If needed, repeat until your child locates and colors in the sight words. Prompt your child to find words by asking, and allow for thinking time. If your child struggles, take the reading very slowly, reading one sentence at a time.
When your child recognizes a sight word from the word bank, he or she will shade the word right in the story. After your child has shaded over each word, help your child read through the passage out loud.
Crayons or colored pencils for color coding words.įirst, instruct your child to make a key of colors by shading over the printed sight words in the word bank, selecting a new color for each word.Sight words prinable worksheets with a short story or passage.
Sight words are everywhere, including your child’s favorite stories! This strategy allows your child to recognize sight words in favorite stories and passages! What You’ll Need By decorating the journal, kids personalize their work and invest themselves in their own learning. By writing out each word, kids gain confidence with reading the words they write. Kids learn through repetition and practice. Whether they see it on TV, on an advertisement, in a book, or anywhere else, help your child to notice that week’s words, and refer back to their journal daily! Why It Works Once your child is done with the week’s words in the journal, review the sight words daily, and encourage your child to search for each word anywhere they can find it. You can even help your child write each word in a sentence on the page. Your child can feel free to decorate and color this page any way they’d like, and draw pictures, to represent the words. Show your child the list, and have him or her copy the words into the journal on one page. Use only three or four sight words per week, and label each week’s words clearly on the page. Start out with a list for early readers that are high frequency, easy-to-identify two or three letter words. Once it’s ready, consult your child’s teacher, or search the internet for sight words for beginner readers. Colored pencil, or any writing utensil.Įncourage your child to decorate their journal.Perfect for artsy kids, creating a sight words journal is a fun way to practice reading, writing, and finding sight words every day! What You’ll Need This technique allows kids to use the context of a sentence to select the correct words, giving them valuable practice using the words in a way that connects to everyday language. When mere memorization doesn’t work, kids need another strategy to help with sight words. Finally, talk your child through the process of selecting the correct sight word to complete each sentence. Help your child to read the sentences and sight words out loud. Lay out the flash cards to give your child a word bank to select the correct sight word that would complete the sentence. When ready to begin, present each sentence to your child, one by one. Instead of completing the sentences, leave a blank where the sight word would be. On the sentence strips, simply create sentences that use the sight words your child will be studying. Prepare ahead of time by determining which sight words to target, and creating flashcards with those words written on the blank side of the notecards.