Okay, I taught my youngest her sight words from plain ol' index cards but she is a quick learner and did well w/ flashcards. I also had a million minutes on my hands back then and a million ideas as well and I don't anymore. I need some quick and easy ideas on how to teach the basic sight words to my son. He is reading easy words now by sounding them out so I would like to start him on some easy readers soon. Got any ideas for me?
1) ABCTeach has dolch word lists in it's site. You might want to look at that/print them. Paste them onto construction paper (one word per piece of small paper) and them stick them up all over your home. When your child sees them, ask them "what's this word?" You could make a game out of it, giving points for each word they recognize and then have some kind of reward for them after they achieve "X" number of points. 2) When you read to them and you get to the sight words - don't you say them rather ask the child what the word is possibly having a point system for getting the word right. This could eventually work when it comes to "branch off" words (it=bit, fit, lit, pit, sit, etc). Just some suggestions that I hope might work for you. Good Luck
I'm just starting sight words with dd. With ds the ps teacher had them write the word on the index card themselves and did a word a day in order of usage (1. the, 2. of, 3. and....). She made a hole with a punch in each card and attached them to a an easily opened key ring. Then you flipped through them each day to keep the old ones in mind as well. They were rewarded in small ways when they reached certain goals...first ten, then 25 and so on for the first 100. I figured I'd use this method with dd since she is anxious to read anything she can....maybe not the rewards, but we'll certainly celebrate in some way! Everything is so exciting for her right now .
When my daughter learned the first ten words, plus the ones she could sound out, I would read to her but have her read every word she mastered. She loved it. It made her feel so big to be able to read with mommy. I kept my finger under the line, moving along as I read. I paused when it was her turn and she filled it in.
'Games for reading' by Peggy Kaye has fun ideas to reinforce sight words. Heres some web sites I have http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell1.htm http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/485.html http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents.htm http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/siteword.html http://www.gate.net/~labooks/xLPDolch.html Hope that helps.
I can't even explain how Poppet began to read! It was kind of a sight word/phonics hybrid... LOL! I think that flashcards sound like a good idea .
Becky....that is exactly what I was looking for! But, they are out of stock on the parent version. I'll have to get that when it's back in stock. Thanks!!! >>> Oh, cool! I just found that set at Academic Book Services so I won't have to wait for it to get back in stock afterall! Thanks again!
I took every ones ideas and just made sight word cards, number cards with small stickers under the numbers and colors with colored markers---I love my BIC mark-it, they are like sharpies but cheaper and they have rubber grips by the tip.
I teach site words to my kindergarten class at sunday school. (all boys!) we do lots of "wiggly" activities: I used my sizzix and punched out die cut letters and they did rubbings I had them spell out the word with their body (one letter per kid - they thought that was really funny!) make the word with Letter magnets, letter beads, letter stamps, scrabble letters write the words out on the sidewalk with chalk point the words out when it comes up in story, and have them tell me what the word is. that's all I can think of off the top of my head... elissa
Oh, I used to make hopscotch games with big pieces of butcher paper and write the sight words we were studying in each square. I forgot I did that. Hmm, I guess I need to use chalk outside since we don't have butcher paper.
