October is here, and that means it is time for some October Sight Word Fun! As promised, I have created some fun sight word activities with a Halloween/Fall feel. This month’s words include am, it, up, no and yes. Just as you found in my September Sight Word Fun set, this set also includes activities for each of the sight words to give your learner lots of sight word practice! The six activities include a sight word hunt, sight word maze, color by sight word, trace/write/illustrate and sight word sort. Ready to take a closer look? Let’s jump in!

Learning Sight Words

Sight words are a must know for any child to learn to read. But as I have said before, learning them is not always the most exciting thing. There is often lots of drilling involved until the sight word sticks to memory. I have found that fun worksheets help my children not only recognize the word, but become familiar with its meaning. They are also more willing to do the work because it doesn’t feel so much like “work”! As always, I test my activities on my own little ones to ensure that they are age appropriate and pass their approval. And believe me, that is no easy task!

October Sight Word Fun

The first activity in this set is a “find the sight word” activity. There is a page for each of the five sight words, using a fun Halloween theme. I chose some familiar Halloween symbols such as pumpkins, bats, cats, spiders and cute ghosts. They are black and white, so your learner can color the page once they have found the specified sight word on the page. You could also just have them circle the sight word if they are not a fan of coloring. We love crayons in our house, so coloring pages are always well received! I love worksheets that can be used in different ways to suit each child’s personal level. 

Next, we are on to a fun maze! There are some adorable trick-or-treaters who need your help to get to the haunted house! There is a maze for each of the sight words, but the maze has a different path each time to make it more fun and challenging. Your child or student can navigate the maze by only landing on the specified sight word. But watch out for the ghouls! This is a cute way to reinforce the word as the more a child sees the word (and reads it), the more likely they are to retain it. I like to encourage my own child to say the word in their head each time they find it.

It’s Not Just Coloring

Do your students or children love to color? Mine do! I always print a ton of seasonally themed coloring pages for my kids to choose from and work on in the morning. It is a great way for them to settle and transition from play to learning. And the best part is, if you use a “color by” coloring sheet, your child will be learning too! For this activity, your child or student will color a cute Halloween themed coloring page by sight word. There are five different coloring pages here, each with all five of the sight words. This teaches not only the sight words, but also colors as well! My own child is still learning to read, so I usually mark the crayons at the top with the color and then allow her to pick those colors from the box. I prefer to do it this way rather than focusing on the color words (since we are really wanting to learn the sight words). But you can make it into any kind of lesson that you want. It is not just a coloring page! 

More Sight Word Fun

Now it is time to move on to what I call “trace, write, illustrate”. As with the other activities, there are five in this set. Each worksheet is for one specific sight word. The first step is to trace the sentence that contains the sight word. You could even have your child circle or highlight the sight word once they have traced. Then, in the space provided, your child can write the same sentence on their own. This is great for writing practice! And as I mentioned before, the more they write or read the sight word, the more likely they are to remember it. Once the sentence has been traced and written, you can then instruct your child or student to illustrate that sentence in the space provided. My child always enjoys these activities because they are completely open to interpretation. You will be amazed to see how you can give the same sentence to several different children and yet get several different illustrations. We all interpret things differently which is what makes this so much fun!

Make It Engaging

It’s time for some sorting! Who doesn’t love some Halloween candy? Unfortunately this is not the kind of candy you can eat. That being said, there are some different ways you could do this activity. You could print the candies and pumpkins as is and just allow your child to sort them at a table. This is the most straightforward way. You could also laminate all of the pieces and add magnets to allow your child to move around and sort them on a magnetic board. Or you could even just use the candy pieces and put each sight word on a plastic pumpkin and allow your child to drop the words into the pumpkin. How fun! However you choose to do it, this activity is great for sorting practice as well as sight word recognition. 

Scaffolding

Finally, we end with a sight word scramble. We have scaffolded our way to this point, so by now your child or student should be pretty familiar with the sight words and able to recognize their spelling. It is time to put that to the test! For these worksheets, your child must circle the correctly spelled sight word and then write the sight word as many times as they can fit in the spaces provided. This is one last way to drive home those sight words and make sure they stick!

I hope that your child will have just as much fun as mine did while completing these fun activities. If it looks like something your child would enjoy, head over to my store to get yours! Not sure if you want to purchase? Check out my September Sight Word Fun printables that are absolutely free! This will give you a feel for what they are like. And stay tuned for more fun sight word activities to come!