A great way to help your students master their sight words is to play “Sight Word Tic Tac Toe.”

Materials:

~index cards or flashcards

~game pieces or markers of two different colors or shapes (I just cut out squares of colored paper)

Prepare the game:

1. Write at least 9 target sight words on the index cards (one word per card as in flashcard style).

2. Cut out squares of construction paper or gather game pieces of two different colors.

Play the game:

1. Have the student repeat each word after you until he/she is reasonably familiar with the word.

2. Lay the flashcards face up in a 3X3 grid style (just like tic tac toe without the lines).

3. Give the student 3 seconds to correctly say one of the words. If the students answers correctly, he/she will put their color marker on the word.

4. The first person to get three words in a row (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally) wins!

***I play this game every day with my struggling first graders. The students not only beg to play the game, but they are learning an average of 35 new words each week!!!