Let’s talk about sight word stations and let me share some tips & tricks on how to manage Sight Word Stations with ease and how to teach your learners how to take care of some situations themselves.
Sight Word Stations Tips & Tricks
Let me show you the amazing work my little learners have been doing with this set of Sight Word Stations. And keep in mind, the idea of this pack is to give you too many options for stations that you can pick and choose which ones you are going to use.
Time Frame for Sight Word Stations
I give my students 10 minutes a day to work with their sight words. They usually become highly engaged and want more time. Here are my little learners working on their sight words. And remember, they do this completely independently of me! They grab their baskets, get to work, and clean up with little to no direction or instruction from me at all. Here are my busy bees playing MEMORY with their sight words at the yellow table.
Memory
Sentence Scramble
The orange table was dedicated to SENTENCE SCRAMBLES.
I love the sentence scrambles because I made sure to include previously used sight words as well as the current sight words. Since each week comes with 3 sets of sentence scrambles, it is great to put them at an independent table for students to sort. At our red table, I put the sentence scramble WORKSHEET at a separate station.
Sentence Scrambles
The 3 sets of cut-apart sentence scrambles have 3 matching worksheet options that match! Here is one of my little learners working hard to glue, write, then color their sight word sentence. Our purple table is ALWAYS a hit!
Watercolor the Words
We use WATER COLORS to write our sight words.
I put this station on the closest table to my sink so my little learners have easy assess to fill and empty their water cups. I also mark small plastic cups with a Sharpie line to show them how much water they need to use.
These cups can go into their baskets or stay by the sink when they are wet.
They also have to leave their papers hanging up to dry using these magnets on our back door frame.
{These are the button magnets found in the craft section of most stores.}
Secret Code Words
Our blue table was SECRET CODE WORDS. My students broke the secret code to create their sight words.
Then they use the QR code option to check their answers.
Roll and Write
Green table is also a favorite. My kids LOVE to Roll and Write their sight words.
They take this large foam die and roll it. Whatever sight word ends up on TOP is the word they write on their graph. They pass the die and keep playing until one sight word reaches the top and WINS.
I make a few extra copies of activities of some of the Sight Word Stations and keep them on hand.
My students are known for finishing their stations before Friday because they love them so much. I can quickly change out a station with one of these backups or I simply add one of these activities to their Daily 5 rotations.
Read Along Activity
Another station I provide is a READ ALONG activity. Listening and Following Direction, skills are so important at this age and are such a challenge. Each week, I take the audio file I PROVIDE in each pack and make a CD for my listening and following direction activity.
Here is how I do it on a PC. I open up my Windows Media Player {right} and my weekly files from my right Word Stations pack {left}.
I move the audio file from its location to the BURN tab on Windows Media Player. {See it as the music/wav file moving over?}
I put it under the ‘Burn List.”
Then, I insert a black CD and select “Start burn.”
These steps take less than a minute to do. The computer burns my audio file to a CD. I label it with a sharpie and place it in my listening station. You can get all my Sight Word Stations {PrePrimer, Primer, and 1st Grade} in bundled packs to save you time and money or get them week by week.
I have bundles and weekly stations: If you click on the bundles, you will see the weekly breakdown listed in the product description.
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {The Complete Dolch Bundle}$135.20
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {3rd Grade~Bundled}$28.00
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {2nd Grade~Bundled}$32.00
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {First Grade~Bundled}$25.00
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {Primer~Bundled}$36.00
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Product on saleSight Word Games & Stations {PrePrimer~Bundled}$25.00
Breanne Simons says
I love how many different choices there are! My kids would be engaged all year long!
Breanne
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Raevers says
I LOVE that they're completely independent. Such great, engaging ideas! Thanks for sharing your ideas!
loularkin says
I love it all! I think my favorite is that they can be independent and they will be so engaged!
Mary McGough says
Wow Love these bundles.. They would be so easy peasy to set up. I love the way you have your stations in baskets.
Lupe Newton says
I love this! So many choices and so easy to set up!!
Lisa says
AMAZING! I teach grade one but I can see these stations working well in my class too. I totally want to revamp my literacy centers now!!! Thanks for sharing.
Terri says
I love the ease of set-up and the student interest.
Laura S says
I love everything! I love all of the different activities you have thought of for the kids to practice! Great ideas!!!
Debora Weaver says
I love the variety and really like the baskets you had and the ease to which they could be set up. These would really be an asset to my classroom and be beneficial for my kiddos as well as myself.
Olive Oyl says
I would love to be the recipient of your bundle! I have one packet but would LOVE to complete my set! They are AWESOME!!!! Thank you~
Dr. Maty says
These deas are sooooo awesome, thanks for sharing!
