Cut and Glue Sight Words

Grade level

1st grade

Time

About 20 minutes

Topic

Cut and glue

Answer key

Not needed: answers vary

Kids practice

Sight word recognition, Reading fluency, Spelling high-frequency words, Letter formation

What kids do

“Cut out the letters at the bottom. Glue them in the boxes to build each word.”

Printed on the sheet:

1. Glue the letters in the boxes

Words on this sheet

givethemstopopenwould

Teacher tip

Kids can lay out the tiles before gluing to check their spelling.

How to use it

• Send a copy home so families can play too.
• Read every word on the sheet out loud together before kids start.
• Use it in a literacy center with a partner who checks the reading.

Watch for

Kids who guess from the first letter. Ask them to look at the whole word, all the way to the end.

Talk about it

• Which word was the hardest to read? Why?
• Can you find one of these words in a book from the class library?

Take it further

Hide the week’s words around the room and send kids on a word hunt with a clipboard.

US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.