1st grade
Spin and Write Sight Words
A paperclip spinner with six 1st grade words. Spin, read and write until one column is full.
Sight word worksheet · Spin and write
Spin and Write Sight Words
Put a paperclip on the wheel, flick it with a pencil, read the word it lands on and write it in that column.
- Grade level
- Kindergarten
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Spin and write
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Sight word recognition, Reading fluency, Spelling high-frequency words, Letter formation
What kids do
“Hold a paperclip in the middle with a pencil. Flick it! Read the word. Write it in its column.”
Printed on the sheet:
- Write the word you spun
- Put a paperclip in the middle. Hold it with a pencil tip. Flick!
- The word I spun the most was
Words on this sheet
Spin hereupblueredlittledownbig
Teacher tip
Model the paperclip spinner once. Kids pick it up quickly.
How to use it
- 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.
- Play it again later in the week with a different partner. Repeat play builds speed.
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.
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