Free Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles with Match & Tracing
Puzzles are a great learning tool and these preprimer sight word gumball matching puzzles are great for learning and reviewing preprimer sight words.
The preprimer sight word gumball puzzles are a great hands-on activity to help learn sight words.
Kids will have fun matching the top and bottom of the gumball and then matching the puzzles to the candy jars.
The Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles is a part of the 5 Days of Free Reading Printables.
The Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzle Printables are a great addition to the sight word printables on the site.
The Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles are part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the sight word section on the subscriber freebie page.
What is a Sight Word?
Sight words are words that we teach beginner readers to know by heart. This is so that when they see it they know it. It can help speed reading along.
Simply put these are words that are found common in reading. Some examples of sight words are: you, and, can, go, here, and come. They might not be easy to decode or don’t follow pattern simple sounding out patterns.
There are many different lists that you can get for sight words. Some of these sight word lists are Dolch Sight Word lists and Fry Sight Word Lists.
Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles
The preprimer sight word matching gumball puzzles are going to have kids match the same word. It is a fun way to work on sight words. There are twelve puzzles on one page. Plus a matching candy jar matching mat for each sight word.
Gumball Sight Word Puzzles
You can see an example of two of the gumball puzzles below. I recommend printing these on cardstock and laminating them.
Candy Jar matching & Tracing Mats
Each preprimer sight word has a matching candy jar to match the puzzle to and then trace the puzzle on the candy jar.
Preprimer Sight Word List
Preprimer Sight Words has the following words a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you.
Things to use with the Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles Printable
Ways to Use the Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles Printable
You will see suggestion on how to use the sight word puzzles in learning centers and prepare them as well.
Preparing the Gumball Sight Word Puzzles
You want to make sure you print the gumball puzzles and the candy jar mats on cardstock. And then you can laminate them. This helps the puzzles and mats last longer.
We printed our gumballs and candy jars on stardust cardstock. It has small specks of color on the cardstock and makes it not be complete white.
If you plan on one time use you can use copy paper and skip the laminating.
Matching the Preprimer Sight Word Puzzles
You can use the gumball sight word puzzles for a matching center. You have the gumballs sorted by top and bottom.
You can see a simple set up below.
You can see how fun the matching is. They colors of the gumballs can help but it is a great way to work on sight words with kids.
Matching the Sight Word Puzzles on Candy Jars
This set is different from some of the other sight words puzzles. It has a matching candy jar to match the puzzles pieces.
You can see how simple it is to match the puzzles on the candy jars. You can skip the tracing if you want.
Matching the Sight Word Puzzles on Candy Jars With Tracing
By adding the candy jar to the gumball sight word puzzles it lets you match the sight word a second time, plus you can then trace the sight word on the jar.
You will want to have the candy jars laminated and have a dry erase marker for the tracing of the sight word.
Sight Word Puzzles Sensory Bin
The gumball sigh word puzzles also work great in sensory bins. You can see below fun the puzzles look in a simple rice sensory bin.
You can put the puzzles in random order all around the bin.
They can then pull the puzzles and see if they find matches of the sight words.
You can also make this a learning center to adding the candy jar with the tracing of the sight words.
You put only the puzzles that you have the matching sight word candy jars. Then you add a dry erase marker for tracing the sight word.
You can see how fun it is to pull out the sight word and match on the candy jar with kids.
This lets them do hands-on sight word matching and sight word handwriting.
More Preprimer Sight Word Printables
If you are looking for more sight word prinables to use with this set. Check out the Preprimer Sight Word Find & Trace Simple. A great way to add more sight word handwriting and then finding the sight words.
Sight Word Find & Trace Simple – Preprimer Sight Words
The Sight Word Trace & Find Simple – Preprimer set has 40 pages with words for beginning sight word learners. These work great for late Prek and early Kindergarten.
What you will find in the Sight Word Find & Trace Simple – Preprimer Sight Words
- Simple sight word find for kids
- Two lines of tracing each sight word
- Find four sight words on each page
- Pictures to show what they are doing on each activity
- Dolch Preprimer Sight Words: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
- 40 pages of printables
- Price: $4
What you will find in the Free Preprimer Sight Word Gumball Puzzles Printables:
- All 40 words from the Dolch Preprimer Sight Words: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
- 2 piece matching puzzles with a gumball theme
- Candy jar tracing and matching cards for each gumball
- 14 pages
More Preprimer Sight word Printables for Kids
Romping & Roaring Preprimer Sight Word Packs: has all 40 Dolch Preprimer Sight Words in a mix of free and selling sets that you can get. Each sight word has its own pack with 10 pages of activities in the full set. These are great sight words for kindergarten.
Sight Word Color by Letter with Dolch Preprimer, Primer and First Grade. It has a single page sight word worksheet or sight word cards that can be cut out. It has four sight words on each page.
Preprimer Sight Word Trace & Find the Word has all 40 Dolch Preprimer sight words. You have a tracing two lines of the sight word and then finding the sight word below. This is a great kindergarten and first grade sight word printable.
Sight Word Easy Reader Books & Worksheets: Preprimer – 40 different sight words books for all 40 Dolch Preprimer words. You have an easy reader book, reading strips, matching worksheets and more in the set. Eash book has one sight word they work on and each book has a different theme you can use all year.
Color By Letter Sight Words for Dolch Preprimer – easy no-prep printable for working on learning letters in the words. Each letter has a color and you color all that letter in the word that color.
Check out all the fun Sight Word Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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