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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with students learning sight words phonetically is that they won't get through those lessons (the spellings one of the PPs had in the You Tube link) until the end of first grade or even second grade. Students are expected to be reading on a level D at the end of kindergarten. Look at a level A book. "I see the ________. I see the ________." Etc. If students don't learn long vowels until first grade (ee), they won't be able to read a level A book until then. Unless the expectations change for what reading on grade level means, [b]you really just need to teach many sight words as words you memorize.[/b][/quote]

The problem with this is that it doesn't set up kids to be able to read harder words in 3rd and 4th grade.  There are simply too many words for them to memorize.  The kids in the higher reading groups can decode, but those in the lower ones usually can't unless it is explicitly taught (and it probably wont be, as long as teachers know they need to really push the sight words to move the kids to the next reading level.) . 
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So you end up where we are in many schools... with a group of persistently low reading kids permanently stuck in the below grade level reading group.  If they don't learn to decode by second grade they are probably sunk... unless their parents get them a tutor.[/quote]

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