player then asks any other player for another card until
the asked player does not have the requested card.

5. The player who said “Go fish” asks the player to his or her
left for a card.

6. Continue playing until one player has found pairs for all his
or her cards. If two players finish at the same time, the
player with the most pairs wins.

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away
been
done
each
first

again
best
day
even
from

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just
laugh
make

going
how
know
light
much

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only
place
would

once
pretty
which

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Number Puzzles

! Skill: Recognizing numerals and number words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Individuals or pairs
• 10 nuMmbaetr epurziazlelss::one, Object: To assemble puzzle pieces to form numerals

two, three, four, five, six, How to Play
seven, eight, nine, ten
(pages 24–25) 1. Cut apart, enlarge, and photocopy the numerals on this
• Heavy paper (10 sheets) page and page 25 onto heavy paper.
• 10 envelopes
2. Cut each numeral into four to eight irregular puzzle pieces.
Mixed-Up Numbers 3. Put the pieces for each puzzle in a separate envelope.

For more challenging play, Label the envelope with the number word.
mix up the pieces of several 4. Give individuals or pairs a number puzzle to assemble.
number puzzles for players
to sort out and put together.

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High-Frequency Word Races

! Skill: Alphabetizing

Players: Individuals, pairs, or teams

Materials: Object: To arrange sight words in alphabetical order

Materials: How to Play

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources • 26 word cards: are, back, Individuals:
cold, did, each, funny, get, 1. Photocopy and cut apart a set of word cards for each child.
has, its, just, kind, like, myself,
now, other, part, quiet, read, Mix up each set.
said, through, use, very, wish,
x-ray, you, zoo (pages 27–28) 2. Set the timer for one minute.
• Timer
3. The child arranges the cards in alphabetical order.
Z to A
4. At the end of one minute, the child counts the number of cards
Order the words in reverse in correct alphabetical order. Challenge him or her to try again
alphabetical order. and beat the previous time.

Random Races Pairs:
1. Mix up a set of cards and give half the stack to each player.
Randomly choose 10–12
word cards for players to 2. Players work together to put the cards in alphabetical order.
order alphabetically. Teams:
1. Mix up one set of cards for each team, each on a different-

colored paper. Place the cards in a pile facedown in front of
each team.

2. Teams line up a short distance from their playing field (a long
table or chalkboard tray). Each team needs its own field.

3. The first player on each team takes the top card and runs to the
playing field. He or she places the card roughly where it should
go in alphabetical order. For example, the word card are
should be placed on the far left of the playing field, the word
card zoo on the far right. Then the player runs to the back of
the line and the next player goes.

4. Each team player adds one card to the playing field. The first
team to accurately place all the word cards in alphabetical
order wins.

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are
cold
each
get
its
kind
myself

back
did
funny
has
just
like
now

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said
use
wish
you

part
read
through
very
x-ray
zoo

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3 in a Row

! Skill: Spelling three-letter sight words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources MMaatteerriiaallss:: Players: Small groups or whole class
Object: To get three letters in a row that spell a word
•3-in-a-Row game board
(page 30) How to Play

• 20 letter cards: a, l, n, d, y, 1. Photocopy pages 29–30 for each player. Have children cut
r, e, b, u, t, c, i, f, o, g, h, s, m, apart the letters and keep their game boards.
w, p (pages 29–30)
2. Have players place the cards facedown in a pile.
The 20 letter cards will 3. Players take their top card and place it on any space on their
spell these 33 sight words
and high-frequency words: game boards. Children continue until they have spelled a
three-letter word going across, down, or diagonally. They then
and any are but call out “Three in a row!”
can day for get 4. Make a list of the winning words on chart paper as they are
had has her him called out.
his how its man
may old one out NOTE: Any three-letter word can count as a win, not only the
our new not now listed high-frequency and sight words. Other words include
put she the two ant, mop, fog, nap, try, sun, and tub.
use you was
who why

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a l ndy

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r ebu t
c i f og
h s mwp

Ask, Guess & Answer

! Skill: Reading question words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Whole class
• 7 quesMtioantweorridasl:sw:ho, what, Object: To use sight words to make up questions

where, when, why, how, which How to Play
(page 32)
• 13 picture cards: giraffe, 1. Photocopy and cut apart the word and picture cards.
elephant, parrot, bear, 2. Lay out the word cards faceup. Mix up the picture cards
butterflies, octopus, clown,
motorcycle, rocket, balls, and place them facedown in a pile. Seat children in a circle
painter, police, magician around all the cards.
(pages 32–33) 3. One child selects a card from the pile and identifies the
• Chart paper and marker picture. Then he or she makes up a question using the
picture and a question word of his or her choice (“What
More Pictures does a bear eat?” “How does a rocket work?” and so on).
Record the question on chart paper. Have the group guess
Add pictures from magazines or estimate the answer. Write their ideas on the chart.
or the Internet on topics the 4. Play continues until all question words have been used.
class is studying. 5. Review all the questions and guesses. As a group, use
classroom or library resources to check some of the answers.

