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[quote=Anonymous]I've made two copies of the sight word index cards.  So we have a pair for each of the 33 words DS is supposed to know by the end of kindergarten.

We're playing with ten at a time.  Once he learns the first ten backwards, forwards and in all sorts of contexts, we'll move on to the next ten.

The whole idea is to play games.  We're not drilling just to drill.  We're finding things DS actually wants to do with us.

Here's what's worked so far:

We started just by sorting the pairs of the first 10 words.  Basically, DS gets to mix up the cards however he wanted, then tosses them in the air in the playroom and lets them land wherever they land.  It makes a big mess, which he loves.  :)  Then we set a timer (he loves timers) and he races to match up the pairs.  Just looking at the words and finding their match helps with word recognition, even if he doesn't know what it says yet.

Once he has them all matched, we read each pair together, mix them up again and read each card individually, placing it with it's match so they're back in pairs.  It seems repetitive (which is the point), but he likes it!

We also play memory match.  Again, using the ten pairs we're working with at a time.  We read the pairs.  Then we mix them up and lay out the board.  EVERY time either of us flips over a card, DS reads it.  If he doesn't know it, I read it to him and he repeats it.  At the end of the game, we count up our pairs to see who wins.  He reads his pairs to me, then he reads my pairs, too.  In all, it's a TON of practice in the form of a game.

You can do the same thing with Go Fish, but only after he pretty much knows the words and is now working on speed/instant recognition.

GL.[/quote]

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