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
Pip felt a sigh. He sat in his snug box. Pip had a book but it was a dim night. He could not see the tale. "I want some light!" said Pip.
He thought of Dad. Dad had a light. It was a bright light! Pip ran to get it. He came back to his box. He held the bright light. Pip made his box glow. The light made his box less dim. Now Pip could see the tale. It felt just right! Pip read his book all the night.
Circle or highlight all the IGH long-I words in the story. How many did you find?
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2 Word Sort
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
light
sight
blight
sight
light
blight
fright
fright
light
blight
fright
high
high
high
sight
Target words: high, light, sight, fright, blight
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📖 Decodable Readers
Printable mini-books for Vowel Team — IGH practice. Each reader includes a story + coloring page illustration.
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.