Looking for a super fun way to master Dolch sight words? Try ABCya’s Dolch Sight Word Bingo! Select a word group, and try getting BINGO by recognizing the correct sight word. Can you collect all 20 Bingo Bugs?

This lesson is for Grades PreK - K on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Students will work in small groups to actively engage in practicing high frequency words.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten English Language Arts content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

This document provides ideas to increase fluency and confidence for emerging readers.  These ideas can be used during whole-group or small-group reading sessions, guided reading groups, or independent practice.

Students will use the eraser to 'scratch' (erase) the hexagons to reveal the sight word. Then use the microphone to record his/her self saying the word.

In this lesson, students engage in independent literacy centers to become proficient in completing activities about the stories they read. Although this lesson uses Seven Blind Mice as an example, the framework is adaptable to almost any text.

In this lesson, students will use a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts. Students sing the song repeatedly, while following along with a picture book that contains the lyrics and illustrations. They are then encouraged to participate in several hands-on activities to reinforce learning of the vocabulary words.

For this online interactive, students recognize and recall dolch sight words by flipping the cards and making a pair of the matching words. This activity is desgined to sharpen students' memory skills and build their vocabulary which aids in improving their reading skills.

ABCya! presents its fifth children's storybook for the classroom. It's called Marvin Makes Music, an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a frog that is sad because he cannot sing like his friends, until one day when he gets a new musical instrument. This is a great storybook to share with kids using an interactive whiteboard.

*This storybook has narration! Students can click the speaker button to have the story read to them.

This document provides a description of what each standard means a student will know, understand and be able to do. The "unpacking" of the standards done in this document is an effort to answer a simple question, "What does this standard mean that a student must know and be able to do?" and to ensure the description is helpful, specific and comprehensive for educators.

Use this progress monitoring tool to help students build and track their sight word knowledge.  Seven different lists of words are provided for the students to master.  You can color code your list if you choose.  Students will be preassessed on the knowledge of 10 sight sords. You will record answers on the Sight Word Checklist and then hole punch the students sight word ring for the words they know.  Students will then work on the words they still need to master for the week.  Students will be checked at the end of the week for growth.  As the list of words are mastered, a new list of words can be added to the each studnet's sIght word ring.  

There will be 7 different lists of words for the students to master.  Lists are color coded.  Students will be preassessed on the knowledge of 10 Sight Words. The teacher will record answers on the Sight Word Checklist and then hole punch the students Sight Word Ring for the words they know.  Student will then work on the words they still need to master for the week.  Students will be checked at the end of the week for growth.  As the list of word id mastered, a new list of words is added to the SIght Word Ting.  

In this lesson, students will use a weekly poem to explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts. After studying the poem, students are given a copy of the poem to illustrate and share their understanding. All of the poems explored are then compiled into a poetry portfolio for students to take home and share with their families. To further connect home to school, a family poetry project is suggested.

Through this lesson, students will be exposed to a variety of basic sight words or "popcorn" words. First they will watch a variety of videos to be introduced to the words. Then they will play a fun game on popcorn words. To end the lessons, students will identify their popcorn words.

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for Kindergarten ELA.

Kindergarten Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy, RF.K.3.C   Read common high-frequency words by sightLearning Objective for student: I can read my sight words!This tool provides 7 lists of kindergarten sight words that can be color-coded to keep track of student growth. Checklists for assessment and progress monitoring are provided as well as cards to be hole punched for each individual child. The teacher can use the activities within this resource for small groups that are working on learning sight words. The intervention strategy, Simultaneous Oral Spelling, is also provided with step-by-step directions and should be used with any student who struggles to learn sight words through the typical reading and building activities.