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.

R Blend Phonics Books

I use these phonics books that I created with my word work for the week.  Each week, my students get a new phonics rule within their word sort that they need to follow in order to complete the sort. I use these books to reinforce the rule and then we usually do a journal activity along with it to take it a step further.  I have found that reinforcing the same rule through multiple ways has really helped my students grasp it and apply it into their spelling, writing, and reading.

These books are my R-blends that include books for cr-, dr-, fr-, pr-, and tr-. 

Silent e Phonics Books

As a part of my reading block, I have my students work on a word sort each week and then they also have a phonics activity each day that goes along with the word sort.  I created these books to reinforce their word sort rule.  These are the silent e books wich include a_e, i_e, o_e, and u_e.  There are 4 books total and I will only use 1 a week, so this pack would last me 4 weeks on planning in my room.

This pack includes a book for each silent e vowel listed above.  Each book comes with a title page, 8 picture pages, and a finishing page with all the pictures and the phonics rule.  You can get them here.

Vowel Team Phonics Books

I have recently published my vowel team books to TPT.  You can pick them up in my store.  This pack includes books with vowel teams making the same sound (ex: ai and ay both make the long a sound)

This pack includes books for ai, ay, oa, ow, ee, ea, oi, oy, ue, and ew.  I made these so that my students could see that there are different ways of making the same sound.  In the books, it says that ai and ay make the a sound.

When reading these with my class I have them tell me where it is at in the word, so they see the pattern that most of them have.  ai is in the middle of a word and ay is at the end of the words.  This is not the case for all of these, but it is nice when you can point it out and the students can use it in their writing when they make the connection to spelling, reading, and writing.

short vowel sound books

I created these short vowel sound books to help my students with their short vowel sounds.  I use these with their weekly word sorts.  Each week they will have a new "rule" to follow and learn about. I use these to help support the rule each week.

This pack includes 5 books to print and put together containing the short vowel sounds of a, e, i, o, and u.  Each book has a cover that states the rule, picture pages with the rule and an example, and an ending page that restates the rule and has a picture of each short vowel word.

Spelling

I have created spelling lists to go along with my word sorts for each week.  I started this with my class last year and saw a HUGE improvement in my student's writing and reading.  Each week the students get 6 homework words and a word sort that they work on all week.  Each day they do a different activity to help them practice reading, writing, and spelling these words.  The spelling test is given on Friday and includes their 6 words and 3 words that go along with their word sort rule.  Because we have worked with these words so much in class, and at home, the students usually do a very nice job on the spelling test. If the students happen to miss a word, I call them to my table as a group and go over the words again.  Usually once I go over the words with them they see where they made a mistake and I have them fix it before they take it home.