Are your students struggling with SIGHT WORDS?

Learning sight words seems to always be a struggle for some students. I try to find every way possible to help my students learn them. I even made a PowerPoint slideshow with each student holding one of the 75 Fry Words they are required to learn. They love seeing themselves and their classmates on the Promethean board.

These sight word emergent readers that I created have also been a big hit. They are great for guided reading groups and take home readers. My students love reading to their parents each night. These readers are just one more way of helping my students who struggle with learning sight words.

Here is my newest Bundle of sight word emergent readers which includes the first 25 (List 1) of the First Hundred most frequently used sight words. 

Students can benefit from these readers by tracking print, identifying spaces between words, identifying particular letters of the alphabet, recognizing sounds (beginning, middle, and ending) in each word, and reading sight words and grade level text. For extension activities, students could add another sentence to each page giving details about each picture shown. The black and white pictures allow students the opportunity to color the pictures. This reader is great for guided reading groups, homework, or literacy center activities. 

This 650 page bundle includes five bundles of five emergent readers totaling 25 readers. One reader is included for each of these sight words: the, of, and, a, to (bundle 1), in, is, you, that, it (bundle 2), he, was, for, on, are (bundle 3), as, with, his, they, I (bundle 4), at, be, this, have, and from (bundle 5) which are connected to several CCGPS listed below. 

These readers are also available in bundles of five readers and individual readers as shown below. 

You can find PREVIEWS for each of the emergent readers included in this bundle 

at the links below or by clicking on the pictures above:

Emergent Reader Sight Words BUNDLE (at, be, this, have, from)

Emergent Reader Sight Words BUNDLE (the, of, and, a, to)

Emergent Reader Sight Words BUNDLE (in, is, you, that, it)

Emergent Reader Sight Words BUNDLE (he, was, for, on, are)

Emergent Reader Sight Words BUNDLE (as, with, his, they, I)

Each of the 25 readers includes this description: 

This 13 page book includes a title page with bubble letters spelling the focused sight word for students to color, and then 10 pages include a black and white picture at the top of each page with a sentence using the focused sight word. There are two more pages asking students to draw a picture of their own and write a sentence of their own using the sight word. The final page asks students to trace the sight word three times, and then write it three times on their own on the blank line. After this, there are 13 additional pages with the exact pictures and words as the first 13 pages. The only difference is that on this second copy of the book, the sight word being focused on is dotted on each page for students to trace.

The photos below show a few of the individual readers IN ACTION! Only four pages are shown for each reader below. Each reader has 26 pages with the two versions for differentiation as mentioned above. 

The pages of the book are not numbered giving the teacher flexibility of removing pages not desired when using in small guided reading groups for differentiation. 

Each book is designed so that you can copy the book, cut in half, staple, and then it is ready for use.

Here are previews of some of the individual readers.

Each reader is connected to these standards:

ELACCKRF1a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.
ELACCKRF1d. Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
ELACCKRF1b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
ELACCKRF1c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. ELACCKRF3a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of more frequent sounds for each consonant. 
ELACCKRF3c. Read common high-frequency words by sight. 
ELACCKRF4. Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. 

I hope you and your students find these readers to be useful for helping your struggling readers and for sight word practice and reading fluency. 

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by! 

Leave me a comment below telling me what you do to help your students who struggle with learning sight words.

February Morning Work (FREEBIE SAMPLE)

How many of you find your mornings to be hectic as students arrive? If you are like some classrooms, your students do not all arrive at the same time. When students do arrive, you have notes, folders, money, and so much more to collect and organize. Do your students get a little anxious and rowdy during this time? If so, why not give students something to work on that is meaningful? 

Try this February Morning Work Sample to see if it helps get you and your students settled into each day so you can get organized and leave the chaos behind. Language arts and math skills are both included daily in this set. 

You can get this FREEBIE SAMPLE to try HERE! 

If you like what you see and are interested, 

you can find the entire product HERE! 

I hope you and your students have some great, smooth mornings ahead! 

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Kindergarten Writing at the Beginning of the Year!

I always seem so overwhelmed when I give my kindergarten students a writing paper for the very first time. I know how their writing must look to be prepared for first grade, and when I see their very first writing, I always cringe wondering if we will ever make it to mastery level.

I have learned that MODELING is the key to kindergarten writing. Students must see you write everyday as you discuss what good writers do.

