21 Word Work Activities to Engage Young Learners

Editable word work activities are a huge time saver.

It's so easy to create a range of literacy centers, sight word practice activities, even homework sheets – all with the words you need for your kids. Type in the words you want once to generate them on each activity sheet or game.

You don't need to only use them for sight words. They're also great for word families, thematic words, spelling words, vowel teams – whatever your word list.

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Reduce your prep time

We all want to be able to easily prepare our word work activities. I know I've wasted so much time trying to make six different activities for my sight word rotations. Time that could have definitely been put to better use!

Type your words into one editable field and all your words are generated on each of the sixteen activity sheets, two board games, the I Have, Who Has game, the play dough mat cards or the bingo cards.

 Word work activities to help you differentiate your lists

It's so easy to differentiate your list. All you need to do is type in group one's words, choose your activity, print and save the file.

Open the file again to get a clear editable field, type in group two's list, pick your activity, print and save.

Press TAB on your keyboard to take you to the next editable field and type away. You wouldn't believe how quick it is.

 Focus on one word at a time

Sometimes we need our kids to focus on just one word at a time, particularly when we have those tricky irregular words.

Playdough mats are also great for this.

Use the pack for all your word work activities

Don't forget it doesn't just need to be sight words. Type any words you are working on into the editable fields.

Grab a Pack for your Classroom

Grab a pack of themed editable sight word/word work packs from my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Or save big with this bundle of 16 themed sight word packs.