Teachers are not the only ones who need to be informed when it comes to sight words in kindergarten: parents need to be informed too. This is because they will be guiding their children through the learning process and helping them at home. Having a sense of what to expect can make things less stressful for everyone involved.
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Best Apps For Kindergarten Sight Words
- Reading Eggs
(Android, iPhone, iPad)
Reading Eggs will help your child recognise and learn sight words while playing a fun game that will keep them engaged for many hours. This sight word app recognises the important link between children learning sight words and becoming fluent and efficient readers. Many of the free sight word activities within this app aim to develop a child’s bank of known sight words so that they can automatically recall them at sight. The sight words that children learn in this free app feature in the storybooks and non-fiction titles, helping them to apply their knowledge to the actual act of reading.
This app provides a variety of games for reinforcing identification of sight words. The lessons provide the perfect way for children to build their vocabulary of critical sight words. At the end of each lesson, children are asked to read an e-book, allowing them to apply their knowledge to meaningful text. It can be used as an app or on the desktop.
Price: Free
Sight Words – Learning Games (Pro)
- Sight Words – Learning Games (Pro)
(Android)
Sight Words Games has been designed to help children, who already have a grasp of reading, the ability to learn sight words in a fun and interactive way. This app includes 6 different sight word games. The app provides a fun way to practice recognizing and spelling over 300 words from the Dolch sight words list. With this app, students will be able to practice common sight words. Teach sight words with fun sight word activities for kids in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade, second grade and third grade. If you’re looking for some engaging sight word practice to get your students moving, check out this app.
Price: $0.99
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Teach Your Monster to Read
- Teach Your Monster to Read
(Android, iPhone, iPad)
Teach your Monsters to Read is a popular sight word apps that have developed automaticity with 100 sight words in a pop-up game. The app covers a mix of the first 100 high frequency words that children need to learn by sight. With this app, kids can learn high-frequency sight words using their senses, making it an interactive and fun way to practice.
This sight word app takes kids on a magical journey, meeting playful characters along the way, and collecting amazing rewards. There’s a lot about Teach Your Monster to Read app that makes it one of the best sight word apps in the market. The game is split into 3 levels. The reception class use the first game in the series, First Steps which is an introduction to the letter sounds, high-frequency words and also includes simple blending and segmenting practice. Year 1 students progress on to the harder levels and begin to practise sentences, learn further graphemes and phonemes and also tricky words. These sight word activities will keep your students actively engaged.
Price: Free
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Pocket Sight Words
- Pocket Sight Words
(Android, iPhone, iPad)
This free sight word app utilises the idea of flashcards and embraces technology to help young children learn sight words. By enhancing the idea of flashcards through using the ability of a device to read out words and help with comprehension this app really gives young children the ability to compound their knowledge of reading through sight words whilst challenging themselves within the game based element of the app.
Through the app, children are exposed to 44 different sight word lists which is a total of 220 words and is easy for both teachers and students to use. Children work their way through each list in sequential order and unlock the next list by completing the one they are on. These sight word activities for kids provide engaging, hands-on ways to build up sight word knowledge and increase reading skills.
Price: Free
Sight Words Sentence Builder
- Sight Words Sentence Builder
(Android, iPhone, iPad)
Sight Words Sentence Builder is an engaging app, in which children work on assembling sentences, using Sight Words. In this app, children can choose from the classic theme, a train theme, or a princess theme to make the app more fun to play. It is fun, simple to use and easy to navigate. It can be used to help children practise reading words and rearranging them to create sentences. The app has different levels of difficulty and can be used with students in Key Stages 1 and 2.
Parents need to know that the Sentence Builder App is suitable for children aged 6 to 8 and helps children develop word recognition, listening, and sentence skills. It presents words in random order, then asks the child to drag the words into place to make the narrated sentence.
Price: $7.99
Sight Words Adventure
- Sight Words Adventure
(iPhone, iPad)
An early reading and spelling adventure has 320 featured sight words that appear in the games. Activities include reading games, such as popping the balloon that holds the target word, writing games such as guiding a bear through a maze to collect letters in the correct order, and a hide-and-seek game with the host kangaroo. Kids start at Level 1 (which roughly corresponds to pre-K level words) and progress through up to Level 5 (roughly corresponding to third grade), though they can move to a different level at any time. Parents can create multiple kid profiles, keep track of progress, and download the full curriculum.
Kids can learn to read three letter words, spell a sizeable collection of the most commonly used sight words and also work on speed and fluency as they quickly identify the target word.
Price: $2.99
Sight Words Learning Games
- Sight Words Learning Games
(Android, iPhone, iPad)
Developed in cooperation with educational specialists, Action Sight Words Games helps children to become confident readers by teaching them in a fun, interactive way high-frequency words from the popular Dolch Sight Words List.
This free sight word app has six educational games with 220 sight words from the popular Dolch list. The app allows the children to practice in the Flash Card mode. It will allow them to list through the words and tap on the cards to hear the words pronounced again and again.
Price: Free
Sight Word Superhero
- Sight Word Superhero
Sight Words Superhero is a child-friendly app that helps students get familiar with sight words. Children are encouraged to use this app to learn how to read words by sight and improve reading skills. Through playing games and ‘fighting’ against the witch and her monsters who have stolen all the words from all of the books the user must listen to the voice read out the words that they need to ‘free’.