We have been writing using our daily sight words and learning to "stretch" our words as we write during these first two weeks of school. During this past week, we chose a couple of days to write about particular colors. We named and made a chart with things that are red and then named yellow items another day. As students named an item of the color, the student said the sentence they would write using our sight words "see" and "the" as I modeled writing the sentence on chart paper.

After modeling, the students had their turn to draw something that color and write a sentence to tell about it. Some of them did a really good job. Here are a few of the writing samples.

The strawberry is red.

The flower is red.

I see a yellow banana.

We still have a long way to go to get them and all of the other students where they need to be by the end of kindergarten, but I know we can do it with a lot of modeling, patience, and daily writing practice. Stay tuned for more writing samples throughout the year.

If you have any writing ideas to share, please comment below. I would love to hear from you.

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Kindergarten - Day 6 - Emergent Reader

My first emergent reader for the year was a success! The students loved it! I know they are at home tonight showing off their reading skills to their parents. 

The students felt so successful as they tracked the words, traced the sight word "the," and colored the color word and picture the correct color. I'm so excited for them. I can't wait to see how much their reading skills grow this school year. 

These readers are perfect for guided reading groups and for take home readers. This reader has 13 pages, but can be shortened if needed. I did not put page numbers on these to give the teacher flexibility in choosing the pages she wants to use. Here are a few of the pages in the emergent reader that we read today. 

If you are interested in this reader, you can find it HERE! 

I have many more EMERGENT READERS available HERE! 

I already have more of my sight word readers copied, cut, stapled, and ready for next week. I'm excited to see my students excited about reading! 

Emergent Reader: Sight Word: the
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: of
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: and
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: a
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: to
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: in
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: is
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: you
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: that
Emergent Reader: Sight Word: it

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KINDERGARTEN STOCK UP! (613 pages at 75% off for the end of year, summer, or back to school)

The end of the year is almost here! You can help keep students on task up until the end with this SUPER BUNDLE loaded with printables and activities for the end of the year. 

This bundle is also great for summer school and back to school!

You can mix some of the printables and create a comprehensive summer practice book for your students. A wide variety of concepts is covered including sight words, addition, subtraction, alphabet, shapes, and much more! Many learning approaches are covered such as printables, brain breaks, centers, thematic units, and more!

I have teamed up with some of my teacher friends to load you up with resources to make teaching a bit easier!  These resources are good for your final days of school, creating a summer review pack for your students, and even for back to school. You don't want to pass up this great DEAL at 75% off! STOCK UP for now and later with this great deal!

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Sight words

Addition
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Months (great little calendar activity)

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Pocket Chart Activities (Color Word Sentences)

Hello everyone! I don't know about you, but literacy centers are an important part of my daily routine in my kindergarten classroom. Items you put in your literacy center can cover such a wide range of skills throughout the year. Literacy centers usually include items that the students consider "fun," and they really don't even consider it work which is a great "win" for the teacher. Students are having fun and learning at the same time.

I was hoping to get this teaching resource up and going in my classroom and take photos of it in action before I posted it, but with all of this beginning of the year testing, I didn't get that accomplished. Hopefully you can imagine it in use.

This Pocket Chart Activity for Color Word Sentences is great for a literacy center or for students who finish their work early during the BACK TO SCHOOL season. These sentences focus on color words (red, green, brown, blue, purple, yellow, orange, black, and white) and the sight words "the" and "is." 

Creating or unscrambling each sentence helps the students focus on looking for the capital letter for the first word in the sentence and looking for the ending punctuation mark for the last word. The words that go together to make a complete sentence all have the same picture on the card. Also, each sentence has the words written in matching colors so that students can sort the cards by color/picture and then put the sentence in the correct order by finding the capital letter and ending punctuation mark.

               

 

              

  

                    

    

After the students correctly unscramble each sentence, they can write the complete sentence on the recording sheet provided. This provides evidence for the teacher showing what sentences the students unscramble in the center making the students accountable for their work. A recording sheet is included for each of the nine sentences.

To use, I would print each page on cardstock, laminate for durability, cut apart, and put the cards in a Ziploc bag and put in a literacy center with a pocket chart for students to unscramble. 

***If you do not have a pocket chart, the sentences can still be used simply by having students place the words or the floor or table.

You can click on any of the photos above to access it or click HERE! 

I hope your students ENJOY this pocket chart activity. 

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