Sight Word Poems for Shared Reading & Coloring Kindergarten-1st Grade

These short, simple, fun poems, are full of grade-appropriate High Frequency Dolch List sight words and are perfect for shared reading time with your Kindergarten and 1st Grade beginning readers.

Read these poems with your class while studying the sight words featured in each poem (see list below) and emphasize the rhyming words, the rhythm, and the repetition of words and phrases.. Distribute the corresponding blackline versions of these poetry worksheets for students to reread and to identify and highlight the rhyming words and the sight words you've chosen for study.

For each illustrated, original short poem there are 2 worksheets:

• a full color illustrated version that can be laminated or put in a sheet protector and added to a shared reading collection or literacy center

• an illustrated black and white line drawn version for you to print, copy and hand out to your class for individual rereading to promote fluency. And they can have fun coloring it too or adding their own drawings!!

This 33-page PDF format document contains 15 original poems with a wide selection of high frequency sight words. The specific high frequency Dolch list words used in each poem are listed after the title in the Table of Contents, making it easy to pick out a poem for use when you want to feature specific words.

The No Prep worksheets are ready-to-print. and easy to use. Among the many positive comments from teachers who have used this resource is: "My students LOVED this resource. It was very engaging and easy to use."

The Common Core State standards primarily addressed by this package are:

• RF.K.3c - Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

• SRF.K.2a - Recognize and produce rhyming words

• RF.K.4 - Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.