Pre-Primer Sight Words Tic Tac Toe Game Practice Activities
Two students take turns; to place an X or O on a square a student must correctly read the pre-primer sight word in that square aloud; three in a row wins.
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Two students take turns; to place an X or O on a square a student must correctly read the pre-primer sight word in that square aloud; three in a row wins.
Two students take turns; a player must correctly read a sight word aloud before marking that space with X or O; first to get three in a row wins.
Includes: 6 tic-tac-toe gameboard pages, each with 9 sight words arranged in a 3x3 grid, covering all 52 Dolch primer words (the word list wraps and repeats 'ALL' and…
Use printed, laminated, cut cards to practice and review sight words individually or via a memory-matching game with a partner.
Participate in group lessons/games (Chapter One opens with 'Word Outlines') and complete individual worksheets; exact activity list beyond the first table-of-contents entry not sampled.
Roll a die to select a column of sight words, pick a word from that column, then find and color one matching instance of that word in a grid.
Roll a die to determine which column of sight words to pick from, read the chosen word aloud, then color one box containing that word; repeat to play, working through 5 words per page.
Includes: 10 worksheet pages, each covering 5 primer sight words (sets #01-05 through at least #21-25 seen) in a 'roll the dice / read it / color it' grid
Pick a target sight word, scan a grid of repeated words to find and check/color each matching instance.
Look at 5 target sight words per page, then scan a grid of shapes each labeled with a word in capital letters, find the shapes matching each target word, and color them in.
Includes: 11 color-by-word practice pages, each presenting 5 target sight words above a grid of shapes individually labeled with words to find and color
Look at 5 target sight words per page, then scan a grid of shapes each labeled with a word in capital letters, find the shapes matching each target word, and color them in.
Includes: 8 color-by-word practice pages, each presenting 5 target sight words above a grid of shapes individually labeled with words to find and color
Look at 5 target sight words per page, then scan a grid of shapes each labeled with a word in capital letters, find the shapes matching each target word, and color them in.
Includes: 20 color-by-word practice pages, each presenting 5 target sight words above a grid of shapes individually labeled with words to find and color
Roll a die, read the sight word indicated by the roll ('READ IT'), and color that word within a grid mixing the target words with a distractor word ('COLOR IT'); repeat to practice all words in the group.
Includes: 5-word grid mixing the target words with a distractor word, colored in based on the die roll
Each student holds one or more cards; a student reads their 'I HAVE [word]' prompt aloud, then another student whose card answers the linked 'WHO HAS?' clue responds, continuing the loop around the group.
Includes: 25-page PDF of 'I HAVE ___ / WHO HAS? ___' card pairs covering Fry's first 100 words (1-100), color-coded, intended to be printed and cut apart for a…
Pick a target sight word for the group shown ('PICK A WORD'), find and check/color every matching copy of that word within a grid that also contains one distractor word repeated in the same grid.
Includes: 8x7 word grid mixing the target word with one distractor word, colored/checked to find all matches
Read aloud a short poem ('Where's the Penguin? Little penguin, little penguin, let's play seek and find! Which snowball are you hiding behind?'), then read/recognize sight word cards arranged in a pocket chart or on a tabletop to guess which word card is hiding one of three penguin cards.
Includes: short 'Where's the Penguin?' poem/instructions page (appears twice)
Read aloud a short poem ('Where's the Penguin? Little penguin, little penguin, let's play seek and find! Which snowball are you hiding behind?'), then read/recognize sight word cards arranged in a pocket chart or on a tabletop to guess which word card is hiding one of three penguin cards.
Includes: short 'Where's the Penguin?' poem/instructions page (appears twice) · 52 primer sight word cards (one word per card, printed in pairs on pages)
Circle and color a target letter within sight words, fill in a missing letter and read the completed word, guess a missing letter ('Lost Letter'), play a sight-word letter card game, complete color-the-word-hunt puzzles, play a Tic Tac Bingo sight word game, and fill in missing sight words in sentences/lists
Includes: 5 Circle and Color the Letter in Sight Words worksheets · 5 Print the Letter in Sight Words worksheets (fill in missing letter, then read word) · 5 Lost Letter: guess the missing letter worksheets, with answer keys
Play bingo: mark called-out sight words on an individual bingo card with small markers; the first student to get 5 in a row wins.
Includes: how-to-use instructions page · informational page explaining the history and purpose of Dolch sight words · a full Pre-Primer Dolch word list page and a matching progress-tracking checklist page
Students read/practice each printed sight word card (one leaf card per word) in games or center activities; specific game format is not described beyond the card set itself.
Includes: 40 leaf-shaped sight word cards covering the pre-primer sight word list
Read aloud a short poem ('Where's the Penguin? Little penguin, let's play seek and find! Which snowball are you hiding behind?'), then read/recognize sight word cards arranged in a pocket chart or on a tabletop to guess which word card is hiding one of three penguin cards.
Includes: short 'Where's the Penguin?' poem/instructions page (appears twice)
Play sight-word games (bingo, word search, 'Ducks in a Row', 'Goal!'), make a color book, read contractions and question words, identify opposites, build/read/change words, complete sentence frames, and complete a mastery test and progress-monitoring form.
Includes: Unit 9 overview/teaching notes · Lesson Objectives for 10 lessons · My Book of Colors
Students roll the dice and move along the board; landing on a white space requires correctly saying the sight word on that space to score a point (yellow = move up a ladder, purple = move down a snake); players track points on a tally chart, and the first to the finish line earns 10 bonus points.
Includes: how-to-play handout · blank board template (add your own words) · 2 pre-primer sight-word boards
Roll a die; the number rolled determines which column of five sight words the student picks from; the student reads the chosen word aloud and colors one box containing that word in its assigned color.
Includes: 8-page set covering pre-primer sight words #01-40 in groups of 5, each page with a die-based word selection grid to read and color
Students read/practice each printed sight word card (one leaf card per word) in games or center activities; specific game format is not described beyond the card set itself.
Includes: 52 leaf-shaped sight word cards covering the primer sight word list
Read, sort, match, or play games with printed sight word cards to build sight word recognition.
Includes: printable flower sight word cards covering the primer / kindergarten list