![]() ![]() BINGO - make a bingo board and fill in the board with your child's sight words (depending on their age, your child could do this for additional practice writing their words, or you can fill in a board for them).Magnetic letters - have your child use magnetic letters to make their words.Stamps - if you have alphabet stamps your child can stamp their words out!.Playdoh - have your child practice making their words in Playdoh.Sidewalk Chalk - have your child practice writing their words on the driveway or sidewalk in chalk.Skywriting - have your child make the letters of their words by putting their arm straight out and having two pointing fingers make large movements to form each letter in the word, saying them aloud as they "write" them. ![]() Some games you can play or activities that you can do at home to help your child learn sight words include: You can also play several games with the words to help your child learn the sight words! You can use the flashcard files to print off for additional practice for your child. The attached files have the sight words that can be downloaded for your child to practice at home! These files include the words that are expected to be learned in kindergarten, first and second grade. Beginning in kindergarten students will be working to learn to read and write sight words. When your child comes to a sight word in their reading they should not attempt to sound them out (many cannot be sounded out, for example the words "the" or "was"). Sight words are words that should be able to be recalled quickly as they will help your child's reading to remain fluent and will help to maintain comprehension of what has been read. Finally, encouraging students to use the word wall and expand their writing from one sentence to three or four, will be the last steps.Sight word recognition is a very important skill in order to help ensure reading success. Providing sentence models, perhaps on sentence strips, is the next step. Modeling, or writing together, is the first step. Often with emerging writers, your goal is to get the pencil on the paper. Perhaps you can create a writing page with the sight vocabulary you are working on, and place those words in a word bank, telling the students that they must use 3 of the 5 words, or you can always generate writing by starting out with a model or a suggestion. ![]() For writing practice, provide templates that offer opportunities to use the new words. ![]() When you find the words you are working on, you can design small group instruction around the books. Reading A-Z offers a wide range of books to support instruction: you can even search by sight words. Your reading series will have a decodable book you can print out, and have students highlight high-frequency words you have put on the word wall. It will provide your students with practice. Print out the free printable flash cards, create lots of extra cards, and have your students dictate. Create sentences together with a pocket chart.You may also want to print pictures of student's favorite rock groups, sports stars or animals as the prompt for their writing. If your student is significantly delayed, you want to be sure you use age-appropriate themes for your writing: favorite music groups, etc. Wherever your students are developmentally and in terms of age will impact how you use these strategies. You will want to shape the instructional strategies to your student's communication and fine motor skills (often they hate to hold a pencil). These worksheets are only part of helping your students acquire this important vocabulary. ![]()
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