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Moms of those learning to read?
How do you learn sight words? We have about 30+ that DS#1 can read from the flash cards with no problem, but seems to still miss quite a few when we read books.
Any ideas on how to practice in a different way to help him recognize the words not on an index card?
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Re: Moms of those learning to read?
Words they can recognize on sight without having to sound them out.
Maybe the BOB books?
Or I had a friend just recommend "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" (book). I Have it on hold at the library but cannot give a review yet...
This is how Lucy's doing it too. And they have one or two sight words in their spelling words every week too.
I'd try the BOB books. Other than that, lots and lots of practice.
words like: the, and, an, all, am, be, but that, etc...
we JUST gave away all our BOB books but those do work great as well. maybe try pointing them out in your every day activities - while at the store, in the paper, on the box of cereal, etc... we used to have DS use all his new words in a sentence - or even try to say a few sentences using ONLY his sight words (with a few added in for consistency).
To us (we use the Montessori School with Orton Gillingham method supplementing for Dyslexia/ADD/Dysgraphia) sight words are words that are high frequency in reading but do not follow the phonics rules (they call them "jail" words)...like "the", "then", "two", "you", "read", "read", etc. Words that if you sounded out with basic phonics they would be read wrong. Like "ball" follows the rules so you wouldn't have to memorize the word by sight...but "the" does not for example.
One thing that my DD did was read sight words timed & then chart her progress on graph paper. So the more words you read each day in say 30 seconds, you get to color in that number of boxes...it shows direct progress & motivates the kid. Also printing out sight words & taping them (multiple pages eventually) in a loop you turn with your arms. So it starts as a small loop & you time how long it takes to complete the loop...gradually you add words & the loop gets bigger. It increases the quickness & recall for them & it's fun for the kid. Those are the 2 that DD really enjoyed.
We just have a list of sight words from school taped on the bathroom mirror. He likes checking off the ones he knows. i check to see if he remembers ones we checked a while ago, and he does. I like the circular list idea.
Not sight words, but we did these for word families (easy this time of year)
http://livingandlearningnow.blogspot.com/2009/03/word-family-eggs.html
and I got some of these to make kind of a flip chart thing with flash cards:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008XPLC/ref=oh_o01_s00_i00_details