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Sight Word Hunt - Dolch Primer

Google Slide, PDF | 9 pages | Grades: PK - 1

Practice reading high-frequency words by sight with a set of 8 Dolch Primer Sight Words game boards.

The Primer is the second set of sight words from Dolch’s list of 220 high-frequency words. 

Dolch’s word list is practiced with students so that they can quickly and easily recognize specific words throughout the texts they’ll read. 

In this activity, we’ve split 48 sight words across 8 boards. Students will read the sight words on the mats and cover each word using red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple connecting cubes. 

Practice Reading Dolch Primer Words

Use this resource as a reading center activity, with your guided reading group, or as a whole class activity (see below) to practice reading high-frequency words by sight. 

Players read each sight word on the board and cover it with the matching color connecting cube. Add more players by taking turns!

Scaffolding and Extension Tips + More Dolch Primer Word Practice

Use this resource as independent practice for fast finishers, and for full-class learning opportunities like scoot activities, lesson reviews, formative assessments, and more.

Challenge students who already understand the concept by having them record the sight words on a whiteboard or piece of paper.

Invite students to use a visual reminder, like an anchor chart or an alphabet display, to sound out words they may struggle with. 

Draw It!

This activity can also be used as a formative assessment. Project on the board for the whole class to see. Have each student pick 3 words and write them on a separate sheet of paper. Then, have the students draw a picture for each word, showing they’ve read the word and understand what it is.

Alphabetical Ordering

After students finish the game, challenge them to put the words on their cards in alphabetical order.  

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Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Print on cardstock for added durability and longevity. Place all pieces in a folder or large envelope for easy access. 

Before You Download

Use the drop-down icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter Collaborator. 

 

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Make a Treasure Hunt to Make Sight Words

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31 Oct

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We haven’t done a scavenger hunt since we did our Christmas flashlight scavenger hunt, so I thought it would be fun to make a treasure hunt using a floor plan as the map.

And Henry has had way too many days off for Christmas break (school keeps getting cancelled for cold weather! -20F degrees does that…), so a refresher of sight words was needed.

I made this a treasure hunt to search for the letters of a few of his current list of sight words. Henry would hunt for the letters and put them together to make the sight words.

I drew a floor plan of our first floor. I had a floor plan that I just printed out and traced, but a generalized floor plan of your house would work, or even just a room.

I traced the walls and then added in key pieces of furniture (the couch, chairs, dining room table and so on).

After I chose 5 sight words for Henry to work on: were, what, ask, put, and from, I wrote each of the letters throughout the floor plan map in the places to hide the letters.

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Then I wrote all the letters of the sight words on a piece of paper and cut them all apart.

I then taped those letters around the house in the places that I put on the map. I made them harder than I would on a regular scavenger hunt, since he had a map telling him exactly where they’d be.

Note: Be sure to underline letters that could be mistaken if they were upside down. Such as u and n, p and d, and so on. Do that on both the individual letters that you hide around the house, as well as on the map in case it gets turned around.

Then its time to go on the treasure hunt!

I did all the above during naptime on a day Henry was home from school. He doesn’t nap anymore, but he does play quietly during naptime as a rest period. To get some one on one time with him, we did the treasure hunt while the others were still sleeping.

First, I gave him the map and we went over what it all meant and how to read it. Definitely take as long as you need to make sure they understand it. I quizzed Henry a little, asking him what room each was, and what the pieces of furniture were until I was confident that he understood how to read it right.

Then, with a list of the 5 sight words, I told him to find the letters on the map to spell the sight words and then go find them in their spot around the house.

When he found the letters, he taped them to the word and when he was finished, he put them together in the right order.

And phew, goodness. I’m so glad we reviewed these sight words. Henry completely forgot them!

What’s great about this is you can make a treasure hunt to work on whatever your child is currently working on! It can just be the letters, just numbers, spelling practice. Make it simpler by doing just a room, or your backyard.

Now. Go make a treasure hunt! What will your kids be hunting for?

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Word hunting. 10 thoughts from Ursula Le Guin on writing


Elena Isupova

Ursula Le Guin has taken readers into imaginary worlds for decades. In the last years of her life, she kept a blog. It found a place for various topics: art, politics, feminism, cats, children, literature. The best essays were included in the book Time Busy with Life. We share the thoughts of the writer about her craft: witty, honest, inspiring.

Risky occupation



Life time

Writing is a risky occupation. It does not provide any guarantees. You have to come to terms with this. And I'm happy to put up with it. Well, yes, my things are misread, misunderstood, misinterpreted - and so what? If these are real things, they will survive everything but indifference.


Ursula Le Guin, photo by Marian Wood Kolisch. — Source

In Search of Meaning

Meaning is my curse. “What is the meaning of such and such a book, such and such an episode of a book, such and such a story? Explain what it means." But that's not my job, that's your job. I know, at least in part, what meaning my story has for me. But this does not mean that it will be the same for you. Or at 19In 70, when I wrote the story, it meant one thing to me, and in 1990 or 2011 it meant something else. For some of the readers in 1995, it had a meaning completely different from what it will have in 2022. In Oregon, where I live, they see things in the story that are absolutely meaningless for Istanbul, but in Istanbul, no, no, yes, they see a depth in it that I didn’t even think about ...

