Work with prekindergarten students in small groups to practice flash cards that contain sight words. Make a set of sight word flash cards from index cards, available at office supply stores. The K12 Reader website contains the Dolch list of frequently used words -- sight words -- and a free downloadable set of cards. As you hold up a card to a group of children, say the sight word that is printed there. After you have read the word aloud, ask the children to repeat the word. Incorporate sight word flash card practice into your daily routine. Make a set for each child to take home. Include a note with the set of cards that asks parents to practice the cards with their children.
Post sight words in a prominent classroom area. Write each sight word on a strip of paper that is large enough for children to see when they are assembled for group instruction or storytime. Use a bulletin board to display the words or tape them directly to a wall. When you read a sight word in a book, stop and point it out on the word wall to the class and repeat the word again. Make the connection between the words that your students hear and understand to the same words on the word wall that they are learning to recognize.
Purchase jumbo-size wooden craft sticks where children's art supplies are sold to make sets of word families for a game to teach sight words. Write a sight word on a stick with a permanent marker. If you choose to write the sight word, "and," write three more words that end with "and," on three more craft sticks to form a word family. Consider "sand," "land" and "band" for the word family. Make up to five sets of word families for the game. Show the children a craft stick with a sight word written on it. Read the word from the stick. Show the children the other members of the sight word's word family. Divide your class into teams and give each team one of the sight word craft sticks. Hide the rest of the sticks from each of the sight word families around the classroom. Let each team hunt for the sticks that contain the words in their sight word's family.