Have students make their own sight words resource book gluing any of the activities in a notebook.Make two copies of ‘read the word’ or ‘rainbow write the word’ for all sorts of additional fun Sight Word Games.Use the ‘find and color the word’ activity as a check-for-understanding center where students color the focused sight words of the center.Have children color the vowels one color and the consonants other with the ‘rainbow write words’.‘Rainbow write the word’ becomes a fine-motor skills center when children usebeans, beads, small pompoms, or any other small manipulative to fill in the letters.

Dry erase markers make the ‘write the word’ activity perfect for small group time–you say the word or show the word and have them write it from memory or copy it for those students just learning the sight words.

Use Letter Magnets with the ‘build the word’ activity to spell words.Dry erase markers or playdough can be used with the ‘trace the word’ activity.Use the ‘read the word’ activity and different Reading Materials for children to recognize the words in text.Hide ‘read the word’ or ‘rainbow write words’ around the classroom for students to find and write.

The ‘read the word’ activity becomes a set of flash cards, word wall words, or put them on a ring and they become individual sight word practice resources.

Print the sight word activity worksheets on cover stock, laminate some of them, and then cut the activities apart. Differentiating worksheets to create six different small group or centerĪctivities is easy with just some card stock, lamination, and a pair of scissors! These printable worksheets are perfect to use as interventions for students, too. Putting them in sleeve protectors–Instant Word Work Centers! Intervention Resources The black and white worksheets are low ink printables to help you save on a Children will read the word, trace the word, build the word, write the word, rainbow write the word, and find and color the word. Of practice working with the second grade sight words. Then have your child write them in sand.Each worksheet has six different activities to give beginning readers lots Once you’ve taught the words with attention to the spelling patterns ( these sight word worksheets are also great for this), you’re ready for these low prep sight word activities that you can put together in under 15 minutes! Low prep sight word activitiesġ- It takes just 5 minutes to set up Sight Word Sticky Note Match.Just write the words on sticky notes and have your child cover the words on a dry erase board!Ģ – Grab your alphabet stamps and some play dough for this simple sight word activity.ģ – Write the words on sticky notes. That’s why I created my set of sight word lessons with decodable books. The number one thing to do is to teach each word explicitly. The real question is … how can we turn high frequency words INTO sight words? Others tell you that sight words are the high frequency words: the words that kids encounter the most when they read.īut researchers tell us that sight words are words we recognize automatically without needing to sound out or guess. Some people will tell you that sight words are words that kids can’t sound out they just have to learn them by sight. Today I’m sharing some simple sight word activities that you can prepare in minutes!

1st 2nd grade sight word activities