Sight Word Activities for 1st Grade

Make learning fun! Sight words are a priority in learning that other skills build on. Sight words, high frequency words, popcorn words, core words...

Whatever your child's school calls them, you are in for a ride! Many of them are NOT going to follow the rules of phonetics. Meaning, just "sounding it out" will not be good enough. We call them sight words because we shouldn't need to sound them out, we should know them by sight. This activity book includes:

Confidence in reading skills for your child, knowing sight words means your child can confidently read 50-75% of a complete sentence!Increased comprehension skills, because they don't have to figure out the word they can focus on understanding the story, concept, etc.20 Word search puzzles20 Word scramble puzzlesAnswer keys in the backAll using words from the most common 1st grade vocabulary lists

Learning to read doesn't have to be writing words repeatedly or putting them in alphabetical order! It can be a source of entertainment, so much fun they won't even realize they're learning!