Digital Apple Sight Word Building Mats That You Can Edit
Looking for a fun way to practice sight words? These digital apple sight word building mats are editable and the perfect interactive addition to your literacy lessons.
Apple Sight Word Building Mats
These digital apple sight word building mats are great for practicing sight words in the classroom or via digital learning platforms. Learning sight words is a key skill in the primary grades, especially kindergarten and first grade.
Students will practice building sight words, reading, and writing the words. On each slide, students will have multiple opportunities to work with each sight word.
This digital version makes the activity accessible to students, even if they don’t have access to magnetic letters and letter manipulatives.
These apple sight word building mats are a great addition to your apple unit of study. In the fall, you can use these mats to review sight words from the prior year and practice new sight words that you are learning.
For this learning activity, all you need to do is enter the words from the word list into the “Read It” section and the students can get started! Type in any words you want!
Setting Up the Apple Sight Word Mats in Google Slides
Students may use Google Slides™ to do this activity.
The download file includes a detailed guide with instructions and pictures on how to use this activity with you students, but it is quite simple to do.
If you are an instructor or teacher, you will want to copy the Google Slides assignment to your Google Drive and save it as a master copy.
Make sure that you click the dropdown next to the attachment. Pick the “Make a copy for each student” option.
Setting Up These Sight Word Building Mats in Seesaw
Students can also use this activity in Seesaw, if you would like.
You will click the Seesaw specific link in the download file. When you arrive at the activity, you will need to click the “Save Activity” button. Then you will assign the activity to your students.
Learning Sight Words
Having a variety of sight word learning activities that you can use with your students is key to keeping the engagement high and the learning fun for kids. These apple sight word building mats can be used in a variety of ways and are very versatile.
To use this activity, students will read the sight word in the “Read It” box. Then they will type it in the “Type It” box. Finally, students will use the digital magnetic letters to build the sight word in the “Build It” box.
The digital magnetic letters are colored blue for consonants and red for vowels, which gives students more practice recognizing and understanding the different types of letters.
To differentiate, you can choose any sight words or high frequency words to include in the “Read It” section of the slides. Therefore, you can differentiate this to meet each individual student’s needs by altering their list.
You could use this activity with:
- sight words
- high frequency words
- color words
- number words
- spelling words
- vocabulary words
This activity can be used in 2nd and 3rd grade with the more challenging words. These sight word building mats would be useful during:
- small group stations
- literacy centers
- reading intervention
- independent practice
- early finisher activities
- technology centers
- virtual learning
I hope your students have fun working on sight words with these apple-themed word building mats. As your students progress, try out different words and more challenging words to keep the learning going!
Click the button below to get the Apple Sight Word Building Mats activity for Google Slides and Seesaw.
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