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sight words

by ruth

Dec 7, 2013

How many sight words should a first grders know at in the middle of the year and at the end of the year?

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jo/ma We expect our first graders to read (at a minimum) the preprimer words by early December, the primer words by mid- March, and the first grade list by the end of June. We're on a trimester report card schedule. They work on the words individually at home, getting new words as they progress. My high reading group kids have already finished up with th...See More

Dec 20, 2013

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only if Your first graders should know sight words ONLY if you have already taught the phonics skills they would need to decode those "sight words", except for the rare and very small list of actual sight words. You would most likely started teaching words phonetically, about 3-6 words per day by the end of September, so you can do the math to see how many...See More

Dec 20, 2013

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Cynthia For tips on how to teach reading with phonics and avoiding Sight words, check out your library for "At Last! A Reading Method for Every Child! It teaches a technique for connecting with left-to-right phonics clues in all Sight words. On 12/20/13, only if wrote: > Your first graders should know sight words ONLY if you have > already taught the...See MoreFor tips on how to teach reading with phonics and avoiding Sight words, check out your library for "At Last! A Reading Method for Every Child! It teaches a technique for connecting with left-to-right phonics clues in all Sight words. On 12/20/13, only if wrote: > Your first graders should know sight words ONLY if you have > already taught the phonics skills they would need to decode those > "sight words", except for the rare and very small list of actual > sight words. > > You would most likely started teaching words > phonetically, about > 3-6 words per day by the end of September, > so you can do the math > to see how many you would have taught by > now. Those words should > have been used and reused until they > became sight words. Teaching > words AS sight words, in my > opinion (as a veteran reading teacher > of 30+years) is a great > mistake and diservice to the students. > > Teaching sight words > makes teachers and parents feel wonderful, > because children can > often readily learn about 100-150 sight words > during late kinder > or early first grade, and appear to actually be > reading. The > long-term effect of this is that the students' > academic > vocabulary will expand to include about 10,000 words > within a > year, and their ability to memorize words will begin to > fail > them. At that point, you will have students who have relied > on > being told words, memorizing them, and their memory to add new > words to their reading vocabulary. If they do not have the > prerequisite phonics and decoding skills, their reading progress > will come to a grinding halt by the end of second grade or early > third. My experience has proven that rarely do students who were > taught sight words first ever give up the idea that words are to > be instantly recognized, and seldom do they embrace and use the > tools that phonics provides for decoding and independently adding > words (via usage) to their sight vocabulary once they pass the > first couple of hundred sight words.

Feb 24, 2014

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maureen to "only if" This same topic has come up recently on the K board and your response echoes my own belief about "sight words" I am really surprised at how many trained teachers in the early grades really push that sight word memorization from the very beginning for all the children in K, even the children who might not have any phonetic skills or are actually rea...See More

Feb 24, 2014

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Sara If they do not have the > prerequisite phonics and decoding skills, their reading progress > will come to a grinding halt by the end of second grade or early > third.

I can attest that it's not always a grinding halt - there are some individuals whose brains just do not learn phonics, just do not despite lots of tutoring - Orton ...See More

Feb 25, 2014

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