Practice that feels like a game
Bingo makes children read every word on their card again and again while they listen for the next one. It works for a whole class, a small group or a family game night.More word games
Try the word search maker, the crossword maker and sight word worksheets.In the Australian Curriculum
- FoundationReading some high-frequency words and other familiar words (AC9EFLY14), and reading CVC words.
- Year 1Reading one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns, and more and more high-frequency words.
- MathsNaming numerals to at least 20 in Foundation (AC9MFN01), or recalling addition facts to 20 in Year 2 (AC9M2A02) if you call sums.
The Australian Curriculum doesn’t set a national sight word list. Schools use their own high-frequency lists or the tricky words from their phonics program, so the custom list is often the best fit: paste this week’s words or the words from your decodable readers.
The built-in pre-primer and primer lists come from the American Dolch lists. They share many common words with Australian lists, but check them against yours before a whole-class game.
Summarised in our own words from the Australian Curriculum: English, Version 9.0 (ACARA).
