Heart word practice

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Using what we know about Science of Reading, this post explains how to build sight word mastery by mapping out words.

Learn all about Heart Words: What they are, the most effective ways to teach them, and tons of FREE heart word resources!

Last time we were together we took a moment to truly understand the meaning of heart words. Not sure what a heart word is? Click here to read the previous post in this series High Frequency Words Part 2: Heart Words. Furthermore, if you want to know the difference between sight words and high frequency words, click here. This will take you to the first post in the High Frequency Words series: High Frequency Words What Are They? For now we are going to spend some time on making those tricky…

As an early elementary teacher, you have probably heard about sight words, but have you learned about heart words? Heart words are high frequency words that your K-2 students will learn about phonetic sounds and sounds that aren’t phonetic. My early elementary students love learning heart words with multisensory activities. By teaching your students how to use phonics to decode the heart words, they will understand the irregular parts. Check out how to map words with word mapping mats!

Heart Words are the new "sight words." It is 2022. We are done giving students lists of hundreds of unrelated words to memorize. Instead, we are using

When I was first introduced to the Heart Word Strategy for teaching irregular words, something in my teacher brain just clicked! I implemented it the VERY NEXT DAY (with little to no prep whatsoeve…

FREE sight word activity for kids! Write the words in white crayon and then color the hearts with marker to make them magically appear. So simple and fun! This would be a perfect idea for Valentine's Day.