Parking Lot Game: Idea #162

A great way to practice sight words with your struggling reader is to play the game Parking Lot. It is simple to make and easy to play. Most importantly it is an excellent way to see which sight words your student has mastered and which sight words your student needs more practice with. Here is what you do: 

1. Draw a parking lot on a piece of white paper, or a manila folder, or even poster board. I used a manila folder (mostly because it was what I had). If you would like your student to practice ten sight words, then make ten parking spaces. If you would like your student to practice six sight words, then make six parking spaces. Make sure that the spaces are big enough that a toy car can fit in each parking space.

 
2. In each parking space write a different sight word. 

3. To play the game, give your student the parking lot paper and some toy cars.

 
4. The teacher/parent says a sight word and then the student puts the toy car in the correct parking spot. For example, teacher says, "has." The student then puts the toy car in the has parking spot.

Check out a larger Sight Word Parking Lot on the following blog: http://www.jugglingwithkids.com/2011/10/sight-word-parking-lot.html?showComment=1319571243034

Have fun discovering what sight words your struggling reader already knows!