Description
Tired of watching students struggle with high-frequency words? Fortunately, you can turn this challenge into a fun, hands-on experience with the Heart Word Mapping Mats and Cards. With these tools, students actively break down tricky words, making it easier to remember the parts they need to “know by heart.” As a result, learning high-frequency words becomes engaging and effective.
Why Use the Heart Word Method?
The heart word method not only helps students decode high-frequency words but also ensures they understand them, instead of relying on memorization. By focusing on regular sounds, this method draws attention to the tricky parts they need to “know by heart.” For instance, hearts highlight irregular sounds, and a finger-on-the-mouth symbol indicates silent letters. In this way, students gain lasting skills that make reading easier and more enjoyable.
How to Use Heart Word Mapping Mats and Cards:
- First, place the word card in the provided spot to keep students focused.
- Next, students tap out each sound and use hearts to mark tricky parts, with the finger-on-the-mouth symbol showing silent letters.
- Finally, students build the word with magnetic letters and write it out for additional practice.
What’s Included?
- In total, 284 high-frequency word cards provide a wide variety of words for reinforcing reading skills.
- Additionally, word mapping mats come in color and black-and-white, making them easy to print and laminate for repeated use.
3 Levels of Difficulty:
- Level 1: Hearts highlight irregular sounds, vowel teams, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels, while silent letters get a finger-on-the-mouth symbol.
- Level 2: Hearts focus only on the trickiest sounds.
- Level 3: Plain cards are ideal for students ready to identify tricky parts on their own.
Perfect for:
- Intervention: Provide targeted support to students who struggle with high-frequency words.
- Small Reading Groups: Use them to reinforce decoding skills during guided reading sessions.
- Literacy Centers: Set up a self-guided station where students can practice decoding independently.
- Morning Work: Start the day with focused practice on high-frequency words.
Why You’ll Love These Mats:
These mats are both visual and hands-on, making them perfect for young learners who need extra support. Furthermore, they’re easy to integrate into existing lesson plans and reading groups. Ultimately, they help students build confidence by giving them the tools to decode words on their own, making reading more enjoyable and effective.
In conclusion, Heart Word Mapping Mats and Cards provide a powerful tool for mastering tricky high-frequency words.
Words Included:
a, about, after, again, air, all, also, always, am, an, and, animal, another, answer, any, are, around, as, ask, at, ate, away, back, be, because, been, before, best, better, big, black, blue, both, boy, bring, brown, but, buy, by, call, called, came, can, carry, change, clean, cold, come, could, cut, day, did, do, does, done, down, draw, drink, each, eat, eight, end, even, every, fall, far, fast, find, first, five, fly, follow, for, form, found, four, from, full, funny, gave, get, give, go, goes, going, good, got, great, green, grow, hand, had, has, have, he, help, her, here, him, his, hold, home, hot, house, how, hurt, i, if, in, into, is, it, its, jump, just, keep, kind, knew, know, land, large, laugh, learn, let, letter, light, line, let, like, little, live, long, look, made, make, man, many, may, me, means, men, more, most, mother, move, much, must, my, myself, name, need, never, new, nine, no, not, now, number, of, off, oil, old, on, once, one, only, open, or, other, our, out, over, own, page, part, people, pick, picture, place, play, please, point, pretty, pull, put, ran, read, red, ride, right, round, run, said, same, saw, say, see, set, seven, shall, she, should, show, sing, sit, six, sleep, small, so, some, soon, sound, spell, start, still, stop, study, such, take, tell, ten, than, thank, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, things, think, this, those, three, through, time, to, today, together, too, try, turn, two, under, up, upon, us, use, very, walk, want, warm, was, wash, water, way, we, well, went, were, what, when, where, which, white, with, who, why, will, wish, with, words, work, world, would, write, wrote, years, yellow, yes, you, your
