Sight Words

Sight words are critical to reading not only because they are used so frequently, but also because many of them cannot easily be sounded out or illustrated. ... Because they are used so often it is important that readers be able to recognize these words on sight.

In our grade one classroom we call these words popcorn words.  Each week we select 10 new words to practice reading and spelling.  We do this in many ways so that is engaging for students.  For instance we watch YouTube videos 5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5NANKteuVs We also make words with letter magnets, play-do, wiki sticks and letter tiles.

Here are the words that we learned this week: 

-and

-the

-me

-am

-play

-my

-look

-you

-see

-can

You can practice these words with your child by highlighting magazines, news papers, cutting out the letters to make words, or by making the words in sand or Play-Doh and playing I-spy with books that you are reading together.

Making cue cards with these words on them is also a great way to practice these at home.