Sight Words for Emergent Readers

Learning sight words is such an important skill in the early years, integral to learning to read. In Australia we are asking the children earlier and earlier to start recognising sight words. In my last school, we required children entering Year 1 to know about 70 words. Many children do achieve this goal but, of course, there are those little chickens who struggle to remember 10, let alone 70! 

I have developed some packages for beginning readers learning their sight words. They are designed to teach, consolidate or review groups of Dolch words, depending on the needs of the children. They are perfect for differentiation. The packages are composed of a mixture of worksheets, games and flashcards. Many of the materials can be used in Literacy Centers (Centres - for us Australians!) or for individual work and there are some whole class games also. I have included a small and large set of flashcards. These can be used for any number of different games and I have included a page of suggestions. You could also use the large flashcards for your word wall. 

Click here to go to my TpT shop to download this package.

The words included in this package are: 

the, to, and, he, a, I, you, it, of, in, was, said, this, that, she, for, on, they, but, had.

Activities and games included are:

Read it, Write it, Glue it

Find the Words

I have...Who has...

Flashcard game suggestions

Monster game

Commando game

Small flashcards

Large flashcards

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The words included Package 2 are: 

at, him, with, up, all, look, is, there, her, some, out, as, be, gave, go, we, am, then, little, down.

Activities and games included are:

Read it, Write it, Glue it

Word Sort

Spin-a-Word

I have...Who has...

4-in-a-Row

Flashcard game suggestions

Monster game

Commando game

Small flashcards

Large flashcards

Click here to go to my TpT shop to download this package.

The words included in this package are: 

do, can, could, when, did, what, so, see, not, were, get, them, like, one, this, my, would, me, will, yes.

Activities and games included are:

Sight Word Graphing 

Read it, Color it, Build it. 

Bingo

Cover Four

Flashcard game suggestions 

Small flashcards 

Large flashcards

As you may have noticed, all the packages have different colored monsters. These monsters are on all the worksheets and games to allow for easy organization and makes it easy to find homes for stray games pieces and flashcards!

Have fun and ...

Time to change direction

After a long and rewarding career in teaching it is time for a change. 36 years - that's about one thousand children I have taught from Kindergarten to Year 7 and everything in between. It's time to change direction, steer a different path. I didn't think I could leave education entirely...so that's why I am starting something I have been thinking about for a couple of years now.

I have opened a shop on Teachers Pay Teachers. I am going to package up all the ideas that are spinning through my head, all the games, worksheets and activities that are floating around on my numerous flash-drives. All the things I didn't have time for when I was teaching full-time!

Do you know the game of Scoot? It was a favourite in my class last year. It's a great educational game for kiddies who like to move around.

Here is a freebie...

Click here to go to my shop and download the game.

This particular Scoot! game is all about halves. The kiddies have to decide whether a picture is half shaded or not or a group has half of the pictures coloured. They are asked  to identify how many is half of a group. The kiddies need to have been introduced to halves before they play this game. It is designed to practise and consolidate their knowledge.

I hope you and your class enjoy this. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment and rating the product at the bottom of the TpT page.

Have fun and...