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Scan & Learn Sight Words with Independence

March 24, 2018 by Mary Amoson 6 Comments

Scan & Learn Sight Words with Independence

This past week in school I had a LIGHT BULB moment. Truly one of those moments when I stop dead in my track. I pieced together two things that I love to create a solution to a problem I have in my classroom. I know that if I have this problem in my classroom, then you most likely have this problem in your classroom.

My Problem with Sight Words:

I need some quick and easy, INDEPENDENT sight word practice for my little learners. They not only need repetitious, but they also need something quick and hands on.

First Thing First

I assessed my students on their sight words. Then, I pulled my data (using ESGI) to see the exact words my students are lacking the most. This table easily shows me that we need to work on the sight words. We need: WHERE, HOW, WANT, SAW, WENT, SAY, OUR, HELP, and WHY the most.

What words do we need to focus on learning?

Ironically, I know exactly why this happened. Most of these “missing” words were taught when we had snow days and during the week the flu hit us hard.

Now we need to play catch up to get everyone on the same page with some of these TOUGH sight words. I put these exact words onto post it notes. The notes went into this Carson Dellosa Double Smart Pocket Chart.     (I have owned this pocket char for years and year.)

Prepping a center for sight words with post its. Wait to you see the NEXT step.

Then, I pull out my lowercase letter beads. I go through the bead bin to pull the beads to spell out each word, placing those beads in the back pocket chart along with a pipe cleaner. Students create the sight word on their pipe cleaner to make the word. Simple, developmentally appropriate, and FUN. Letter beads to make sight words

The truth is, I have use this exact set up for many years and I have seen great success with this hands on activity. See the word and make the word. Practice the word. The added OT help is amazing.

Scan & Learn for Sight Word Independence

But the true struggle is how to make this station, center, or whatever you want to use it for, into something INDEPENDENT? I want my students to be able to come to this station and use it on their own for sight word success.

Scan the code, hear the word, build the word!

Next, enter my idea! Why not add my QR Scan & Learn Sight Word Book cards to these pockets?!  I grabbed my notebook full of trading card sized sight words. I added these interactive sight word cards to the pocket chart and took down the note cards. Why? What happens when a student scan a code?

Let me SHOW YOU how this words.

Lastly, I did print out a list of the sight words individual students need to know. I added those to index cards so my students can grab there card. Then they know which words they need to look for on the chart.
I hope this helps solve an independence of sight words. I also hope it helps with hands on activity issue for you, like is has for me!
If you are looking for more sight word activities, check out this information below.
Just click on the picture to go to that article.
Sight Word RTI
Making Sight Words Hands On! Making Sight Words Seriously Fun How to Start Sight Word Stations

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Filed Under: QR Scan & Learn, Sight Words, Technology

Comments

  1. mary says

    June 23, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    Can I find out the sight words that are in your preprimer and primer packs please?

    Mary

    Reply
    • Mary Amoson says

      June 25, 2018 at 4:20 pm

      Here is the link:
      https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sharing-Kindergarten/Category/QR-Sight-Word-Book-322430

      Reply
      • mary says

        June 26, 2018 at 11:46 am

        Hi. Thanks for the reply. I know where the link is. I was just trying to find out the words covered in the preprimer and primer sets. I wanted to see if the words aligned to our district’s words.

        Mary

        Reply
  2. Janet says

    April 16, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    Does this come in an Editable sight words
    because it would be easier to do the list of sight words my school district uses instead of hunt and pick.

    Reply
    • Mary Amoson says

      April 24, 2019 at 7:12 pm

      You can not have editable QR codes in this case. It is not possible. So sorry.

      Reply
  3. Tami says

    April 17, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    Where did you get the pocket chart? This is perfect, the will be a purchase I will be making soon. This is also a great home activity for the kids to use at home.

    Reply

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