Looking for a fun and flexible way to practice sight words in your classroom? These editable color by sight word mystery pictures are the perfect solution!
Whether you're working with sight words, high frequency words, vocabulary words or a customized list from your phonics or spelling program, these printable coloring pages let you easily insert any word list to meet your students' needs.
Designed with engaging food themed images hidden in 100 box grids, these mystery pictures offer engaging, low-prep word work that's ideal for literacy centers, morning work, or homework.
Keep reading to learn how to customize, print, and use these editable sight word activities with your learners today!
Why these mystery pictures?
Finding engaging word work activities that work for the list of words you are using can be tough. The way words are taught varies so much depending on the school.
👉 Some follow a phonics program.
👉 Some still use a specific spelling program that has word patterns.
👉 Some want kids to focus on Dolch words or the Fry list because those are some of the most common words that kids will see in books.
👉 Some want to focus on sight words - the words students can read automatically without having to decode.
How do you find word work practice that includes all those different words?
You don't, but if you have an editable coloring page like these are, you can add ANY words to the pictures. Adjust them completely to your curriculum and your students' needs. You can individualize these in a matter of minutes and give students the exact practice they need.
The mystery pictures keep kids engaged while they are practicing reading and identifying the words. They don't know what the picture will be until they color in all 100 boxes.
What is included?
This freebie includes 5 pages with food related pictures. You will get a pizza, cake, popcorn, donut and hamburger picture. They all look like a blank grid before you started coloring. I've included directions for use and a picture key in the download.
I love the mystery pictures because they are a little more challenging. There are 100 boxes to color in, and it is hard to know from looking at the initial blank grid what the picture will be. Younger kids could definitely do this, but I think it might be easiest for 2nd or 3rd graders.
What can I use Editable Color by Sight Word Pictures for?
There are so many different ways to use these. We often say sight words, but that just means a word you recognize automatically, which is different for every person. Because the pages are editable, you can add ANY words.
Here are some ideas of words you could add:
- Sight Words
- High frequency words
- Spelling patterns
- Heart words
- Word Families
- Vocabulary Words
- Days of the Week
- Months of the Year
- Students' names
- Color words
- Number words
- Foreign language words
How to Add Words to Your Freebie - VIDEO TUTORIAL
How to Change the Font in Your Free File
I have set the font and size to fit most words and not have the weird "a" that many lower elementary classes don't want on their worksheets. However, if you want to change the font or size of the text you can do that in Adobe Acrobat.
Highlight the words you want to adjust and hit control and e at the same time to bring up a small box where you can change the size of the font and the font to anything that is on your computer.
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