Most importantly, even without writing the actual words down your students are learning so much through this hands-on experience. Next, another great tactile sight word activity is felt tracing! In small groups, you can provide your students with a piece of felt, then call out sight words and have them practice tracing their sight words on the felt with their fingers.

It’s a little harder to see but we are going for feeling the formation in the sand and your students will see it if they do it big enough. Grab some normal sand and put it in any tray you have in your classroom and the effect is just the same. Sight Word Sand Writing (Playground Sand)ĭon’t have craft sand? No worries. (Many teachers do this one activity with all words because it is durable, easy to keep, and multi-sensory). The bumpy feeling will create a fun writing experience for your students. Just put the paper over the mesh and write your words.

One of them is to provide a bumpy surface to write words on. We love these plastic mesh sheets and use them for all sorts of things in class. This is a great one for storage and because you can stack them and pull them out when you need them. We have the sand in the small photo iris boxes (the ones that go in the colorful bins and used our old Lakeshore alphabet stampers. This is another fun way to practice sight words – kinetic sand and alphabet dough stampers. Combine that with a color tray (ours is from Target Dollar Spot) and it’s even more fun! A simple shake of the bin and the tray resets itself to be ready for the next word (sometimes that’s the funniest part). You can even get fancy and order craft sand in fancy colors. Students will use their fingers to write the word, activating all those nerve endings. Writing sight words in sand can be a super fun activity for students. from a dry erase board where you write the word you want your students to write.from a targeted word list like from our Editable Word List Printables.whole group at their desks with everyone working on the same word.These activities can be done as standalone activities or using any other “traditional” practice activities to add a multi-sensory component.

Sight word lesson plans for 1st grade