Description

Create a fun, growing sight word classroom display while giving students meaningful ways to practice the exact sight words you are teaching!

This Editable Sight Word Caterpillar lets you build your sight word wall throughout the year. Simply teach a sight word, add it to your caterpillar, and watch your classroom display grow! The editable PDF allows you to program up to 100 sight words at a time, making it easy to use with your own sight word list, high-frequency words, heart words, or word study sequence.

But this resource goes beyond classroom decor! It also includes coordinating sight word practice printables so students can read, write, find, graph, color, and use the words displayed on your caterpillar.

What’s Included

1.  Editalbe Sight Word Catperillar Display

✔ Program up to 100 sight words at a time
✔ Use your own sight word list or high-frequency words
✔ Add new words to your classroom caterpillar as they are taught
✔ Editable PDF designed to be used in Adobe Reader
✔ Multiple caterpillar color options
✔ Two different sizes

The caterpillar pieces are included in:

• 4½-inch size that prints two per page
• 7-inch size that prints one per page
• Green caterpillar with a green or red head
• Rainbow color order
• Mixed rainbow color order

The file includes both sizes and the different color options so you can choose the look that works best for your classroom.

2.  Sight Word Practice Printables

Students can use the classroom Sight Word Caterpillar as a reference while completing the included blank sight word worksheets and activities. These are perfect for independent practice, literacy centers, morning work, or word work.

Blank printable options include opportunities for students to:

✔ Record sight words from the classroom display
✔ Write sight words
✔ Practice sight word sentences
✔ Complete caterpillar-themed sight word activities

3.   Editable Sight Word Activities

You can also type five sight words into the editable boxes and those words will automatically populate throughout the coordinating practice pages.

Editable activities include:

✔ Sight Word Graph: Students count each sight word and record the results on a graph.
✔ Sight Word Color by Code
✔ Read, Rainbow Write, Trace, Write & Circle the Word Practice
✔ Sight Word Writing Practice
✔ Sight Word Sentences
✔ Sight Word Caterpillar Craft

This makes it easy to choose the five sight words your students are currently practicing and instantly create coordinating sight word activities.

Perfect For

✔ Kindergarten sight words
✔ First grade sight words
✔ High-frequency words
✔ Heart words
✔ Sight word practice
✔ Sight word centers
✔ Word work
✔ Literacy centers
✔ Morning work
✔ Independent practice
✔ Intervention and small groups
✔ Classroom word walls
✔ Sight word classroom displays

Use the caterpillar all year long: teach a word, add the word, practice the word!

Instead of being tied to one predetermined sight word list, you can customize this resource to match the words you actually teach.

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