Sight Word Activities

I have just posted 3 sight word activities that I use with my students every week.  You can get them for just $1 here.  Every week, my students are given 6 sight words for homework, and along with the homework packet, we also practice them in the classroom during reading.  I have my students do an activity each day to practice their words.
On Monday, the students get their words and copy them into their homework packet for morning work.  Then during reading they complete their "Read, Trace, Write, and Color" worksheet.

On Tuesday, the students get the ABC/color page to complete during reading.

On Wednesday, the students complete  the Type & Write page, where they type out each of their words first, then flip the page over and write the words two times each.

On Thursday, the students find their words in a Word Finds, and as they find each word, they write it on the lines provided.

Finally, on Friday, the students complete their Pyramid Writing page for each of their words.  This really helps them when they take their spelling test.

Phonics Journal Rules

I use these phonics journal pages along with weekly word work for the students to put in their reading journal.  It allows them to compare the rules to other rules they know, and to come up with their own words that follow the rules.  This also allows students to spell the words correctly in their journal and reference the words later during writing.

These phonic rule journal pages go along with our weekly word work and Words Their Way word sorts. You can get them on my TPT page.

Read, Trace, Write, Color Sight Word Activity

These are activities that I have my students do each week to go along with their homework words.  On Monday's my students get their homework words (sight words) for the week and a packet with 6 different activities for them to do for homework.  I found that a lot of my students were completing the homework, but not gaining a lot from it.  They were still coming into class and didn't know how to spell the words.  I decided to give them spelling tests at the end of each week, not for a grade but to hold the students responsible for learning their sight words.  Throughout the week, I also decided to hold the students accountable for practicing their sight words in class.  This is one activity that I give to my students (usually on Monday of each week) to help them learn and spell their sight words.

The students are to read the word, then trace the word, then write the word with pencil, then write the word with crayon.  It doesn't take long for the students to complete this activity, but I have seen an improvement in spelling since I started this and other activities in the classroom.

Sight Word Word Finds

I created these word finds to give my students another experience to become familiar and write their sight words that was in a fun "game-like" way.  These word finds are given to the students each week in class, based on the words that we have for homework. The pack includes pre-primer, primer, and 1st grade words.

The students need to look at he word list and find the words in the word find.  Once they have circled the word, they need to write it on the lines, then look for the next word.  This doesn't take the students a long time to complete, but they do enjoy looking for the words.

ENJOY!

Sight Words and Fluency Phrases

I created these sight words and fluency phrases to help my students with their reading and reading confidence.  Some of my students, 2 in particular, had a hard time with their confidence in reading and their fluency was a struggle for them.  When I broke it down, by each list, the students were more confident when reading.  They had to read the words first and the words that they didn't know we went over together and used strategies to help with reading and remembering the words.  Once they read all the words, and were confident in knowing the words, I would time them to show them their improvement.  This meant a lot to the students and really built up their confidence in reading.  Once they were able to read the list of words, I had them move on to the fluency phrases.  The phrases are the words on the list put together, so they know all of the words and just had to practice the fluency piece.  Once they achieved the list and beat or matched their time for the phrases 4 times, I moved them on to the next list of words and phrases.  This really built up my students confidence and fluency while reading in guided reading groups as well as on their own.