Heart word activities

Learning sight words and high frequency words is difficult for new readers. But knowing how to read these words is essential for students to develop reading fluency. Focusing on heart words is a great way to help students learn to read and spell these important words. Head over to this blog post to find out how this veteran kindergarten teacher uses a consistent routine to help her students work on heart words all year long. You too can use these fun, engaging and effective activities.

FREE sight word activity for kids! Write the words in white crayon and then color the hearts with marker to make them magically appear. So simple and fun! This would be a perfect idea for Valentine's Day.

We all know that students love engaging, hands on activities even when they are use them for learning, so I know they are going to love these sight word games! Whether you use them in small groups or as literacy center activities, your kindergartens students will love practicing sight words with these fun activities.

Using what we know about Science of Reading, this post explains how to build sight word mastery by mapping out words.

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Kindergarten Heart Word Playdough Mats Based on 95 Phonics Core Program High-Frequency Words. Fun and engaging centers activity.

As an early elementary teacher, you have probably heard about sight words, but have you learned about heart words? Heart words are high frequency words that your K-2 students will learn about phonetic sounds and sounds that aren’t phonetic. My early elementary students love learning heart words with multisensory activities. By teaching your students how to use phonics to decode the heart words, they will understand the irregular parts. Check out how to map words with word mapping mats!

Have you heard about using heart words in your early elementary classroom? I love using heart words in a multisensory approach for K-2 students. These high frequency words are perfect for activities like building words, word hunts, sensory writing, and musical words. Play mats, building words, cup stacking and more are great ways for incorporating play into the early elementary classroom. Learn more about helping your early elementary students learn how to read with heart words!

This is a great, versatile template to use with any heart words or high frequency words you plan to introduce to your students. This template can be used with ANY word list. Not sure where to start with heart word instruction? Check out my FREE Heart Word Instructional Routine HERE! Want even more info on heart word instruction? Check out my full blog post HERE!My first graders love using this template to map our new words each week. You can have students color in the irregular, "heart…