Sight Word Games
Follow the links below to the free online sight word games. Your child will have lots of fun while developing their sight word
recognition and spelling skills. These games will help children to learn to recognise the most common reading words on sight.
This skill is particularly useful for those all-important and frequently used words which are quite tricky to sound out or spell phonetically.
Developing an instant recognition of these words will give your child's reading a boost and help them to gain confidence. Learning the
words from flashcards can be mind-numbingly boring, so using games (either online or card games) will help them to learn almost effortlessly.
Sight words are also sometimes called key words, high frequency words, Dolsch words or Fry words.
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 Dinosaur Eggs
A high frequency word is read aloud (click the sun to hear it again). You have to click the correct egg which matches
the word you heard. (ICT Games)
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 Star Words
Drag the words to the correct shape. You can use the Teacher's Control Panel to alter the settings, for example, to choose
specific words rather than a random list. (BBC Schools)
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 Number Words
Drag the number word to the correct number. If you get it right, the word turns green and sticks. If you get it
wrong, it floats back again. (Crickweb)
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 Look, Cover, Write, Check
Choose a set of words then practice spelling them using the look, cover, write, check method. To use the high frequency
words, click the red buttons from Easy to Hard on the right hand side. (ICT Games)
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 Flash cards and spelling
Type in a list of words, then choose either flashcards or a spelling practice game. (Crickweb)
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 Colour Words
Drag the number word to the correct number. If you get it right, the word turns green and sticks. If you get it
wrong, it floats back again. (Crickweb)
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 Make a Match
Click two cards and see if they match. The words are read out clearly, making it a useful game even if the child doesn't
know all of the words yet. (Starfall)
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 Spellbound
This game shows a word, then the letters get jumbled up. The child has to rearrange the letters to make the word.
Most of the words are high frequency sight words. (BBC Education)
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 High Frequency Word Games
A set of six games to help with recognition of high frequency words. The idea is to drag the word on the left
into a sentence so that it makes sense. (Sadlier-Oxford)
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 Word Reader
A high frequency word is read aloud and you have to click the flower with the matching word. (ICT Games)
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 Roy the Zebra
Drag the colour words to match them to the correct colour. There are also games on this site for days of the week,
months of the year and number words (click the list on the left hand side). (Roy the Zebra)
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Sight Word Video
This video goes through several sight words, putting them into a sentence to aid understanding. Then children are invited to try reading
the words themselves. Great fun!
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