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Why? Who?

parrot giraffe

How? What?

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police balls octopus motorcycle bear

painter magician rocket clown butterflies

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Odd Word Out

! Skill: Matching words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Three or more
• 21 worMd caatrdesr:iwaolrsd:, any, Object: To get rid of all of one’s cards without getting stuck

better, came, don’t, every, with the word card
fast, good, help, into, keep,
live, must, number, own, How to Play
people, run, same, things,
upon, your (pages 34–36) 1. Photocopy two sets of the cards on pages 35 and 36 and
cut apart. Make one copy of the word card below. Mix up
Odd Other Word Out the cards and deal one to each player.

Duplicate the card. 2. Players remove pairs of matching words from their hands
and place them facedown in front of them.
To vary the odd word that
3. Play as you would play Old Maid. Players fan out the cards
ends the game, remove a in their hands. The beginning player holds up his or her
cards for the player to his or her left. That player selects a
different single word card card from the fan and adds it to his or her hand.

each time children play. 4. If the new card makes a pair, the player removes that pair
from his or her hand, then offers his or her hand to the
next player.

5. Play until one player is left with the word card.

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any
came
every
good
into

better
don’t
fast
help
keep

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your things run

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PSuozrztliinngg HWaotrsdRsaces

! Skill: Manipulating letters to spell high-frequency words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Individuals or pairs Ê
Object: To spell the most small words using the letters in a
Materials:
long high-frequency word
• 1 envelope for each word
• Letter cards for these How to Play
words: another, because,
different, please, together 1. Prepare envelopes in advance. Place all the letter cards for
(pages 37–38) the words another, because, different, please, and together
• Pencils and paper in separate envelopes. Write the words on the outside of
their envelopes. Spare letter squares are included below.
These (and other) small
words can be spelled 2. Distribute envelopes and writing materials.
from the letters in the 3. Players place the cards in the correct order to spell the
long words:
another: a, an, no, not, puzzle word. Then players write the word at the top of a
her, he, note, hat, rat, ran, sheet of paper.
hot, rot, ear, earth 4. Players use the same letter cards to spell other words, and
because: be, cause, use, record each word they spell. Players score points for each
us, cab, base, bus, ease, word (one point per letter).
see, bee
different: if, ten, den, an
rent, dent, fife, tire, reef,
differ, reed, deer
please: a, as, pea, lease,
sea, sleep, ape, apes, seal,
peal, peel
together: to, get, her,
the, he, go, got, hot, tote,
here, there

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becau

sed i f
f eren
t p l ea
s e t og

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Rhyme Concentration

! Skill: Recognizing and reading rhyming words

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Pairs or small groups Ê
Materials: Object: To collect the most pairs of rhymes

• 24 word cards: light, right, How to Play
all, fall, found, round, she, he,
go, no, could, would, not, hot, 1. Photocopy and cut apart the word cards on pages 40 and 41
bring, sing, or, for, is, his, an, and the wild card below.
can, get, let (pages 40–41)
• Blank wild card (below) 2. Mix up the cards and place them facedown in a 5 by 5 array.
3. Play as you would play Concentration. The first player turns
More or Less
over two cards and reads the words. If the words rhyme, the
Add other rhyming word card player keeps the pair and turns over two more cards. If the
pairs to make the game more two cards do not rhyme, the player turns them over again and
challenging. Use fewer pairs the next player takes a turn.
when playing with younger 4. When a player turns over the wild card, he or she can use it
children. to make a rhyming pair.
5. When the game is over, the player with
Go Wild! the wild card can take the one
remaining card. The player with the
most cards at the end of the game wins.

