![]() ![]() If you haven’t tried finding smaller words within bigger words as a class discussion, I highly recommend it! We spend a lot of time going through our sight words lists together. For example, we discovered that a box of pasta could make both upper and lower case letters! Another way to practice fine motor development and printing at the same time. So we made do with what we could find, and came up with some great ideas. ![]() When I first began teaching at an inner-city school, we did not have any math supplies or budget to buy them. TIP: If students are using beans or buttons, ask them to record the word they make, and also to count how many beans or buttons it took to make it! They could also record how many of each color they use for some good counting practice. Stencils, clay, beans, buttons – you name it! It’s excellent fine motor practice. We also build our weekly sight words with everything we can get our hands on. I also send a caterpillar home with students at the start of the year so that they can put it up in their own bedrooms! So many parents tell me later that their children fall asleep reading the words on the caterpillar that stretches all across their bedrooms. Students practice while they are waiting for lessons to start, or if they have finished work early. Our sight words caterpillar starts with a smiley head underneath our white board, and grows each day with a new word – usually fiver each week. ![]() I’m sharing lots of ideas from my classroom here, and I’ve included some free samples at the end of this post. I like to keep my literacy centers fresh and engaging so that students are excited to try each new activity! Each new teaching year challenges me to find new and interactive ways to work with sight words in my classroom. ![]()
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