Kindergarten Sight Words

     In the current year I have been working with Kindergarten, I have taught for a couple of years. Each year comes with different challenges and new motivations.  Nowadays Kindergarten students are required to fluently read and write.  When it comes to reading, first step I follow in my classroom is to teach students the letter sounds and letter recognition.  The second step, I introduce as soon as possible are the sight words.  Reading sight words can get a little tricky for 5 and 6 year old children, specially because they can't read them as easily as CVC words.  

Techniques for Sight Words

     I write the sight words in index cards, I make a list of 30 or so words per quarter.  Every day during small group students repeat the 30 words out loud, eventually they will start reading the words without my assistance.  This has amazingly worked this year in my class! 

Morning Work

     Every morning since October our morning work has been writing sentences and correcting them.  At the begging it seemed it was unreal and difficult in kindergarten but eventually students start getting better at it!  They were correcting sentences by identifying upper case letters at the beginning of a sentence and punctuation mark.  Further on we started filling in the blanks in sentences. 

Sight Word Practice

     For the last couple of months it has become  a little more challenging for my students. Most of them know the sight words and needed a different type of work. I came up with some worksheets that have improved their reading and practice sight words at the same time! These worksheet include CVC words and sight words that have been taught through the year. They have worked wonders in my classroom and I'm sharing a FREE page as a sample! Just click on the worksheet below and it will direct you to your free worksheet!