1st grade
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.
Sight word worksheet · Memory game
Sight Word Memory Game
16 cards, eight pairs of color and number words. Cut them out, turn them face down and find the matches.
- Grade level
- Kindergarten
- 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
oneMemory gamethreebrownyellowfunnyblackfourtwo
Teacher tip
Kids must read both cards out loud on every turn.
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 guess from the first letter. Ask them to look at the whole word, all the way to the end.
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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