![]() ![]() Tuesday: I ntroduce word 2 and repeat steps from Monday KINDERGARTEN SIGHT WORDS LIST HOW TOMonday: I ntroduce word 1, talk about the letters in the word, how to say it, spell it, and identify it with a foldable book they can take home to their parents to show them the new word. Here’s a little snapshot of what it looks like:Ģ sight words per week, introduced in small groups during literacy centers, starting with List 1 I created 7 lists, of 9 kindergarten sight words each, and made it a schedule for the week, which helps the students and parents tremendously since they know what to expect. If they still need time to learn letters and sounds, I’d focus on that first!) (I would make sure your students have a good understanding of letter identification before moving on to sight words. I started by choosing the words I wanted to use and ordering them from the least difficult to the most difficult, while still making sure they were appropriate for kindergarten. After seeing how much my students improved, I wanted to share it with all the other struggling kindergarten teachers out there! Let’s get to it! I Googled so many sight word lists and ideas and finally created a system that worked for me and my class. (hello first year teacher problems!)įast forward to my third year of teaching, I knew I had to fix something. Every time I gave a sight word assessment, I panicked because I had no clue if I was “doing it right”. We didn’t really have a way to “teach” the students sight words, it was just a list of words my kids were expected to know by the end of the year. And, if a picture accompanies the text, your child may be able to determine what the story is about and come away with a few new words under her belt.When I first started teaching kindergarten, I remember sight words were a beast I was not ready to tackle. If your child is familiar with the sight words, she may be able to decode the meaning of the paragraph or sentence by reading the sight words. Sight words provide clues to the context of the text.She will already know at least half of the words, so focusing on the other half helps strengthen her understanding of the text. When your child opens her book for the first time, instead of trying to decipher what ALL of the words mean, she can shift her attention to focus on those words she is not familiar with. Sight words help promote reading comprehension.If your child begins to read a book and can already recognize the words, chances are he won’t feel discouraged and put the book down, rather he’ll have more confidence to read it all the way through. Because the first 100 sight words represent over 50% of English text, a child who has mastered the list of sight words can already recognize at least half of a sentence. Many of the over 200 “sight words” do not follow the basic phonics principles, thus they cannot be “sounded out.” Beginning readers need an effective strategy for decoding unknown words, and being familiar with sight words is an effective method. There are different sight words for every grade level. Each set of words builds upon the other, meaning that once your child learns the sight words in Kindergarten, he will be expected to still recognize those words as he learns new words in first grade, and so forth. Sight words are very important for your child to master because, believe it or not, “sight words account for up to 75% of the words used in beginning children’s printed material”, according to Study to Identify High-Frequency Words in Printed Materials, by D.J. Kear & M.A. What Are Sight Words and Why Are They Important? ![]()
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