Heart words activities

Heart words is a science-based way to teach high frequency words, or sight words. Learn all about it and download a free worksheet!

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

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!

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Do You Want to Dramatically Accelerate Your Kindergartners’ Writing Proficiency? Fluency with high-frequency “heart word” sentences is your key to success!

Learning sight words and high frequency words is difficult for new readers. But knowing how to read these words is essential for students to develop reading fluency. Focusing on heart words is a great way to help students learn to read and spell these important words. Head over to this blog post to find out how this veteran kindergarten teacher uses a consistent routine to help her students work on heart words all year long. You too can use these fun, engaging and effective activities.

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!

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