A little book with activities for the word ‘they’.
Use this teaching resource to help consolidate student recognition of the sight word ‘so’.
Print and fold the page along the lines to create a little book of activities.
Students read and write the sight word in tasks that include:
- Rainbow Colour It (Students write the word using different colours for each letter)
- Count It (Students count the amount of letters)
- Circle It
- Trace It
- Fix It (Students fill in the missing letters)
- Box It
- Find It
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On this worksheet, students will color the word, color the letters in the word, trace the word, and write the word in a sentence.
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Students will trace and circle the word They. Then they’ll cut out the letters and glue them on the paper to make the word.
Trace the word. Write it in the sentence. Then draw a picture.
On this printable, students will color by number, circle the word, count the letters, trace, and print the word.
This page has large outline letters for painting or coloring the sight word They.
Use glitter, stickers, or markers to trace the giant sight word.
Use an ink dabber, markers, or crayons to color the word they every time it appears on this worksheet.
Trace the word They five times on the primary-ruled paper. Then try to write it two times.
Cut out the letters in the word They and glue them in the correct spaces on the worksheet.
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Are you teaching sight words to young readers?
You’re in the right place!
In this post I’ll show you exactly how to teach sight words using hands-on lessons and free printable sight word books.
But first things first …
What ARE sight words, anyway?
It depends whom you ask.
When reading researchers use the term sight words, they’re referring to the words that a reader recognizes instantly, on sight.
Sight words can also refer to words that our readers encounter frequently when reading. That’s the definition I’ll be using here. We want our readers to know these words instantly as they work to become fluent readers.
It’s time to rethink how we teach sight words.
I used to think that when we teach sight words to young readers, we should teach them as whole words. This is why I used to share a collection of sight word books that taught the words through repeated exposure. (Those will soon disappear from the site and my shop.)
But research is telling us that this isn’t how the brain learns to read.
In order for kids’ brains to make new words a part of their permanent sight word vocabulary (the fancy word for this is orthographic mapping), they need to connect the sounds to the letters.
In other words? Sound it out.
Integrating high-frequency words into phonics lessons allows students to make sense of spelling patterns for these words. – readingrockets.org
I know what you’re thinking.
What about words that we CAN’T sound out?
We call attention to the parts of the word that are phonetic (and there’s usually at least 1-2 of them). Then we teach learners to learn the tricky parts by heart.
How to teach high frequency words to young learners
- First, know our goal here. Our goal is not to teach loads of sight words as whole words, because kids need to connect the sounds to letters when reading. Instead, our goal is to integrate sight word learning with phonics instruction.
- Next, we need to make sure our learners are ready to sound out words. Not sure? Check out this post.
- All set? Great. Name the new word, and have your learner repeat it.
- Name the individual phonemes (sounds) in the word. For example, in the word is, there are two phonemes: /i/ and /z/.
- Spell the sounds. Call attention to any unexpected spelling. In is, we spell /i/ with i and /z/ with s.
- If possible, have your learner read related words. Has and his are great words to read alongside is because they are short vowel words with an s that represents the the /z/ sound.
- Have your learner read connected text. Connected text can be decodable sentences or books.
Watch the video to see a sight word lesson in action …
Where can you find sight word lessons and decodable sight word books?
You’ll find a beginner’s collection below. Enjoy!
P.S. I look forward to adding more of these to our membership site, The Measured Mom Plus. I do not plan to add any more free books to this page. Learn more about membership here.
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Sight words are commonly used words that are an essential part of any educational curriculum.
These high frequency words are part of everyday life, so it is important to teach our students these words on sight so they don’t have to sound them out each time they are encountered.
These sight word books were created out of a desperate need for my own self-contained classroom.
Students in my classroom, verbal and nonverbal, were struggling with identifying, reading, and learning sight words… but they had IEP goals to meet and I had zero curriculum to help them achieve their annual goals.
So I created these sight word readers for them.
Because the district I worked for did not provide a reading curriculum with a specific set of sight words to master, I chose to start with the Dolch word lists and common words found within the grade level curriculums my students were experiencing in inclusion.
{ Grab the Sight Word Readers here. }
In my classroom, this is typically how we use the sight word readers. You don’t have to follow my schedule or plans; make them work for you, your students, and your schedule.
First, it is very individualized. Not every student is reading the same sight word reader every week or at the same time. It depends upon the sight words the student knows, IEP goals, grade level, and so many other factors.
But you know your kids best, so you will best be able to determine how and where to start!
On Monday, I introduce a new sight word reader. This is done during Guided Reading block when we have small group.
On the first day (so Monday), we read the story 5x and then fill in the trace and writing pages of the sight word. After this, either I or the student will take one notecard and create a sight word flash card to add to their binder ring. (Nothing fancy here, just a marker on white notecards, hole punched and put on a binder ring.)
On Tuesday, we will re-read the story again. Then we will begin working through the activity pages. We practice reading our sight words using the flashcards.
On Wednesday, we will re-read the story again. Check all of our work on the activity pages (so essentially we are doing them all again as reinforcement, but we call it “checking our work”). Then I will sign the last page as the certificate of completion for that sight word book. We practice reading sight words using the flashcards.
If there is time at any point during small groups during these days, I will let them color in the pictures.
This is the general schedule for my lower level students. Many of my higher level students will read 2 sight word readers in one week (or try to) on a Monday-Tuesday, then Wednesday-Thursday rotation.
It is very variable… meaning if we have an assembly, field trip, special schedules change, or any alteration to our classroom schedule, this does affect our guided reading block schedule. But ya’ll know about that… us special education teachers are flexible!
{ Grab the Sight Word Readers here. }
The video above is a great preview and demonstration of exactly what you get with each sight word booklet and the activities the students will complete for each sight word.
But let’s take a closer look…
Skills included in each sight word reader include:
• Read it.
• Trace it.
• Write it.
• Find it.
• Color it.
• Cut and paste it.
The sight word booklet also includes a certificate as the last page.
If you’re on the fence about the sight word readers, or want to see a more in-depth look:
• First, watch the video preview to see everything in one book.
• And then download the freebie to try out!
{ Grab the Sight Word Readers here. }
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