Sight Words Swat — English Word Race with Swatters

Parent guides: How to Teach Your Child English at Home: Letters, Words and Songs, by Age · Teaching Kids Letters and Numbers Through Play, in Arabic and English

1. Spread all the word cards face up on a table.
2. Give each player a swatter.
3. One person calls out a word.
4. The players race to swat the card carrying that word.
5. Whoever hits it first keeps the card; most cards at the end wins.

• Recognising common English words on sight, which is how fluent reading works
• Fast visual scanning across many similar-looking cards
• Playing to a rule under pressure, including losing a round
• Vocabulary, reinforced by every round played

• Start with ten cards rather than the whole set
• Read the word after swatting it, so it is said as well as seen
• Let the caller be a player too, on the next word