Sight Words for Beginning Reading | Kindergarten Sight Words Level 2 | Beginning Reading Skills

Sight words for beginning reading. Kindergarten Sight words Level 2. This video is designed to help children learn sight words in a fun and entertaining way.

Sight words is a common term in reading that has a variety of meanings. When it is applied to early reading instruction, it typically refers to the set of about 100 words that keeps reappearing on almost any page of text. “Who, the, he, were, does, their, me, be” are a few examples.

In addition to their being very frequent, many of these words cannot be “sounded out.” Children are expected to learn them by sight (that is, by looking at them and recognizing them, without any attempt to sound them out.)

Unfortunately, this means minimal teaching. Often, little is done other than to show the word and tell the child what it is “saying.” For many children, this is not enough, with the result that their reading of these critical words is laden with error.

What does this mean for parents who are helping their children master reading? Basically, it means spending some time truly teaching these words so that your child gains real mastery of them. The key to achieving this goal is accurate writing (spelling)—via memory. That is, the child writes the word when the model is not in view.

You can do this by creating simple sentences that the child reads. (By using sentences, you will automatically be using many “sight words.” In addition, you will be giving your child the opportunity to deal with words in context—a key to meaningful reading) After showing the sentence and having your child read it, turn it over and then dictate the sentence. If there is an error, you immediately stop your child and take away the paper. Then you show the model again and repeat the process. In other words, the writing of the sentence has to be fully accurate, starting with the first word.

All in all, sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that don’t follow the rules of spelling or the six syllable types. These words have to be memorized because decoding them is really difficult. Students are taught to memorize sight words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills. Put simply, sight words are words that we teach our young readers to know by heart. That way, they don’t have to spend valuable time decoding them.

How to Teach Your Kids Sight Words

Learning how to teach sight words is a difficult task and may take a lot of trial and error. From the earliest days of school, we begin to develop the techniques required to read. These encompass all types of words: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and objects. Sight words are the 220 words that a reader can readily recognize as soon as he or she sees them. Many of them can not be represented by pictures and have to be learned by sheer memorization. Sight words, often known as high-frequency words and, Dolch words make up approximately 65 percent of the words that we read.

To help a child develop the vocabulary they will require to read with excellent proficiency, it is a good idea to begin to teach them sight words before they head off to school and then each year in school. There are lists of sight words broken down into grade levels to aid parents and teachers in determining which words to concentrate their efforts on, depending on the age and grade level of the child.

Teaching Sight Words

Repetition
The key to memorizing facts about any subject is repetition. The more often the facts are presented to you, the easier it is to memorize the facts. This rule of thumb is also true about sight words. Keep them in front of the child and make sure they understand their meaning and that they can use the words in sentences.

Write a Story
You will find that high frequency words are easier to teach if you can make it fun for kids, and one way to do that is by writing a story that includes the words. This could be any kind of story and does not have to be something that is very complicated... In fact it shouldn't be complex. Think about a theme that you can write about that would be great for both girls and boys and use it to build a story.

Flash Cards
The tried and true flash card can encourage learning through sight recognition. Continuous use of flash cards with sight words will mean that students will pick up the most common sight words quickly.

Rewards
Teaching young children is easiest when you do something that they like and reward them for a job well done. Use stickers, snacks or small toys as options to help children learn better. When something motivates them, they learn better and actually want to learn.

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