Community reviews for Sight Words Hangman

"Sight Words Hangman comes with many lists of sight words. Once you have chosen a list, the game pronounces a word for the user to choose out of a list of four words. If you are correct, you go to the next word. If you are wrong, the Hangman game at the top draws in a head, followed by the other traditional pieces of the body in the game. I like this as a center or free time activity, but would not use it as a real teaching tool in my classroom. It would be nice if you could customize lists so students would be working on specific words you need them to focus on. That being said, the game does come with many lists of words, including lists that pertain to particular holidays which kids would enjoy."

Drill and practice as part of a hangman game brings back memories from my elementary school days when we did this activity on the blackboard. As an iPad app it becomes a motivational tool to help 1st and 2nd grade students master the 300 most commonly used English Words and boost their basic reading skills. I prefer the flashcard mode over the the hangman mode but students seem to prefer the hangman mode. It contains 40 word lists of 10 words each - with some repetition, of course. There is great flexibility for choosing which list to begin with and whether the preference is for the Easy level or Hard level. This iPad app can always be used in the class as part of drill and practice, for homework as reinforcement, or as a quick review prior to an assessment. Students can hear the word, spell the word, and upon hearing the word - choose it from a list of 4 works. It's a pretty good English Language Arts tool, but will eventually be unnecessary for students who have mastered the 300 sight words. ELL students can control their practice time and hear the correct pronounciation repeated times at their leisure.Competition to get the correct answer prior to being hanged is motivational. It would be a better tool if teachers could add their own word lists.