Photocopy additional wild wild
cards for more variety. card

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she he go

found round fall

all right light

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bring hot not
for or sing
an his
let get is
can

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From Here to There

! Skill: Reading homophones

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Whole class
Object: To line up using high-frequency homophones
Materials:
How to Play
• 22 word cards: ate, eight,
buy, by, for, four, know, no, one, 1. Photocopy and cut apart the word cards. Distribute one
won, hour, our, hear, here, word card to each player. If necessary, have some children
right, write, to, too, two, pair up (because there are only 22 cards).
their, there, they’re
(pages 42–44) 2. Call on children to read the word on their card and think
about how they would use it in a sentence.
Large Groups
3. Randomly call out a word (see Materials box) and use it in
Make additional homophone a sentence. The player with that word card can get in line
word cards, such as: I, eye, after saying the word, spelling it, and using it in another
blue, blew, f lour, f lower, sentence. Then the player(s) with a homophone for that
fare, fair, see, sea, some, word reads it, spells it, uses it in a sentence, and gets
sum, son, sun, tail, tale, wear, in line.
where
4. Collect the word cards after all children are in line.

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for
know
one
hour

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write

too
their
they’re

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! Skill: Writing and reading environmental print

Reading Skills Card Games: Sight Words © Liane B. Onish, Scholastic Teaching Resources Materials: Players: Individuals, pairs, small groups, or whole class

• Sign Up for Bingo game Object: To get four words in a row—down, across, or diagonally
board (page 46)
Materials:
• 20 word cards: bus, closed,
don’t, enter, exit, hospital, How to Play
library, one, open, parking,
police, pull, push, sale, school, 1. Photocopy and distribute the Sign Up for Bingo game boards
stop, street, walk, way, zone and a set of word cards to each child. Distribute these, plus
(page 47) one set of word cards for the Caller.

• Scissors 2. Players cut apart the words and place them in random squares
on their game boards. Each player’s board will
• 16 small markers for each look different.
player (pieces of paper, paper
clips, or buttons) 3. Mix up the Caller’s cards and place them facedown in a pile.

4. Play as you would play Bingo. The Caller reads the word on
the top card and uses it in a sentence. Players look for that
word on their game boards and place a marker on it.
Continue until one player has four words in a row and calls
“Bingo!” Challenge the winner to use the winning words in
a sentence or story.

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High-Frequency and Sight Word Lists

150 Most Frequently Used Words in Printed School English*

(in alphabetical order)

a, about, after, again, all, also, an, and, another, any, are, around, as, at, away,
back, be, because, been, before, but, by, called, came, can, come, could, day,
did, different, do, does, down, each, even, find, first, for, from, get, go, good,
had, have, has, he, help, her , here, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, its, just,
know, like, little, look, long, made, make, man, many, may, me, more, most,
much, must, my, new, no, not, now, number, of, off, old, on, one, only, or, other,
our, out, over, part, people, place, put, right, said, same, see, she, so, some,
such, take, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, things, think, this,
three, through, time, to, too, two, up, use, used, very, was, water, way, we, well,
went, were, what, when, where, which, who, why, will, with, word, words, work,
would, write, years, you, your

Dolch Basic Sight Word List (220) (in alphabetical order)**

a, about, after, again, all, always, am, an, and, any, are, around, as, ask, at,
ate, away, be, because, been, before, best, better, big, black, blue, both, bring,
brown, but, buy, by, call, came, can, carry, clean, cold, come, could, cut, did,
do, does, done, don’t, down, draw, drink, eat, eight, every, fall, far, fast, find,
first, five, fly, for, found, four, from, full, funny, gave, get, give, go, goes, going,
good, got, green, grow, had, has, have, he, help, her, here, him, his, hold, hot,
how, hurt, I, if, in, into, is, it, its, jump, just, keep, kind, know, laugh, let, light,
like, little, live, long, look, made, make, many, may, me, much, must, my, myself,
never, new, no, not, now, of, off, old, on, once, one, only, open, or, our, out,
over, own, pick, play, please, pretty, pull, put, ran, read, red, ride, right, round,
run, said, saw, say, see, seven, shall, she, show, sing, sit, six, sleep, small, so,
some, soon, start, stop, take, tell, ten, thank, that, the, their, them, then, there,
these, they, think, this, those, three, to, today, together, too, try, two, under, up,
upon, us, use, very, walk, want, warm, was, wash, we, well, went, were, what,
when, where, which, white, who, why, will, wish, with, work, would, write,
yellow, yes, you, your

*From American Heritage Word Frequency Book
**A widely recognized list of high-frequency words

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