Welcome to the Reading Corner!
What Good Readers Do
LOOK at the pictures and words
Point to the word
Get your mouth ready
Sound out the word slowly, then get faster and faster
Skip the word if you aren't sure and come back later
Read aloud and think: "hmm... does this make sense?"
Wow! Now read with expression
Below are the sight word lists that we use for kindergarten and first grade. Sight words are important in that they are words that are difficult to sound out - learning sight words helps your child be a more fluent reader and helps them feel really successful. Feel free to use them to play some of the games that I have listed below. In kindergarten, the students are only expected to learn list one. But go ahead and get a head start over the summer if you want to. Remember not to make your learning sessions to long, children will switch "off" if things are forced. Have Fun!
Sight word activities:
- A really fun site to practice sight words on is woordle.com. It is a site that you can create word posters on. What I have done with my own children is I take their word list and type in the words they need to work on for the week. Woordle creates a really fun and crazy poster of your words and then we print it and then go outside and recreate the poster using chalk on the driveway. Not only are they practicing the words on the driveway, but they get keyboard practice as well!!
- You can play a game of sight word scrabble using a regular Scrabble board or just using the letter tiles right on the table!
- Find and cut out selected words from newspapers or magazines and make a collage.
- Play hangman using sight words.
- With 2 sets of cards play a memory game.
- Place words in alphabetical order.
- Play "who am I" - children guess the word you are describing. I have 5 letter, I begin with "t" etc...
- Go for a word walk.
- Place chosen words on the floor. Toss a coin over the words. Child says the word that coin lands on or near.
- Hang them all around the house and have them read them every time they switch on a light or walk down the stairs, etc.
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