Sight Words

All the boys and girls have been working on increasing their sight word banks. Sight words are words that people need to recognize automatically. The words generally do not follow a pattern and can not be sounded out. Once the students know a lot of sight words their reading is able to become more fluent. Each child has a ring of 6 sight words to practice in class. At least once a week I ask each child to read me their words. If they are able to read a word automatically they receive a sticker on their card. After getting 3 stickers the card gets moved to an envelope for later review and more words are added to the ring. We play Sight Word Bingo and Roll, Say, Keep to practice the words. Some of the boys and girls also choose to practice their words during the first 5 minutes of class when I am working with individual students and doing progress monitoring. Here is a great link for sight words. First graders can start with set 1 and work their way up. Seond graders can start with set 3. The children can try to say the word and then check themselves by running the mouse over the word and the computer will say the word. There are many, many different sight word lists. While this list is different than the list I am using in class there is much overlap and your child will increase their word bank by using this sight.