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[quote=Anonymous][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, you really just need to teach many sight words as words you memorize.[/quote]

I agree this is a problem.  The Leveled Reading books schools use to monitor reading progress are based on a sight word method of teaching reading.  I wish schools would adopt the Diebels Nonsense Word Fluency Test instead.[/quote]

We use both and I hate the leveled reading texts we have to use to assess reading levels. NWF gives me a lot more info about a student than their ability to read a leveled text that follows a certain pattern.[/quote]

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