![]() ![]() I'm not putting these ideas down, they are great hands on ways to practice spelling sight words. How do you make recognizing and reading sight words hands on? You can rainbow write, use play-doh and shaving cream. I have always found my TACTILE learners the hardest to reach when instructing sight words. But now students ask for them by name! Additionally, any big body movement you use with the chants, help to activate your tactile learners. ![]() In the beginning of the year, I pick the chants, so they can be introduced. Tune can cause confusion for my struggling readers. I try to predict which words are going to be trickyĪnd use each tune only once. I keep these right next to my small group table and I use them daily. Here is a link to some sight word chants and songs. This helps with memory and writing, so it's a win win. Auditory support can best be given through spelling out the sight words. My favorite way, and an effective way for my students, is to sing or chant our sight words. Even if your struggling student isn't reading along (right now), they are getting that auditory support from their peers. Then ask students which word your are thinking of. You could first keep the card covered, while you spell the word out loud. You can have students read to each other or do a whole class read of your word wall in silly voices. Now, those flash cards aren't so bad, but let's explore some ways to use them better. ![]() One way to do this, is to read sight words aloud as much as possible. However, we can try to incorporate as much auditory feedback for our students as possible. This can be a struggle because sight words are visually dependent. Many of our students are AUDITORY learners. Allowing your students to be involved in the process of connecting visual pictures to words will only help the words to "stick". Now, they can flip it over if they get stuck. If you are teaching the word 'friend', have your students draw two friends on the back of an index card with the word on the front. If you are teaching the word 'down', write the letters d-o-w-n on an index card, in a downward direction. You can help your visual learners even more by providing a picture clue that relates to the word. However, to assume that a student will visually recognize that word after seeing it on a flashcard is a bit unrealistic. The shape the letters make allow students to know what the word is. We are growing readers! Let's give them all we've got! Our students need to know what the word is, how to recognize it, and how it is used in context. This time of introducing words is critical. Flash cards may have their time and place, but I can say with good confidence, that they do not have a place in a first time explicit sight word lesson. This means I'm not alone in my hunt and wish for better sight word instruction.įIRST TIME instruction should be fun, engaging and get students excited to read. At the same time, I have also watched a lot of introductory sight word lessons much like the story I shared. I have seen some amazing lessons and instructional strategies. ![]() Let's get started, and explore "How to Effectively and Explicitly Teach Sight Words"Īs I admitted, my early sight word instructional practices were lacking! In my time as a reading intervention teacher, I have pushed into a lot of classrooms for reading support, and I love this opportunity! There is no one we can learn more from, than our colleagues. ![]()
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