Iskrina your friend

under ten years of age. As a connoisseur, I can say that the best ones are made entirely by hand. The computer simplifies the work, but this is not always an advantage: the feeling of lightness encourages the child to hurry. Printed text, with its neat lettering, looks dull and standard, while handwritten writing is full of life. The computer corrects errors, but it also deprives the text of a living originality, which gives me great pleasure as a reader.


Ursula answered those readers' letters that were written on paper. - Source

In a letter printed on a printer, no one will ask me about my favorite part of the book, or my favorite part, or my favorite part. In a letter printed on a printer, you will never meet: "Did you want to write Pachima on cat wings?" And there are not all those great closing phrases like: "Yskrn" - I just could not understand what it was until I met somewhere else: "Yskrine" and "Iskrne". And: “Yours forever” (option: “forever”). And, as a kind of hello to young Jane Austen: "Your friend." And inaccurate mysterious farewells: “Dsv at Derik”, or: “Paka, Ana”.

Paka, brave teachers, paka, brave children! Thank you for the quotes. Dsv at Ursula.

Beetles and words

Words enchant me like a box of bugs enchants my friend Pard. Pard is not allowed outside, and he has to hunt inside. We don't have mice inside. But we have beetles. Oh god, we have bugs! When Pard hears, smells, or sees a beetle, the beetle immediately occupies his entire universe. Pard will stop at nothing. He is ready to dig into the wastebasket, turn over and break small fragile objects, toss large heavy dictionaries...

I know (and I don't like it) that very few people share this passion. Fascination with words, I mean, not with bugs. My passion for hunting for words and their meanings, my willingness to wade through dictionaries and wastebaskets for this. If I start talking out loud in a crowded place, people around me look at me with horror or sympathy, or they try to quietly move away.

Fascination

When asked to describe what I do, I often compare my work to traditional crafts: weaving, pottery, woodcarving. My fascination with the word is most of all similar to the fascination with wood, common among carvers, carpenters, and furniture makers. These people gladly pick up an excellent piece of chestnut wood and begin to twist it this way and that, comprehend its structure, feel it with sensual pleasure, think about what a chestnut tree usually goes for and what exactly they can make of it. They love the tree itself, the object of their craft.

Homer

I was thinking about Homer, and it occurred to me that two of his books are the two main stories for fantasy: the history of the War and the history of the Journey.


You can thank Homer for fantasy. - Source

I'm sure I'm not the only one who came up with this idea. It's always like this with Homer. People constantly turn to him and discover either new things or old things over and over again - and talk about it. This has been going on for two or three thousand years. An astonishingly long time for anything, from anyone's point of view. So, the Iliad is the War (actually only the part of it that is closer to the end, but does not capture it), and the Odyssey is the Journey ("there and back," as Bilbo would say).

Great Books

More recently, I have come to realize that any declaration of literary greatness is unacceptable to me when someone proclaims a single book as the Great American Novel or makes a list of such. These declarations make no sense to me, partly because the implied categories of excellence exclude all genre literature, and partly because award shortlists, recommendation lists, and any canons traditionally and unquestionably include books written by male authors from the eastern United States. But mainly I think so because we cannot judge the greatness of anything until it shows its timelessness. Let it not lose its relevance for quite a long time, at least five or six decades.

Fantasy and reality

Fantasy storytelling can break the laws of physics—when carpets fly and cats become completely invisible except for a smile—as well as the laws of probability, when the youngest of the brothers always gets the bride, and the prince is in a box, thrown into the sea, remains unharmed - but it does not go against reality as such. The mathematical order remains unbreakable. Two plus one will be three both in Koshchei's castle and in Alice's Wonderland (especially in Wonderland). The geometry of Euclid or perhaps Riemann, in short, someone's geometry rules the world. Otherwise, confusion will begin and history will stand.

Film adaptations

A film is a picture, a novel is words. And the most beautiful, most powerful thing in the novel is its language, which not only conveys to us what the writer saw, but also allows us to share it with him as directly as possible to share emotion, sincere grief, indignation and love.

Writer's job

My job as a writer is to write prose, not to find meaning in it. Art is not an explanation. Art is what the artist creates, not what he says about it. (Perhaps I am mistaken, and then it is clear why I have problems with perception

some samples of modern museum art, whose creators always give an interpretation to their works, explain how to perceive them correctly. )

The work of a potter, as for me, is the manufacture of a good pot, and not talk about how, where and why it is made it, for what purpose, how other pots influenced this particular one, what it symbolizes and what emotions you should experience when looking at it. Of course, the master, if desired, can share his interpretation, but it costs

is this to be expected? And for what? I don’t expect this from him, I don’t even want him to have such an idea. All I expect from a good potter is that he will go and fashion another good pot.

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