Sight Word Pillowcases

I started creating our Sight Word Pillowcases for this year's winter gifts. I created a stencil using my Cricut machine and use fabric paint and a sponge. I used cardstock for the stencil. As you paint, it dries and thickens, increasing the stencil's longevity. Click here for a previous blog post. :)

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Sight Word Pillow Cases

I am making these pillow cases now so I don't have to worry about it during the busy school year. I will be adding handprints and names to them. I plan on giving these to the children during the holiday season. :) I found the pillow cases online for about $1.50 each and I used fabric markers.


I got the idea from this picture.
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Word Machines

We are talking about ways to recycle and reduce waste for the upcoming Earth Day. We are turning these old egg cartons into Word Machines. The students cut out sight words and glue them into the spaces.



The children use bottled glue.



After the words are put into place, a bean is put into the egg carton and closed.



I asked for egg cartons at the beginning of the school year on my supplies list. Very cheap!



The students then paint the outside and I have been writing Word Machine with puffy paint after they dry in their cubbies. The students shake the bean in their cartons, open, and read the sight word it lands on!



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Sight Word Stars

I know we have an ocean theme but stars ARE above the sea... Our new read and write the room center is "Sight Word Stars." I put 50 stars on the ceiling and the students walk around, stargaze, and write down as many words as they can!







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Sight Word Baskets

We made paper eggs with sight words on them, to use to play the game Memory. My husband made 50 baskets to hold them in.

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Sight Words

To practice sight words earlier this year, I have decided to send home flashcard lists based on the students reading groups. There are 13 word lists, totalling the CCSD's suggested 100 sight words. I put the cards in a bag, with the child's name on it and the parent letter below.

Lists will be sent home Monday and tests will be given Friday. A student will only receive the next list if he/she reads the list with automaticity. I'm not sure if I will also be doing "Spelling Words" this year.

When they know the first 50, they get a gumball for the goal board!

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"Lively Letters" Works

I took a course over the summer that was recommended to me by the school's speech pathologist. She and the literacy specialist used Lively Letters as a Tier 2 intervention for last year's kindergartners. I took the course in hopes of learning some new strategies to help with any speech issues my kids might have, and phonemic awareness ideas.The website is readingwithtlc.com and I have used Lively Letters and Sight Words You Can See. Both programs are worth the money and time for the course!

Sight Words You Can See have mnemonic clues drawn on the flashcards. There is a story for EVERY sight word, so the students remember the story, too.

I have seen a tremendous growth in letter recognition and MOSTLY SOUND PRODUCTION. The growth far surpasses growth I have seen in previous years.

I bought a lot of the products, but to save the program as a Tier 2 intervention, I only use the letter cards and tell the story. Every morning with the children on the carpet, we review the letters we have learned and produce the sounds. I use Trophies' letter sequence and not Lively Letters. There is a a combined sequence, too.

In small groups, we use the letter tiles to blend and segment. Sometimes I set them on taplights and we turn on the light for each sound.

If you live in Las Vegas, there is a Lively Letters workshop Saturday, December 3rd at the Red Rock Casino!

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