40 Sight Word Poems for Shared Reading - Kindergarten Poetry Sight Word Activity

Looking for a fun, engaging, and effective way to build sight word fluency in your Kindergarten classroom? This set of 40 Sight Word Poems is perfect for introducing, practicing, and reinforcing high-frequency words—one poem for each week of the school year!

These predictable, rhyming poems are designed to help your young readers recognize sight words in context, build reading fluency, and develop important early literacy skills—all while having fun!

✨ What’s Included:

• ✅ 40 Black & White Sight Word Poems
• ✅ Poetry Notebook Cover
• ✅ High-frequency sight word focus in each poem
• ✅ Student-friendly illustrations to color
• ✅ Built-in opportunities for:
• Highlighting sight words
• Identifying rhyming pairs
• Noticing punctuation and patterns
• Using context clues

🧠 Skills Targeted:

• Sight Word Recognition
• Reading Fluency
• Phonemic Awareness (Rhyming)
• Vocabulary Development
• Print Concepts
• Fine Motor Practice (coloring, highlighting)

📚 Perfect For:

• ✅ Whole Group Shared Reading
• ✅ Small Group Literacy Instruction
• ✅ Morning Work or Bell Ringers
• ✅ Literacy Centers
• ✅ Homework or Poetry Notebooks
• ✅ Science of Reading-aligned instruction

🔠 Sight Words Featured Include:

I, like, the, see, to, are, we, on, is, my, can, you, do, he, go, up, down, will, have, this, not, look, yellow, friend, love, and many more!

🎉 Teacher Tip:

Have your students highlight sight words in the poem, find rhyming words, discuss punctuation, and illustrate meaning—then keep the poems in a poetry notebook to revisit all year long!