Halloween Sight Word
Practice
Add a little Halloween fun to your sight word practice! Two great stories that use repeated text and
high frequency words can be found in the Hameray Publishing catalog.
With repeated sentence structure and picture support for the
word that changes in each sentence, Halloween Night is a fun and easy
read for your beginning readers.
If you're looking for a little bit more of a challenge, Joy
Cowley's Spooky House is a good choice. Two children approach a haunted
house, becoming progressively more frightened as they move deeper into the
house. Finally, they see and hear
something that causes them to turn tail and run, all the while convincing
themselves that they are very brave.
As you can see, there are many sight words included in both
books. The repetitive text makes it
easy for even your approaching level readers to pick up the rhythm of the
words.
A fun follow up activity is to play Read-the-Room Halloween
Style.
It's a simple game to play with your whole class, or you can
set it up as center. Simply take the
numbered cards and place them around the room.
Place the sight word cards in a pocket chart or display on
the board for the children to refer to while they read the room. They will copy the word onto their answer
sheet that complete the sentence on their card as they move from card to card.
You can find this FREE resource by clicking on any of the above pictures of the resource.
So take advantage of the excitement of Halloween and the
abundance of great Halloween stories to squeeze in some fun Halloween themed
sight word practice!
