Kindergarten
Sight Word Memory Game
16 cards, eight pairs of color and number words. Cut them out, turn them face down and find the matches.
Sight word worksheet · Memory game
Sight Word Memory Game
A tricky memory game: eight pairs of look-alike words like them and then, will and well. Read every card you flip.
- Grade level
- 1st grade
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Memory game
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Sight word recognition, Reading fluency, Spelling high-frequency words, Letter formation
What kids do
“Cut out the cards. Turn them over. Flip two: read them both. A match? Keep them!”
Words on this sheet
wellMemory gamewentwillthemwouldverythenwhite
Teacher tip
The look-alike pairs make kids read carefully. Read every card out loud.
How to use it
- Read every word on the sheet out loud together before kids start.
- Use it in a literacy center with a partner who checks the reading.
- Play it again later in the week with a different partner. Repeat play builds speed.
Watch for
Kids who read the words in order from memory. Point to words out of order to check.
Talk about it
- Which word was the hardest to read? Why?
- Can you find one of these words in a book from the class library?
Take it further
Hide the week’s words around the room and send kids on a word hunt with a clipboard.
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