Get started with editable sight words with two free center activities. If you’re a British English user, you’ll find activities made just for you included in the pack. I love using my editable pack with word families too. Type any words you’re working on into the editable fields and you have an instant word work center. When you have a black ink copy as well you can easily send it home for an exciting way for kids to practice those new words with their parents.Ĭard games are a fun way to consolidate sight words and involve a lot of reading.Įasily Make Activities for all your Word Workĭon’t forget it doesn’t just need to be sight words. When kids are partnered up they’ll read the words to each other.Īnd of course, games are great for getting kids to read their words. Give each child an activity sheet and you’ve made a game. After all, it’s easy to write, trace, daub or stamp a word without being able to read it. It’s important to make sure your kids are actually reading the words, not just finding words that look the same. Of course having similar activities each month also helps, because kids know what’s needed to complete each activity. Once you’ve done that, having a visual instructions card for both the worksheets and games makes it easier for kids to work without teacher help. It’s wonderful when your kindergarten or first grade students can work independently.įirst, teach kids the routine and procedures for using centers. Kids read it, find it, write and then write it in a sentence. You can also use the following activity sheet to focus on just one word. This multi-sensory approach to learning sight words helps kids remember the word. Have your kids read the word, build it with play dough, make it with letter cut out or magnetic letters, and then write it. Set up a sight word center with the sight word cards the child needs, a tub of playdough, a whiteboard marker, and letters. Sometimes kids need to focus on just one word at a time, particularly when we’re teaching those tricky irregular words. With editable packs, it’s easy to make all the resources I need to ensure my kids are getting as much exposure to the words they need. Studies show that the average child requires between four and fourteen exposures to automatize the recognition of a new word so it’s important that revision words are always included in your activities. There are no guarantees that because you’ve introduced a new word to a child one week they’re going to remember it the following week. If you’re only covering two or three new words that week, use the remaining spaces to include revision words. (But if you’re looking for winter activities, read this blog post.) If you’re getting ready for some fun fall activities, you’re going to love this pack as much as I do. When the pack is reopened, the editable field is clear, ready to type in the words I need for another reading group or child.Īs quickly as that, I have games and activities that are differentiated for the needs of every child in my class. I print off what I need, save the pack, or if I don’t want those words again I just close it. To make a sight word center, I simply type in the words I want once to generate them on each activity sheet or game.
I can easily create a range of sight word practice activities, all with the words I need. When I need centers that have the right words for my kids, editable packs are my ‘go to’. Reduce the Time it Takes to Organize your Sight Word CentersĮditable sight word activities are a huge time saver. It can be, but with editable sight word activities, it isn’t. Children can then learn at their own pace. We can meet the needs of our children by having our sight word and reading stations differentiated. Some children will only need one or two exposures to a new word in order to recognize it again. We know that teaching these words can’t be a one size fits all approach. With that comes a great deal of frustration. When children don’t know these words their reading fluency is greatly impeded. Sight words (words children need to read by sight because they don’t follow a regular phonics pattern) and high frequency words (words that occur frequently in texts) form over half of the words encountered in texts. Have you ever heard a child try to sound out ‘do’? It doesn’t work.
This phonemic awareness is a crucial step in teaching children to read.īut not all words can be ‘sounded out’ or decoded using their phonemes. Teaching reading is a long process which begins with children understanding that letters form sounds and these sounds go together to form words. We’ve all heard the story of the child who goes to school and comes home disappointed after his first day.
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