New Zealand Sight Words – Hot Laps Racing Track

An engaging sight word activity …. particularly for your boys.

Build a racing track and drive a toy car along it, reading the sight words as you go.

This resource contains sight words at the Magenta to Orange levels of the NZ reading colour wheel.

Sight words are written on a piece of ‘racing track’. Print them off, laminate, and cut. Use as many pieces as you wish and combine them with the corners, starting grid and finishing line. Your students can design their very own racing track!

You can use this resource to make up all sorts of activities and games. For example …

* Make a racing track that is in the form of a loop. Roll a dice and travel that many spaces along the race track, reading the sight words as you go. Every time you pass the finishing line (chequered squares or flags) you score one point. Who can score 10 points first?

* As above, but when you land on a word you count how many letters it has. You say the word out loud that many times. For example, if you land on the word ‘little’ you say it 6 times.

* The teacher (or a buddy) says a word. Drive your car to that word.

* The teacher (or a buddy) gives a clue to a word. Drive your car to that word. For example, drive your car to a word that starts with b and ends with k. Or, drive your car to a 3 letter word that rhymes with ‘man’.

A different racing track layout can be built each time. Great for your creative learners!

Included:
♦ Track pieces with sight words (Magenta to Orange levels).
♦ Blank track pieces (to add additional words if necessary).
♦ Corners, starting grid and finish line.
♦ Teacher notes and a word list.

Ink friendly - all in black/grey/white.

The font used is ‘NZ Basic Script’. The letter shapes are the same as those recommended in the NZ Ministry of Education Handbook – ‘Teaching Handwriting’. Each word is written on a faint grey line.

It is suggested that you put a little coloured dot on the back of the track pieces before laminating (eg a yellow dot on the back of the track pieces for words at the yellow level). That way if the pieces at each level get muddled, you’ll easily be able to sort them back into the correct groups.

You will need to provide the toy cars.

This resource is very versatile. Print more than one copy to make more track pieces, combine more than one set, etc.

Made on A4 size paper.
4 track pieces (4 words) on each A4 page.

Each track piece measures approximately 130mm x 85mm.
The corners measure approximately 130mm x 130mm
The starting grid measure approximately 130mm x 170mm.

© Suzanne Welch Teaching Resources