Word recognition activities become important as your child begins to show an interest in letters and words that he or she sees around.
Word recognition activities or literacy games can be key to their development in spelling and reading later in life.
These activities will start to make him or her familiar with words that they take special interests in.
If they engage in such activities often they may turn out to be sent readers.
While the purpose of these word activities is not to help your child sound the words phonetically, they help them recognize words as a whole.
You are not limited to words that have a simple phone ticket structure, you can in use words that you have identified means something to your little one.
They are most likely to be motivated by words that they have a special interest in.
If you are looking for word recognition activities ideas to help your child learn to read words, we have put together some popular activities and games that can serve this purpose.
Tic-Tac-Toe
This is a fun and exciting game that uses sight words.
This game requires each student to choose a word and write them in a tic-tac-toe grid.
Every time they write a word, have them read it out.
The first student to write and read three words in a row is declared the winner.
This game is definitely a fun way to engage students in a classroom and to motivate them to learn to read words.
Shaving Cream
This is a game that most children can’t have enough, because they get to play with shaving cream and learn something new.
You can replace shaving cream with white flour or sand, it all depends on what you think is better.
The good thing about using shaving cream is that it leaves your classroom smelling nice when you are done.
Put some shaving cream in front of each student and have them spell words on their desks with the shaving cream using their finger.
It is affordable and does not require any preparations.
Building Towers
This is a very simple and easy game to play.
Every child loves to build things (just as much as they enjoy pulling them).
This game needs a bit of preparation – you need a sharpie, some paper, and plastic cups.
Write words with a sharpie or you can print labels with sight words, and tape each word to plastic cup.
Have them read out each word and build towers with cups as they do so.
When they are done reading the sight words and building the cup tower, have them read the words again as they put the cups away or when they crash.
Word Action
Select eight word cards from the word box (if you have one) and lay them on the floor.
Give your child a series of instructions to follow relating to the words.
For example, “jump to the word elephant. Put a toy fish on fish.”
This is definitely a fun game for both child and parent.