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Now, you might be wondering, what do we do with the irregularly spelled sight words?! It would have 4 boxes and students would follow the same steps with /f/ /ir/ /s/ /t/. If you were using the high-frequency word, first. I like to do this using sound boxes and play-dough or counters because we can add a little multi-sensory fun into the activity. I would then show students the letters (or graphemes) that represent each phoneme they hear in the sound. Then, have students count out the phonemes they hear in the word /w/ /i/ and /th/ and they can hear it has 3 different sounds. For example, the words think, when, how, just, can. With these regularly spelled sight words, you will want to do this process in a few steps:įirst, say the word aloud, “with” and have students repeat it back. Remember, many of the words on our high-frequency word list actually include patterns we teach. In this activity, students will map out the sounds they hear in a word and eventually add in the graphemes (letters) for each sound as well! The first activity I want to share for sight words is phoneme mapping.
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A sight word can be a high-frequency word (think Dolch and Fry), but realistically a sight word is ANY word your students have come to recognize by sight! So all the activities shared below can be used for any words you want to teach your students! That’s actually not true, and many sight words CAN be sound out or at the very least, have many recognizable patterns that can be sound out by students.Īs David Kilpatrick shares, when a student memorizes a sight word, what they’ve actually done is memorized the sequence of letters they see in a word. One thing to consider is that for a long time, teachers thought sight words were words that couldn’t be sounded out and instead, needed to be memorized whole so students could recognize them on sight. It includes all the same content but in video format:
#BEGINNING SIGHT WORDS FREE#
In case you want to watch/listen to this information, feel free to watch the video I made for YouTube below.
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#BEGINNING SIGHT WORDS HOW TO#
With sight words in mind, many teachers (self-included) used to call them “snap” words and really try to skill and drill these words into our students’ minds with memorization practice! While rote memorization works for some of our students, the 3 activities I share today align with the research behind the Science of Reading and they’re meant to be simple and fun! As a teacher, you should be able to watch this video, see how to use the activities, then use them in your own classroom right away! If you’ve been hearing a lot about the Science of Reading lately, you are not alone! The Science of Reading has been around for decades, but there seems to be a bit of “buzz” around it right now as teachers are closely looking at their teaching practice in the classroom. Today, I want to share 3 fun and effective activities to teach students how to read sight words.