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Editable My Home Word Building Activity Mats

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By: danielledb

These home word building mats are perfect for literacy centers during your all about me or family theme. Teach names, sight words, spelling words and more!

These free editable my home word building mats are perfect literacy centers during an all about me theme or my family theme. Use them for names, word work, sight words, spelling words and more!

My Home Word Building Activity

Looking for a fun literacy activity to add to your all about me theme? These my free printable word building mats make learning words or names a hands-on experience.

Kids will be engaged while learning to read words, write words and build words.

Use a wide variety of alphabet manipulatives to change up the activity and keep your students interested.

We enjoy using letter magnets, alphabet beads, letter tiles, alphabet snap cubes, play dough, and more!

Use these word building mats for word work during your all about me theme. Perfect for literacy centers or small group instruction.

Differentiated Word Building

The mats come with editable word cards that you can use for any words you want. The font resizes to fit the card, so any word (or name) length will work.

This means that it is super easy for you to differentiate for the needs of your students and their specific needs.

It doesn’t matter whether they are learning beginning sight words or more challenging spelling words, this word building activity will work for the kids you teach!

Kids will have a blast with word work and learning sight words while using these editable word building mats during your my family theme or all about me theme.

Setting Up the Family Word Building Mats

Supplies Needed:

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Setting Up the Activity:

  1. Type the words onto the cards in the file.
  2. Print out the cards and the word building mat.
  3. Cut out the word cards and laminate for added durability.
  4. Slip the mat into a write and wipe pocket or laminate.
  5. Get the alphabet manipulatives ready.
Kids can practice their spelling words with these fun editable word building mats. Perfect for word work, sight words and spelling words in kindergarten, first grade or second grade.

Learning Sight Words or Spelling Words

Students will place a word card on the read box on the mat. Then they will read the word out loud.

Next, they will write the word in the write it box.

Finally, they will build the word with alphabet manipulatives.

Fun word work activity or sight words activity for your all about me theme in kindergarten, first grade or second grade. Add them to your literacy centers for differentiated word work practice.

This gives them a variety of way to learn words all on one mat. Plus, it makes it so easy for you to differentiate for all of your students at once.

As a result, it is super effective while also being fun and engaging for your students.

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