Revisiting archives ~ Offering a FREE Sight Words sampler
Teaching sight words is a very important and helpful tool to make reading easier for young students from pre-K to Grade 3.
Sight words are words read from memory and often cover almost half the reading material on a page. By memorizing sight words, a child can quickly recognise and read these words without sounding out every letter of each word, making his reading process easier.
“Sight words = often also called high frequency sight words, are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode.” – Wikipedia
What sight word lists to teach? There are 3 main sight word lists:
- Dolche Sight Words
- Fry’s 1000 Sight Words list using more modern words.
- First 100 high frequency word lists
Choose a list, introduce one or two words each day, gradually adding a new word or two, repeating and practicing the previously learned words until your child has learnt the entire list. In a short while, your child will have a wonderful, rich memory bank of instantly recognized words which he can read almost instantly, building his reading speed and ability.
Download your FREE sampler ~ Sight Words Sampler including the Dolche lists with words in sentences and the Dice & Spinner templates.
How to teach sight words? A general rule = Always say the whole word, then spell it out and then say it again, underlining the whole word with the first 2 fingers from left to right.
As in all teaching, you should customize your child’s lists to suit their levels of maturity and ability. When they are ready, they will quickly learn new words and enjoy the learning process.
Sight word games to play
The best way to practice is to have fun! Once the words have been taught, the child must practice those words daily. Many of these games involve physical exercise which, in turn, strengthens core and fine motor muscles and reinforces directions and spatial awareness.
My full 30-page Sight Words EBook has ready-to-print flash cards, suggested games and activities, templates and posters for fun teaching and learning sight words.
Click over to my Packages page and support me by ordering the full 30-page Sight Words Ebook which includes ~
- How to teach sight words lessons with detailed examples.
- 18 Creative Spelling games (one or two players & physical activities
- 24 Spelling ideas with unique activities &fun ideas
- Dolch sight word lists with flashcards & words in sentences
- Fry’s 100 Sight Words
- 100 Frequently used sight word lists
- Spinner and dice templates for games and activities
- Board game and Bingo template
- Links to websites and YouTube videos
References ~ You will find lots of other lists, flashcards, games and downloads on the web ~
- Sight word lessons – www.sightwords.com/ and several additional helpful techniques to teach sight words – http://www.sightwords.com/sight-words/lessons/
- Dolch flash cards – www.sightwords.com
- Dolch word lists for all the grades –www.sightwords.com
- All Dolch words alphabetical order pdf download –www.sightwords.com/
- Sight word games – www.sightwords.com/
- More new sight word games – www.sightwords.com/
- Online sight words games –www.education.com/
- Interactive Printable Flash Cards – www.apples4theteacher.com
Blessings, Nadene
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