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By Amanda Boyarshinov 12 Comments

Learning Apple Sight Word Game for Kindergarten

Help make learning sight words fun with this interactive Apple Sight Word Game!
Learn to read Sight Words: Apple Sight Word Game for Kindergarten, fall literacy activities

Sight Words in Kindergarten

Sight words are the words most commonly used in written text. Often times, these words can not be sounded out, rather need to be memorized.  Teaching your child the top sight words will help them to become a stronger reader with fluency.  They should be able to read these words quickly, without needing to stop and sound them out. Affiliate links to products.

Apple Sight Words Game, A Playful Learning Activity

My kindergartner is going to school during the day, but I want to continue to make learning FUN at home.  This allows me to enrich and extend the learning at school.  Since our tot-school theme of the week is apples, we kept the same theme =)

Materials Needed for the Apple Sight Words Game

 

Cork Board
Construction Paper
Permanent Marker
Stapler and Staples
Velcro

Directions to make the Apple Sight Words Game

1. Cover the cork board with a construction paper color of your choice. I used blue.
2. Cut out the tree.  Staple this to the board.
3. Staple the soft side of the Velcro to the bottom of the tree.
4. Cut out small apples and write the sight words that you are working on.
5. Staple pieces of the rough Velcro side to the backs of the apples.

 

Ideas for using the Sight Word Apple Game

  • Children can “pick” the sight word apples off the tree.
  • They can harvest the sight words that begin with a given sound. IE Pick all the apples that begin with the {s} sound.
  • Children also liked hiding the apples around the house and stick them on the tree as they found them.
  • They can pick and apple, then say a sentence using that sight word.
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We also had a “big kid” book club where a group of 4-5 year olds got together and read apple stories.  I just bought the collection of apple books and Lalaloopsy: Let’s Pick Apples! was a favorite of my daughters.  I challenged her to find some of our sight words in the book while we were reading it!

We shared these books at book club and brought a sight word memory game for the kids to make and a coloring page for the younger siblings.  I was surprised that the kids just wanted to make the game, but not play it.  They were more interested in hiding the construction paper apples that were labeled with numbers 1-10, finding them, and putting the apples in order!  My goal was to get them working and learning together, so even if they did it with another activity – SUCCESS!

 

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About Amanda Boyarshinov

K - 12 masters reading teacher, author and mom to 3. Amanda is a National Board Certified teacher with oodles of experience in early childhood education.

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Comments

  1. Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas says

    September 18, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Oh, I just made an apple sight word game this week! I like how your kids made sentences with the words they found!

    would love to invite you to link this up to the Sunday Showcase – http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase

    Bern

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  2. Shauna says

    September 20, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    What a clever idea. Even though my little ones are back in school we still do a lot of fun learning and crafts at home as well.
    Thanks again for sharing this great interactive idea at my "All Things Wonderful Wed. Link Party" and I hope that you will come back again this week.
    Shauna
    myshaenoel.blogspot.com

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  3. Aimee from Classified: Mom says

    September 20, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    I love how you incorporated fall into learning sight words! Thank you for linking up to The Sunday Showcase!

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  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    October 9, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    I love the sight words tree – what a fun way to practice recognizing words!

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  5. Julie says

    October 10, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    I love the tree! We have a store-bought sight word bingo game and my kids love playing it. Maybe next time you all get together the kids will want to play the game they made. 🙂

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  6. Raising a Happy Child says

    October 10, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    This is a cute idea! I should keep our sight words more visible to daughter. She can read them, of course, but spelling them is an entirely different matter 🙂

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  7. The Iowa Farmer's Wife says

    September 16, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    Stopping by to let you know I featured this today on The Sunday Showcase!

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  8. Rebecca English says

    September 16, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    I have shared these on the Sunday showcase pinterest board. Thanks for linking.

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  9. Kim @ The Educators Spin On It says

    September 26, 2012 at 8:20 am

    Thank you so much!

    Reply
  10. Anna @ The Measured Mom says

    September 7, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    This is great. My preschoolers would love this!

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