A short, decodable story embedding vowel team — igh words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Pip's Bright Light
Skill: Vowel Team — IGH • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
It was night. Pip the pig sat in a big box. The box was his ship. Pip wanted to read his book, but it was too dim. He could not see. "I might not get to read tonight," he said with a sigh. It was a sad sight to see Pip in the dim. Then, Pip had a thought. He went to the shelf and got a bright light. He took the light back to his ship. "This light is just right!" he said. Pip sat in his box and read his book by the light. He was glad he could read late into the night.
Circle or highlight all the IGH long-I words in the story. How many did you find?
Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Real Words vs Nonsense Words.
Real Words
Nonsense Words
high
sigh
thigh
fight
light
might
night
right
sight
tight
vighz
kighz
righz
gighz
jighz
dighz
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards
Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.
the high on sigh
a sigh in thigh
the thigh and fight
a fight with light
the light on might
a might in night
the night and right
a right with sight
the sight on tight
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)
Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!
Decodable RAN Chart — Vowel Team — IGH
high
sight
high
high
high
blight
fright
sight
light
sight
light
blight
fright
fright
light
blight
Target words: high, light, sight, fright, blight
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the vowel team — igh words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce vowel team — igh word recognition.
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Vowel Team — IGH reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
These free long i (igh) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the IGH trigraph (long I sound). Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.
