More About This Resource
Looking for a science of reading based literacy center that exposes students to high frequency words and utilizes the heart word method? With this independent student activity, students will use their knowledge of heart words to create phoneme-grapheme word associations. This process utilizes the oral language processing part of a student’s brain to help them permanently store high frequency words into their sight word memory. Use this activity as a review after you have explicitly and systematically introduced heart words to your students. This resource also includes editable templates. Check out my Heart Words Teaching Slides for more!
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Using these heart word mapping digital slides, students will practice their high frequency words through phoneme grapheme mapping. Students will hear an audio clip of the word, read a sentence to hear the high frequency word used in context, map the word by moving a chip for each sound they hear, graph the word by spelling the word with graphemes and identifying the “tricky” part of the word that must be learned by heart. Tutorial included for how to edit the hearts for each word.
Resource includes:
- Heart word information for the teacher
- Heart word mapping digital slides for 220 words
- Self-check box included for each slide
- Editable templates included to use with any word
- Seesaw compatible PNGs for 220 words (NOT a premade seesaw activity)
220 high frequency words included:
the to and he a I you it of in was said his that she for on they but had at him with up all look is her there some out as be have go we am then little down do can could when did what so see not were get them like one this my would me will yes big went are come if now long no came ask very an over your its how know right put too got take where every pretty jump green four ride into just blue red from good any about around want don’t away old by their here saw call after well think ran let help make going sleep brown yellow five six walk two or before eat again play who been may stop off never seven eight cold today fly myself round tell much keep give work first try new must start black white ten does bring goes write always drink once soon made run gave open has find only us three our better hold buy funny warm ate full those done use fast say light pick hurt pull cut kind both sit which fall carry small under read why own found those which their always were could where about again wash show hot because far live draw clean grow best upon these sing together please thank wish many shall laugh










Tina W. –
Thank you so much for the heart word mapping slides.
Karlye S. –
This is a great resource to use with students. Thank you.
Bertha M. –
Great resource. Thank you for creating kinder friendly work.
Deanna L. –
Thank you so much for creating such a useful resource.
Fun 2B in 1st –
This is a great resource-I wanted to use it more than I did.
Amy O. –
I’ve enjoyed using this resource to learn heart words using word mapping.
Kirstin M. –
Thank you.
KinderLand by Carole Kelly –
Great resource! Used this for my daughter when she was learning the skill in school. We used it as a review before her assessment.
Mrs. Pereira in Kindergarten –
I love that I can edit these to fit my students needs! I use them in the classroom to reinforce the red words we’re learning with orton gillingham!
Teach Fun in First –
Thank you for this resource. It helped my students understand mapping sight words.
Kelly S. –
This has been a great resource for my first grade class! Thanks so much 🙂
Kelin M. –
Very easy to use for literacy centers. My only wish is there was a page which listed the page numbers for each heart word.
Christina –
Hi Kelin,
Thank you for the feedback! I just updated the clickable links page inside the Digital Heart Word Mapping slides to include the words found in each category & broke the categories down a bit so you can more easily find the words you need. Be sure to make a new copy of the google slides to access this update. I hope that helps!
Amie M. –
This helped my students that were struggling to decode. Once they got the hang of the activity, they were able to practice on their own.
Lisa B. –
My students love using this resource!! Very well developed.
TeacherPeach – Learning on My Mind –
This is a great resource for independent review during small group instruction. It is easily differentiated and user friendly.
Lexie S. –
I use this with a student of mine in special education!
Angela H. –
Oh my gosh! This is the best resource for my kids to independently practice their heart words!
Hilary Singrey –
I loved this resource for my kids who needed some more work with their words.
Melissa T. –
My students loved this activity, but I hate it can’t be loaded into SeeSaw. I bought it to use it there. It will only work in Google classroom and that is too hard for my firsties to do! It is a great resource.
Laura H. –
This was an Excellent Resource. Students enjoyed it