All you need is a flash card for each of the sight words you are covering in the lesson. The lessons get the child up to a baseline level of competence that is then reinforced by the games, which take them up to the level of mastery. The exercises combine many repetitions of the word (seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing) with physical movements that focus the child’s attention and cement each word into the child’s long-term memory. These techniques work together to activate different parts of the brain. Table Writing - A child writes the letters on a table, first looking at and then not looking at the flash card.Air Writing - A child says the word, then writes the letters in the air in front of the flash card.Arm Tapping - The child says the word and then spells out the letters while tapping them on his arm, then reads the word again.Spell Reading - The child says the word and spells out the letters, then reads the word again.See & Say - A child sees the word on the flash card and says the word while underlining it with her finger.Introduce new sight words using this sequence of five teaching techniques: You do not want one child to be regularly embarrassed in front of his classmates when he struggles with words the others have already mastered! NOTE: Be sure the child has a pretty good grasp of a sight word before using it in a game, especially if you are working with a group of children.

The games are of course the most entertaining part of the sight words program, but they need to wait until after the first part of the sight words lesson. We have numerous sight words games that will make that repetition fun and entertaining for you and your child. Learning sight words takes lots of repetition. Use your game time to provide lots of repetition for these words until the child has thoroughly mastered them. Note: The child should have a good grasp of - but does not need to have completely mastered - a word before it gets replaced in your lesson plan. If he has trouble with more than two of the review words, then set aside the new words you were planning to introduce and devote that day’s lesson to review. If your child struggles to recognize a word, cover that word again in the main lesson, going through all five teaching techniques. Go through the See & Say exercise for each of the review words. Remember: solid knowledge of a few words is better than weak knowledge of a lot of words! Words often need to be covered a few times for the child to fully internalize them. 2.2 Review Old Wordsīegin each subsequent lesson by reviewing words from the previous lesson.

As your child gets more advanced, you might increase the number of words you work on in each lesson. This part of a sight words session should be brisk and last no more than ten minutes. This lesson should establish basic familiarity with the new words. Then introduce the second word, and go through all five teaching techniques, and so on. Hold up the flash card for the first word, and go through all five techniques, in order. Introduce one word at a time, using the five teaching techniques. When first beginning sight words, work on no more than three unfamiliar words at a time to make it manageable for your child.

Sight word games 1st grade