Teaching Sight Words?

[Anonymous]

Teacher sends home three flash cards a week. What has been your most successful method of teaching these words, other than the obvious "flash card" method?

[Anonymous]

Go fish with the sight words. Take deck of cards, write same words on 2 cards, play go fish. Keep adding each new words and then kids will learn the new ones and reinforce the old ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go fish with the sight words. Take deck of cards, write same words on 2 cards, play go fish. Keep adding each new words and then kids will learn the new ones and reinforce the old ones.

Love this idea! Thanks! Our daughter love to play games, so this is perfect!

[Anonymous]

For my ball-obsessed son: Write the sight words on paper plates. Tape to wall. DS throws foam ball to the sight word I call out.

If I notice a sight word in a book that we are reading together we do a quick word find before reading that page.

[Anonymous]

Most sight words you can phonetically decode. We got other flash cards and wrote each phoneme (sound chunk) on a glashcard and made sure our kid knew the sound. So if the word was them - we had three flash cards - th, e, m. And told our kid when the t and the h come together it makes the /th/ sound. Then practiced blending them. Only after that did we do the whole word on the original card.

[Anonymous]

Read stories/books with the sight words. Have her lesson them by reading them.

[Anonymous]

OP - what grade is this for? I'm curious if this is PK4 or K. And i like the Go Fish idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - what grade is this for? I'm curious if this is PK4 or K. And i like the Go Fish idea!

They do sight words in PK4?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most sight words you can phonetically decode. We got other flash cards and wrote each phoneme (sound chunk) on a glashcard and made sure our kid knew the sound. So if the word was them - we had three flash cards - th, e, m. And told our kid when the t and the h come together it makes the /th/ sound. Then practiced blending them. Only after that did we do the whole word on the original card.

No you can't. That's why they're "sight" words. OP, I wouldn't try to sound them out or "chunk" them with your kid. That will cause a lot of frustration.

Sight word bingo or go fish, writing the words in different forms--shaving cream on table, white board, magnetic tiles, sky writing.

Try writing a word on your kids back to see if he can guess the word. Then you switch, see if you can guess the word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go fish with the sight words. Take deck of cards, write same words on 2 cards, play go fish. Keep adding each new words and then kids will learn the new ones and reinforce the old ones.

Love this idea! Thanks! Our daughter love to play games, so this is perfect!

Memory Match is great, too. We started with five words (10 cards) and just keep adding on each week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most sight words you can phonetically decode. We got other flash cards and wrote each phoneme (sound chunk) on a glashcard and made sure our kid knew the sound. So if the word was them - we had three flash cards - th, e, m. And told our kid when the t and the h come together it makes the /th/ sound. Then practiced blending them. Only after that did we do the whole word on the original card.

If your school is doing phonetic words as sight words, they're doing it wrong - or at least very inefficiently. Sight words are good for getting the kids up and reading with the high-frequency non-phonetic words. (/th/ words are often sight words because kids haven't learned the /th/ blend yet, so them isn't phonetic when you try to sound out /t/ /h/)

[Anonymous]

Don't forget sight words that the school doesn't care about but you do--

we did name of school, sibling names, pet names, grandma, grandpa etc