Little Miss and Z love doing this Sight Word Book from Creative Teaching Press. It’s for grades K-2,  and after Z finished it last year, his confidence in reading sky rocketed.

The puzzles are simple, fun and some are repetitive. I sit next to them to get them going on the page, but then they most often finish it on their own.

There is a page of sight word cards that you can photo copy, but I like to write the words out on these little stars I purchased at an office supply store. I use them like flash cards, review them everyday, and we store them in a mini file thing. Generally by the end of the week they have the words memorized. Some sight words are phonetic, some break all the rules and have to be memorized and some have to memorized now, but the kids will learn the rules for them later.

Learning the sight words has made reading the leveled books possible. I believe in the success of the phonetic process but getting a jump start with sight words while learning phonics, is such a boost for my students.