![]() ![]() If your child is feeling anxious or learning English, it’s only natural for her to sometimes feel overwhelmed. Children who feel fearful and anxious in classes often have so much going on inside their heads that they have trouble concentrating. It will help your child feel more confidentįeelings can have a huge impact on learning. Helping your child memorize sight words will give your child a little leg up. Children who are doing well will be seen as strong students who can handle more. However, some teachers may also stereotype the kids by their ability. Children who are struggling will be flagged for extra help, which is good. Raising the teacher’s expectationsįirst grade is when teachers begin to regularly assess children’s reading ability. It’s hard and tiring! But if your child knows many common words by sight, she’ll have more brain power to focus on reading new, tougher words and thinking about what those words mean. Reading unfamiliar words takes a lot of mental energy. If your child can recognize and easily read these high-frequency words, it will help speed up your child’s process of learning to read. It will give your child’s reading an extra boost. (Print our lists of sight words for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade.) Why is it so useful for parents to help kids learn sight words? There are different lists of sight words for kids in preschool through third grade. They’re very common words that your child will see over and over in pretty much every children’s book. As a result, they’re called “sight words”. ![]() ![]() They’re supposed to be able to recognize them on sight. They’re not supposed to use the letter sounds to sound them out. I was so pleased (and, admittedly, a bit surprised) at how well she did! She enjoyed the game so much that we played it three times.Īnd even though she was playing against a much stronger reader, she won two times – thanks to the roll of the dice.During first grade in the U.S., children are often expected to memorize certain simple words. Since she’s not ready for the games in the packet, I used the the free editable version and typed in my own words (email subscribers can find this for free in the subscriber library!). (This is all thanks to the lessons we’ve been doing from my favorite preschool reading curriculum, Reading the Alphabet). She is not ready for the preprimer sight word list yet, but she does know a few sight words and can sound out words that end with -at. The first player to reach the squirrel, wins!.If a player lands on a fall picture, s/he takes a card and reads the list as quickly and clearly as possible. If a player lands on a word, s/he reads it aloud. Take turns moving around the board by rolling the die.Then print the board and accompanying cards. I don’t want them to be discouraged that they are playing a first grade level game.Įach game also comes with a set of word cards. I chose to use a kind of “code” to write the levels because I realize you may use these games with older, struggling readers. In the above example, the game is for the preprimer sight word list. You can find the level for each game in the upper right hand corner. ![]() Since each game can only feature 20 words, I created three games for each level. There are 5 main lists for the Dolch sight words: preprimer, primer, first, second, and third grade. (2022 Update: I don’t create games like this anymore, because I believe that most high frequency words are best taught within the context of phonics lessons. My blog subscribers have been asking for sight word games – so I created a set of games that feature all the Dolch sight words … from the preprimer list all the way to the third grade list. ![]()
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