Sight Word Go Fish

Are you ready for another fun sight word game? This game uses the Sight Word Printable Flashcards from yesterday. You’ll want to print out 3 pages, 2 copies of each. Any more than that, and the game will get too long to keep most youngsters interested. But feel free to pick out more, and just use 20-25 pairs each time you play.

We played a two player game. Our kindergartener is still learning his sight words, so he hung out in dad’s lap while I played against them. I think kids like to learn when they get to be in your lap. And it made the game more fun and didn’t put a lot of pressure on him to know all of his sight words. Great for an emerging learner.

Here is how to play:
Use 20-25 pairs of words (so, two cards of each word)

Deal 8 cards to each player, if playing with two people. If playing with more than two people, deal 6 to each. Put the remainder in a pile, face down, in the middle.

The first player selects a card from their hand, and asks another player if they have the matching card in their hand. “Do you have ‘the’ in your hand?”

If the second player does, they surrender the card to the first player. The first player lays the pair in front of them, they have a point! The first player continues, asking for a specific sight word card.

When the player encounters a “no”, they are told, “no, go fish!” They draw a card from the pile in the middle, and their turn is over. UNLESS they draw the card they were looking for. They then get to say “Fished what I wanted!” Their turn continues.

Each time a player doesn’t get the card they want, the next player in the circle gets a turn.

When someone runs out of cards in their hand, they pull the top two cards from the deck.

Keep playing until there are no more cards. The person with the most points wins.