I've just finished creating a series of sight word practice sheets.  These cover the Kindergarten words from Fry's Sight Word List 1. 

Fry's Sight Word List - Kindergarten: List 1

the
of
and
to
in
is
you
that
it
he
was
for
on
are
as
with
his
they
at
be
this
have
from

- Not included
I
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I skipped making worksheets for "a" and "I."   In these worksheets students get 5 different ways to practice their sight words.  They get to trace, write, color, circle and cut and glue the word that they are working on.

This whole package will be available for free until Tuesday.  After that time it will be made available for sale on this site.  I do this in order to reward those who are following my blog or my Pinterest or Facebook pages.  This is also the last day that you can get Three Blind Mice - Word Family Game for free and make sure that you enter the My 50 animal fact bookmarks contest.

The free give away of this file is over.  You can now purchase it along with 50 other worksheets.  You can visit my Teaching sight words page to get them.





 
 
Baa, Baa, black sheep, have you any wool?  In this phonics word family game players need to fill up their sacks of wool by completing all of the incomplete words. 
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Players can either choose the master, dame or the little boy who lives down the lane to give their sack to.  This game comes with 4 different game boards, game cards and the Nursery Rhyme poster that you see on your left.  The game will be available for free until next Monday. 

If you want more phonics games to play with your kids you can visit my Phonics page.

The free giveaway of the game is over.  You can now purchase this game along with 3 other Nursery Rhyme themed word family games for  $2.00 on the new websites shop

 
 
In this phonics game players need to choose one of the 3 blind mice and complete all of the words below them by drawing letter cards.  
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This download includes four different game boards.  Covering long and short a, e, i o, and u.  This can be either a two or three player game. 

This is a great way for students to review word families and can be used as a reading center. 

The game will be available for free until Saturday so get you free game soon.  I release my  new creations for free to reward those who are following me on Facebook, Pinterest, or who subscribe to my blog.  If you would like to follow me you can by clicking on the buttons on the right hand corner of this page.

If you would like more games for practicing phonics you can visit my phonics page.

The free giveaway of this game is over.   You can purchase this game along with 3 other Nursery Rhyme Themed Word Family games for $2.00 on the new websites shop

 
 
School Sparks has a great game called Sight Word Safari that they've made available for free on their site.  This game allows kids to practice their first grade sight words by having them try to collect all  five animal cards.  You can get your free copy of the game by clicking on the picture below or on the School Sparks link.  If you would like more games or ideas for teaching sight words please visit my Teaching Sight Words page.
 
 
Here are 5 new game boards to practice the phonics skill of initial consonant digraphs.  If you missed the initial consonant or initial consonant blends board games you can download them on my phonics page.

These five board games will let your students practice:  ch, gh, kn, sh, th, wh, and wr digraphs.  They will have to say the sound of the digraph when they land on it and a word that starts with that sound.
Snake Sounds
Snake Sounds Digraphs
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Cinderella's Shoes
Cinderellas ShoesDigraphs
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Beehive
Beehive Digraphs
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Bunny Hop
Bunny hop Digraphs
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Give the mouse a cookie
Give the mouse a cookie Digraphs
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So I've got five new phonics board games for you.  These are similar to the ones that I did yesterday except they are now covering initial consonant blends.  Below each picture of the games you will find the link to the game.

In each game students roll the dice and move that many spaces on the game board.  They then have to say the sound of the consonant blend that they've landed on and say a word that starts with the sound.  The first one to the end wins!

If you missed yesterdays games you can get them all on my phonics page.
Snake Sounds BegBlends
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CinderellaShoesBlends
File Size: 534 kb
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BeehiveBlends
File Size: 720 kb
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BunnyHopBlends
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GivethemouseacookieBlends
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I've got a new page on my website called Dictionary Games and Activities and to celebrate this new page I'm giving a brand new game away free until Monday. 
Dictionary Game
Dictionary Detective
To play this game you give students a series of clues and have them search the dictionary to find words that that match all of those clues.  They will enjoy trying to find more than one word that matches all of the clues. The file below has 64 different game cards.   

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop

 
 
Differentiation Station has a great center activity to let students practice their affixes.  Students just need to match words with their affix.  Check out this blog for this cute free printable. 
 
 
This is an idea by Brown, Phillips, and Stephens (1993),  in which, students have bookmark that they can write down unfamiliar words that they come across.   This is a great way for students to monitor their own understanding of what they are reading.  This activity also allows students to make their own vocabulary word lists so the words that they are learning are individualized.  

On the front of the bookmark students will write the title of the book they are reading along with the author of the book.  On the back students will write new words that they come across. 
It is suggested that you can laminate the bookmarks to use them repeatedly but I prefer for students to use a new bookmark for each book that they read.  This way students have a record of all that they have read.  If you have students keep a vocabulary journal you can have them transfer the words they collect on their vocabmarks to their journals.  

If you would like more ideas for teaching vocabulary you can visit my vocabulary activities or vocabulary games pages.
Vocabmark
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Brown, J. E., Phillips, L., & Stephens, L. (1993).  Toward Literacy; Theory and applications for teaching writing in the content areas.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers, ITP.
 
 
Place a word in the center of the flower and then put synonyms on the pedals.  This graphic organizer is a quick activity to increase students vocabulary.  If you would like to learn about more activities to increase your students vocabularies visit my vocabulary activities page.
Synonym Flower
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