Sight Word Practice Mats



Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.
Practicing sight words just got a lot more fun and hands on! These sight word practice mats allow students to practice making the words using playdough, wikki sticks, mini erasers and more. They can also be tracing mats and students can use dry erase markers to write each word with guidance.
Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.


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Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.

Sight Word Mats - What's Included

Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.
Sight word practice mats come with 90 high frequency words for you to use with your students. Just pick the words you want to use and print them. There is a black and white set and a colored set included. The words included are:

a, all, am, an, and, are, as, at, away, be, big, but, by, came, can, cat, come, dad, did, do, does, dog, down, for, from, get, give, go, good, got, had, has, have, he, help, her, here, him, his, I, in, is, it, jump, like, little, look, love, me, mom, my, no, not, now, of, off, on, one, or, our, play, said, see, she, so, that, the, there, they, this, to, too, two, up, use, want, was, we, went, were, what, when, where, who, why, will, with, yes, you, your

There is also a Powerpoint file included if you want to add other words. To make the editable files match the rest of the sight word mats, you will want the font KG Primary Penmanship 2 downloaded to your computer. Then in Powerpoint you will need to adjust the font to around size 550, bold, with a white fill and a black outline. Then it should match the 90 words that are included.


 Sight Word Mats - How to Use

Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.
To use these mats, print out the words you want students to practice. Laminate or use these reusable plastic pouches to protect the mats.

Decide how you want students to practice the words:
-Playdough
-Dry Erase Markers
-Wikki Stix
-Mini Erasers

These are just some ideas. There are so many hands on ways that students can form the letters to spell each word.

Have students form each letter. Once the word is finished, have students read the word then clear their board and try a new word.
Sight word practice mats are awesome for practicing high frequency words in a hands on way. Makes a GREAT literacy center. Click to find out about the different ways to practice sight words.

To print mini versions of the sight word practice mats like in the picture above, you will need to adjust the settings when you print the PDF file. Click on "multiple" in the printer setting and adjust how many you want printed per page. This is a great paper saving option and students are still able to practice the words using a variety of hands on tools.


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