Free Sight Word Games

Free sight word games are available to play online. There are also word games to play in the classroom to help students learn sight words. In this article are sites for free sight word games and explanation of classroom games.

Free Sight Word Games

Gamequarium has several types of word games. These are explained below:

• Star Words has a word pronounced and the player has to match the shape of it to an outline. The shape of a word is part of word recognition, especially sight words.
• Make a Match is a concentration game. When a match is made, the word is spoken.
• Color Word Memory Game uses the color words.
• Missing Letters has a word which is missing a letter and the player types it in. There is a list of 10 words at the bottom of the page.
• Gisele's Pick and Click has an assortment of word games.
• Spellbound displays a letter for a few seconds, it disappears, and then the player clicks and drags the letters to spell the word.  

More sight word games can be found at Family Learning.org which has links to other sites. Some of the games on here are referenced on other sites as well.

• A cute game is Dinosaur eggs, where you click on the dinosaur egg that has the word that is spoken. When you click the wrong one, nothing happens, so you have to try again. If you get the word right, then you get a leaf on the tree.
• The Dolce Word Games match the sound of the word to the written word.
• The High Frequency Word Games are six games where you drag the correct word to fill in the blank in the sentence.
• In Roy the Zebra, you help a zebra get ready for bed by matching 12 color words. This is a nice game and is fun for kids to play.   

Dolch Sight Word Games

The Dolch sight words are the words that are repeated the most often in the English language. The list contains 220 words. Since these words make up between 50 and 75 percent of our language, these are the words that children need to identify by sight in order to be fluent readers.   

This site: MRCPL.org  has games using the Dolch sight words. In all the games, the word is spoken when the mouse rolls over it. The matching games will not only help kids learn the sight words but also helps their concentration skills. The site also has stories with the sight words highlighted. Frig Magnet Poetry allows the player to make sentences, poems, or stories. When the mouse is moved to a word, it is spoken. In some games, the word is inserted into a sentence.  

Another of the free sight word games to play online is located at Netrover.com. It has many Dolch sight word games. Categories are:

• Listen and Spell
• Listen and Match, which is for two players
• Jigsaw, which says the word and it has to be found in a list.

This site also has hangman games. Some of the links do not work on this site, but the Dolch Games 1, 2, and 3, and the Learn Sight Words by Categories work.