Amanda Hotchkiss says
WOW!!!! They are awesome!
Mrs. Brown says
Gee, this is all great! Love how you have it on cd with the directions!
mcoop1125 says
Thanks for the quick instructions on burning a CD with my verbal directions for a center. LOVE these quick, easy prep centers for sight words! Hope I win! Thanks!
Schererlove20 says
I hope these awesome activities help my students retain their words!! Great product!
Susan says
Wow! So many choices – something for every learning style
Nicole says
Wow, these activities are great! I'm always looking for fun and different ways to practice sight words 🙂
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Unknown says
I love the sight word practice!
Kim Chaiken says
Love how it's all so easy to implement and use. If kids get a solid foundation of sight words, reading is so much easier for kids. Would love to have this to use in my classroom !!!
lifelearn37 says
Wonderful! My kiddos always love working with sight words in different ways! I like being able to provide a solid foundation is a fun way.
Amy Rose says
Awesome ideas!!
MrsS says
I love the different ways the students are able to interact with the sight words. Repetition is the key and in such fun ways!
-Andrea
alwayskindergarten@gmail.com
melissalynn217 says
I love the differentiation incorporated into your bundles.
suzannedenecke says
I wish I had more time this year to use these! I am soooo looking forward to using them ALL year next year. Thanks for the great bundles!
suzannedenecke says
I wish I had more time this year to use these! I am soooo looking forward to using them ALL year next year. Thanks for the great bundles!
Amy Mc says
I love the multitude of choices and the color coding (I color code everything)
Eileen Boyle says
I love all the choices and easy to set up. Where did you get the cube?
Eileen Boyle
eileenb3434@gmail.com
keri says
Love your ideas! Beautiful work! ketowne@lakeland.k12.mo.us
Kinderkids says
I love the huge variety! clairhr@comcast.net
Ellen says
Awesome, luv, luv the easy prep!
Rachel says
These are wonderful! Engaging for the kids and easy for the teacher 😉
Lillia Bates says
It looks fun and engaging. I would love to have this!
Jan says
My littles would love every one of these stations! Low prep, fantastic!
Erica Croft says
My kinderkids would love these!
Rebekah Mogee says
My little munchkins would love these. We already love using our sight words. This would be awesome to add to my centers.
April Griffin says
Awesome ideas!
naf1 says
I love these centers! Thanks for sharing your creative ideas and activities!
Craziest Cottrell says
Wow! This is a ton of great ideas! Can you please post a list of the words that you included in your first grade pack?
weety says
These are amazing! I'm wondering if you have any plans for making some simper sets? I teach TK and would love to see sets with easier words and simpler sentences.
Michele Rodriguez says
Love the ideas. Always looking for activities for my students to work on learning their sight words.
newlymarried says
So many options! I had never thought to use watercolors for tracing sight words! I just bought a bunch of watercolors from IKEA, so sounds like I will need to put them to use!
luxjennifera says
I love the watercolor idea! I would love to add more independent stations, thanks for all the inspiration!
jeanieb says
Wow! I love the independence that your students have and all the different ways to keep them engaged!!
Lori Alford says
I love that there are many ways to practice the words. Great pack! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Adam Smallwood says
Love this pack! What a great way to practice sight words daily. I would love to win a copy!
Alice S says
Super cute idea to work with each week.
Ana Varela says
What an amazing pack!! I can only imagine the work you put into this. Thank you for all of your hard work.
angel chism says
I love sight words and finding fun ways to help the little ones learn them.
Gwen says
Great ideas! Especially for end of the year review
Mrs. Yazzie's Classroom News says
Love all your pictures! Thanks for sharing great ideas.
Lori says
I am a current 5th grade math teacher (only position available 2 years ago) very excited to be going to kindergarten in the fall! I love my 5th graders, but my heart has always been with teaching the younger students and I'm so thankful there's an opening at my school. Needless to say, I'm looking for great kindergarten things and I feel blessed to have found your blog! Thank you for sharing all your great ccenter ideas! I look forward to learning lots more as I read through the rest of your blog!
Lori
Mrs. Daniels Kindergarten says
I love this! I hope I get to win these.
Emmanuel says
Thank you for sharing! These are such fun ideas . who would not want to win!
TeacherSherpa has some cool Sight Word activities.
https://teachersherpa.com/template/Color-by-Sight-Word-Activity-Set-3/89bd195d-9281-4a69-84d1-fd0a744b6446/details?authorName=Danielle%20Rivera&afmc=5031b790-f7a2-4d8a-a979-a81d4d662fc1