Back to School Editable Sight Word Game
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It’s time to prep your literacy centers for Back to School season! We are excited to share with you another sight word game in our “Seek a Sight Word” series. This free Back to School Editable Sight Word Game is the perfect way for children to practice spelling words, high-frequency words, or fun Back to School words! The possibilities are endless because this printable is EDITABLE!
*Pair with our Simply Sight Words Bundle for the school year!
Back to School Editable Sight Word Game
This activity is suitable for Pre-K to first grade students. You can use this in your homeschool or traditional classroom setting.
Differentiate learning with this editable printable – you can choose any 15 words that you’d like your students to focus on.
You simply type them on the custom word generator page – and it will auto-populate the sight words on the crayon cards and recording sheet for you!
Print different word lists for small groups. You can focus on sets of words for each group of kiddos!
Let’s get started!
Supplies
- Crayons
- Seek a Sight Word Coloring Page (at the end of the post)
- 15 Sight Word Crayon Cards (at the end of the post)
- Back to School themed manipulatives (optional in place of coloring with crayons or markers)
- dry erase pockets if you are making the pages reusable
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How to Use this Activity
The best thing about this FREE printable is… it’s EDITABLE!
The possibilities are endless with an editable activity. You can choose to use back to school words, spelling words, High-Frequency Words, Dolch Words, Sight Words and the list goes on!
I am so excited for you to use this with your students and I have a few variations to share with you.
Tip: Use colorful candies or back to school themed manipulatives to “cover-up” the sight word crayons on the recording sheet instead of coloring with crayons or markers, to make it reusable! Just slide the pages into a dry erase pocket or sheet protector!
Seek a Sight Word and Color
This would make for an easy-prep center activity. Just download the editable file and type in your word list.
Print, laminate, and cut apart the sight word crayon cards. Place the Seek a Sight Word Coloring page in your literacy center with crayons, markers, or colored pencils and Sight Word Crayon Cards.
Students will take a sight word card from the pile, read it, and find it on the recording sheet by coloring it in.
The activity continues until all of the sight word crayon cards have been read and colored in on the recording sheet.
Seek a Sight Word and Color Partner Race
This variation is played similarly but in pairs.
Two players share a recording sheet and each pick one color crayon or marker that is their designated color.
Player #1 draws a card, reads the sight word and finds it on the recording sheet and colors in the correct sight word crayon. Player #2 then proceeds as player #1 did.
If a player doesn’t know the sight word, they must put the card at the bottom of the pile and they miss their turn. The player with the most sight word crayons colored at the end of the game is the winner.
Read the Room Seek a Sight Word
Children scatter the sight words around the classroom either alone or with a partner. Students will use the recording sheet to color in the words as they find them around the classroom.
If this activity is used in pairs, then one child can hide the words around the classroom while his/her partner then finds them.
Students then take turns and switch so each child has a turn to “hide and seek.”
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Thank you so much for all of the free printables.. my children loves it all.. they are always been excited to do all this activities. They are learning a lot while at home. God bless you always 🙏
Hi there! Thank you so much for you kind words. We are so happy to hear that your children are enjoying our resources. Have fun!
Thank you for the fun activity!
Thank you for the wonderful free printable. Love using them with kindergarten children.
I am so glad you are able to use it! : )