Editor's Note: This blog was previously published, we're re-sharing it today during the Halloween season.  

by Lesley Boatright

                                                                                                       Add a little Halloween fun to your sight word practice! Two great stories that use repeated text and high-frequency words for the Halloween season can be found at Hameray Publishing. Keep reading to see how you can incorporate these fun titles into lessons for your classroom. 

With repeated sentence structure and picture support for the word that changes in each sentence,   Halloween Night     is a fun and easy read for your beginning readers.

                                                                                        If you're looking for a little bit more of a challenge, Joy Cowley's   Spooky House    is a good choice. Two children approach a haunted house, becoming progressively more frightened as they move deeper into the house. Finally, they see and hear something that causes them to turn tail and run, all the while convincing themselves that they are very brave. 

As you can see below, there are many sight words included in both books. The repetitive text makes it easy for even your approaching level readers to pick up the rhythm of the words.

 A fun follow up activity is to play Read-the-Room: Halloween Style.
 
It's a simple game to play with your whole class, or you can set it up as center. Simply print out the numbered cards at the bottom of this post and place them around the room.

Put the sight word cards in a pocket chart or display on the board for the children to refer to while they read the room. They will copy the word onto their answer sheet that complete the sentence on their card as they move from card to card.

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Lesley Boatright is an Early Childhood/Elementary Education teacher from Southwestern Pennsylvania. After graduating college, she moved to South Florida, where she taught kindergarten in the Palm Beach County School District for 8 years. After having children, she decided (with her husband) that Florida was too far away from the rest of the family, and she moved back to her hometown, where she took a few years off to spend time with her son. She has been teaching in the parochial school system for 18 years now, first at kindergarten, and currently in a first grade classroom. Lesley has also taught 2nd and 3rd grade Spanish and 4th grade social studies. Visit Lesley   at her Facebook page ,   blog ,   Pinterest , and on Teachers Pay Teachers to get great teaching ideas.

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