Teaching With Terhune: DIGITAL SIGHT WORD ACTIVITIES

It seems as if a lot more schools are going digital lately. Whether that means they are doing virtual learning or classrooms are getting equipped with learning devices. It's always great to add a digital spin to an ordinary learning activity.

I created these digital sight word flash cards to use in my classroom.

(Push play to see how a set of my digital sight word flash cards work.)

Each digital flash card set is color coded based on the DOLCH word list used.

For example:

Blue Set: Pre-Primer Words

Orange Set: Primer Words

Yellow Set: 1st Grade Words

Purple Set: 2nd Grade Words

Green Set: 3rd Grade Words

These digital flash cards open in PowerPoint (or Google Slides) and can be used multiple ways in the classroom. I like to display them on my Smartboard as we read through them together as a class.

Not only can these digital flash cards be used whole group, but you can also use them at small group, at literacy centers, during computer lab time, or even with students that need one-on-one help and/or RTI interventions.

These digital flash cards also come in handy when you have a little extra time left in class or if you need to step aside and talk to another teacher/adult. Simply put this presentation in slide show mode and have one of your student volunteers click the mouse to flip through the flash cards as the class reads each word aloud!

You can also organize your deck of flash cards with these helpful divider slides. Divide your deck into words your students know well and words they still need more practice with.

These digital flash cards are a wonderful tool for students to practice building and improving their reading fluency. When the students are ready for more of a challenge then I move on to these sight word fluency phrases!

(Push play to see how a set of my digital sight word fluency phrases work.)

Each digital flash card set is also color coded based on the DOLCH word list used.

Each card includes either a phrase or a short sentence. Many of the high-frequency words are used multiple times and each set of phrases builds on one another. For example, the orange set has words from the pre-primer and primer list of sight words. The yellow set has words from the pre-primer, primer, and 1st grade list of sight words, etc. Each set of cards includes 75 phrases/short sentences that are aligned to each word list, totaling over 375 cards in all!