Specific sight words can also be selected to focus on in the app if the user requires a more personalised learning experience. The games are simple but look really nice and are engaging for students. This sight word app does not have in-app purchases and advertising, which should tell you that this is a child-friendly app.
Price: $3.99
Sight Words Coach
- Sight Words Coach
(iPhone, iPad)
Sight words coach helps students practice commonly read words, also known as sight words. The collection of sight words games gives students opportunities to practice their sight words and build toward mastery while also keeping them engaged and having fun. Plus practicing sight words in this game format is engaging and encouraging to students to become sight word masters.
Price: Free
Sight Words Ninja
- Sight Words Ninja
(iPhone, iPad)
For kids that can’t get enough Fruit Ninja, this app brings that slicing and chopping action to the world of sight words. Styled after a popular app for kids, this app lets kids learn sight words while playing a game. Adults can customize the word lists and how they’re presented to provide a personalized learning experience. You can choose the standard app for Dolch list students, or alternatively download the Fry Words Ninja version. This app is so simple and perfect for students to learn sight words and letter sounds.
Price: $1.99
Sight word apps you can customize
Why are sight words so important? {By the way, I’m using this term interchangeably with “high frequency words”.} Simply put, sight words are too frequently needed for reading and writing that we want learners to know them automatically, by sight. Want to read more? Be sure to read my article: Phonics or Sight Words? Teaching Kids to Read.
SIGHT WORD GAMES APP
This sight word games app is filled with fun activities that will have kids {recommended for K-3 learners} begging to play longer. Not only will kids be reading sight words, they will be will building, spelling, writing, whacking, and slinging them!
My absolute favorite thing about this app that sets it apart from other apps is that you can choose sight words for each learner from the word lists provided! Woohoo!
The info in “Setting Up Sight Word Lists” and “Sight Word App: Learn Section” you see below have been UPDATED! Check out all the amazing updates! You’ll still find all the fun games included in the updated app!
SETTING UP SIGHT WORD LISTS
In the parent/teacher section, just add the child’s name, pick an avatar {or take a photo of the child and save}.
choosing sight word lists for each player on sight word games app
Then click through the sight word lists {these lists match my printable sight word lists} to chose up to 30 words that the learner interacts with during both the learn and play section! Mix and match the sight words from each list, if you need.
Did you catch that? You can enter as many players as you’d like and they all can have a different list of sight words!
Classroom Teachers: If you want to assign an entire small group of kids the same word list and you don’t want to enter names individually, you could simply take a photo of the small group of kids, name the player “Group 1” {or a more original name for the group} and each student can use the app through that player, Group 1. The app does not track what each student does, so you don’t have to worry about one student’s work interfering with another’s.
There are other things you can set up within the parent/teacher section, so be sure to check those out, too!
players tap on their avatar-name with customized sight word list included
When the app is set up, each child can choose his name/avatar, with his set of sight words. As you can see above, “Billy” has 15 words set up for him. If you have multiple players, keep tapping the avatars until you get to the correct one. Then, hit the triangle play button at the center of the screen to either go to the learn or games section {see more below}.
SIGHT WORD APP: LEARN SECTION
Within the main screen, there are two options: 1- Learn Section & 2- Games Section.
sight words picked for a player on sight word games app
In the learn section, learners will find their list of chosen sight words*. When they click on them, they can hear the word said, hear the word spelled,
unscramble the sight word in learn section of sight word app
put the word back in order,
tracing letters to spell sight words
and trace the letters of each word.
choosing sight words that share a particular phonics feature on the sight word app
*Psst! You can even choose sight words that feature a certain phonics feature, like I did with his short vowel list! Too cool!
SIGHT WORD APP: GAMES SECTION
The sight word games section is super fun, with 5 games, each with a little twist!
Sight Word Memory Match game on sight word games app
- Memory Match – played just like your traditional game…except watch out for the “Mix it Up!” card, which mixes up the placement of all the cards, adding an extra challenge! {This idea can be originally found in my Sight Word Rhyming Match Game.}
Word Whack sight word spelling game from sight word app
- Word Whack – {my personal favorite} “Whack” the letters to spell the sight words in order. If you click the ? at the bottom, there are speed options to make it even more challenging!
Sight Word Bingo Game on sight word games app
- Sight Word BINGO – Try to get four in a row to have BINGO! In the parent/teacher section, there’s an option to scramble the sight words within this game, making it even more of a challenge, especially for kids who are ready!
Sight Word Hang Man game on sight word games app
- Sight Word Hang Man – Again, played like traditional Hang Man. Can the learner guess the word before the stick man has been “hanged”?
tap “w” to view sight word list for Hang Man sight word game
To add some word strategy to the game, players can tap on the letter w at the top right and their list of sight words appears for them to reference.
learners can reference their sight word list for Sight Word Hang Man
This way, players aren’t just guessing random letters, but are using strategies to spell specific sight words.
Sight Word Slingshot Game from Sight Word Games App
- Sling Shot – {my kids’ favorite} If you have our Alphabet Sounds App, Short Vowel Word Study App, or our Long Vowel Word Study App, you’ve probably seen the slingshot game before.
This one is a little different with a fun carnival feel to it. Players pull back the object and sling it to spell the word. {The letters needed to spell each sight word are red.} The player is allowed 3 strikes, but if he hits a star, one of the strikes is removed.
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