Sight Word: the

I call the sight word the as one of those "boring" words that the kids have to learn. So I usually teach it by using it in a sentence with words that they already know. I wrote a sentence on the board, and the kids had to work together as a team to form the sentence with foam letters (if you don't have foam letters, printed out laminated letters will also work).
The most important part of the activity was to use a similar sentence on their worksheet to help them remember.