Page 13 - Educators Guide Book

Sight Words

Techniques for Teaching Sight Words:

• Students are expected to master approximately 150 - 200 sight words.
• Teach High Frequency and Irregular words.

• Use a varied list of sight words versus just those in a leveled reader.

• Teach 3 new words at a time. Do not replace or add a new word until an “old” word is
mastered.

• Review some old and all new words consistently each week.

• Introduce words with a chant or song in which the children spell the words and write them
in the air.

• Have the children form the new words out of wikki sticks or pipe cleaners.

• Mix up the order of the words when reviewing.
• Use the words in a variety of contexts (i.e. lists, sentences, stories).

• Have student write the sight words in the air, on a white board and or on paper in large
print.

• Put a few words on a white board and ask the student to erase a word that is read to him/
her or used in a sentence.

• Put a few words on a white board, provide a clue and ask the student to erase the word to
which you are referring.

• Allow the student to be the teacher. Have them read words to you, and you erase them.
• Have student write sentences with the words.

• Have student locate sight words in a text.

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