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| First Grade Sight Words |
Click on the link below to see the Leander Sight Words your child is expected to know.
These words are divided by the nine week semesters. Help your child practice these words at home by making flash cards. The child should be able to see the word and say it within the snap of your finger.
Also at this website is a list of Fry's Instant Words. This is another list of words that will help your child learn to read.
If your child becomes proficient at these words, the second and third grade words are also included.
classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/elemla/reading.htm
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What are sight words? |
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Reading is one of the most critical skills taught at school. It is virtually impossible for a person to live a productive life in our society without being functionally literate. Children with reading difficulties will undoubtedly have trouble mastering nearly all school subjects even if they are motivated to study. Conversely, children who learn to read in the early grades acquire one of the most basic skills needed to continue their education and be fully-functional as adults.
In many schools students are expected to be able to read simple material by the end of the second grade. One of the most important goals in teaching young students to read is making sure they are completely proficient with Sight Words.
Sight Words (sometimes called the Dolch Word List) are some of the most frequently used words in the English language. Even though they number only about 200, Sight Words comprise approximately 50 to 70 percent of any given general, non-technical text. Therefore, teaching Sight Words as early as possible is considered a crucial part of elementary education. |
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How do we learn them in class? |
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Introduction
On Monday the sight words are introduced. We discuss if there are any other words that we can find "inside" of that word (ex. can contains the word can). We review that these words are useful to know because they usually cannot be sounded out and appear often in the books we read and the stories we write.
Practice
Students will have many opportunities to practice their sight words during the day. I believe that students learn their sight words best when they are reviewed often and in a short time span.
Exposure
Mini books- Students will do a quick sight word activity book at least three times a week
Flash cards- As a class, we go over our sight word flash cards after calendar.
Table groups- Studnets will have a sight word hanging from the cieling over their table group. I will change them daily so that when I call students to to and from their seats, they will constantly be looking for their sight word.
Sight word of the day-A sight word will be posted outside the door to our classroom and will be changed daily. In order to enter our classroom, students must read me the sight word of the day!
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Word Wall |
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A word wall is an alphabetically organized place on the wall in your classroom that you can post sight words that were previously taught. Once a word makes it on the word wall they become a word that all students must spell correctly in their writing because it has already been a spelling word and it is posted on the wall for them to reference. If it is not spelled correctly, I will erase their word and ask them to please look on the word wall. This helps students think about what they are writing. It does not take them long to catch on to the words once they are on the wall!
Goals of the Word Wall:
1. To probide practice recognizing and spelling the high-frequency words that occur in every day reading.
2. To help students look for patterns in words so they can decode and spell less frequently used words they have not been taught.
3. To help children learn to read, spell and write independently.
Word wall games
We often play games with the sight words on the word wall to help students learn how to read and spell them.
Clap, Chant, and write
1. Student number a sheet of paper from one to five.
2. Call out five words form the word wall using each word in a sentence.
3. After the words have been written, pint to each word while the students clap and chant the spelling.
Review Rhyme with the Word Wall
1. Follow the same procedures as Clap, Chant, and Write but write a rhyming word for the word you give.
2. Give the initial letter and the rhyming word. Ex. "number one begins with t and rhymes with walk."
Cheer for the Words
1. Give the student a half sheet of handwriting paper numbered 1-5.
2. Call out the first word and have student focus on it.
3. Have the student "cheer" for the word "B-O-Y--BOY!"
5. After all five words are looked at, cheered for, and written, lead the student to check the spelling and handwriting by drawing around the shapes of the words.
Review Endings with the Word wall
1. Call out some words that need endings.
2. Start with s; then move on to ed and ing.
3. Do not use words with spelling changes until taught
Be a mind reader
1. Have the student number from one to five on scratch paper.
2. Write your word on paper and then give students five clues. They will then write the word on their paper. They should be able to guess or "read your mind" before you get to the fifth clue
3. Clues can look like this
It is one of thewords on the word wall.
It has four letters.
It begins with th.
The vowel is e.
It finishes the sentence I gave my books to....
There are many more activities and I encourage you to play them at home as you practice your sight words!
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