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Teaching sight words to four year olds

by Shalda Rosado

May 7, 2013

I have a couple of four year olds that are way past the simple color, abc, shapes. All the basic they have down packed and are beginning to get bored during lesson time. How can I introduce sight words to those students? Word wall? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated:)

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childcaretchr On 5/07/13, Shalda Rosado wrote: > I have a couple of four year olds that are way past the > simple color, abc, shapes. All the basic they have down > packed and are beginning to get bored during lesson time. > How can I introduce sight words to those students? Word > wall? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated:) You may want to go ...See More

Jan 21, 2014

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childcaretchr On 1/21/14, childcaretchr wrote: > On 5/07/13, Shalda Rosado wrote: > >> I have a couple of four year olds that are way past the >> simple color, abc, shapes. All the basic they have down >> packed and are beginning to get bored during lesson time. >> How can I introduce sight words to those students? Word >> wal...See More

Jan 21, 2014

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Asica On 1/21/14, childcaretchr wrote: > On 1/21/14, childcaretchr wrote: > >> On 5/07/13, Shalda Rosado wrote: >> >>> I have a couple of four year olds that are way past the >>> simple color, abc, shapes. All the basic they have down >>> packed and are beginning to get bored during lesson time. >>> H...See More

Mar 28, 2014

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pksped Before you throw in sight words, make sure they have a strong foundation in: rhyming: do they match pictures that rhyme? Can they tell one more item (using their imagination) that would also rhyme with that pair of words? beginning sounds: Can they match pictures by beginning sound? Can they tell one more thing (using their imagination) that would ...See MoreBefore you throw in sight words, make sure they have a strong foundation in: rhyming: do they match pictures that rhyme? Can they tell one more item (using their imagination) that would also rhyme with that pair of words? beginning sounds: Can they match pictures by beginning sound? Can they tell one more thing (using their imagination) that would also have that same beginning sound? name: Can they complete their name puzzle (write name on sentence strip and cut each letter apart: NOT jigsaw, but straight lines. The concept is to create their name, not complete a puzzle.) Can they say the letters of their name via memorization? Once they have tackled that, work on their last name. Once they have tackled that, let them try friends' names. Word vs letter: Can they tell how many words are in a sentence? Using the same sentence, can they tell how many letters are in the sentence (or a particular word if it's really long?) This is a hard concept. Sight words: When I do introduce them, I start with concrete words like color words, Mom, and Dad. Yes, color words are long and hard, but they get a picture in their mind when they see "green." That doesn't happen with "up" or "an." After those, I keep them as concrete and common as possible. "can," "like," and "see." You can do TONS with I can see green___/I can see yellow____/I like blue___.

Don't confuse true phonetic reading with a child reading because he has memorized the words in the sentence. It's easy to keep moving a child on to harder text when the child has simply memorized the word chunks and can't comprehend the parts into a whole story.

On 3/28/14, Asica wrote: > On 1/21/14, childcaretchr wrote: > >> On 1/21/14, childcaretchr wrote: >> >>> On 5/07/13, Shalda Rosado wrote: >>> >>>> I have a couple of four year olds that are way past the >>>> simple color, abc, shapes. All the basic they have down >>>> packed and are beginning to get bored during lesson time. >>>> How can I introduce sight words to those students? Word >>>> wall? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated:) > > I tried with sight words, but my children refuse them. So I do > word base on theme we > are talking about, I pick simple words like > cat. I have them glue the letters of the word, > make the word with > letter blocks, or magnetic letters, and for those that can I have > them trace it or write it. I also go over color words. First I wrote > the words on > corresponding color paper, now I have the words on > white paper but written with > marker corresponding to the word (red > with red marker), they like that because they > feel like they can > read. I also work with them on sounds of the letters. I came to > conclusion, that I want them to really know the basics and reading > leave it to > Kindergarden. I hope this helps >

Apr 10, 2014

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Ciera When my son was in pre-k at his daycare began teaching them sight words as standard curriculum. They made flash cards and sent them home for us to keep and practice with. They were tested and they went over them everyday. Mainly, they were the words that they could blend together for the standard sight word list (dolch) and word families like -at a...See More

May 7, 2013

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