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Delightful Reading…how to teach sight words?
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We are on page 32 of the Delightful Reading lessons and are working through the short vowel word-building lessons. On the left side of this page is a list of some of the most commonly used words in the English language, and a suggestion to make sure the kids know these words before we finish the book. Question…is this a suggestion to teach these at this point in the lessons, along with the word families? If so, how do you suggest doing it? Similar to teaching the word families? I’m thinking of leaving them up on our white board and going over them several times a week. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.
we are learing sight words by printing them on white paper and stapling them to colored construction paper. I change the color every group of ten.
I am teaching them in groups of ten. I print out a worksheet with handwriting lessons and then we start using the words. If one of the words appear in everday life we all shout spelling word!
I took a coil of magnetic tape and made magnetic cloths pins.’
We use the clothspins to make up new sentences on the refrigerator. Just clip to a new word and they hang nicely!
Hope this helps. I make up my worksheets at spellcity.com
blkateri14, the words listed on page 32 correspond to the word families on that page, yes. You would teach them in the same way the informal lesson ideas are presented on pages 30 and 31 — through play activities, using your child’s loose letters. Pages 30 and 31 present the specific steps you would go through for the combinations of “at,” “en,” and “od.” So just continue those same steps with other combinations, and be sure to include the combinations for the words listed in the Notes column.
Many of those words will be reviewed in the reading selections once you get to the actual reading lessons. But this would be a good time to introduce them.
Does that make sense? I’m not sure I’m explaining it clearly.
Thank you, farmhousephoto…you gave some good ideas!
Thank you, too, Sonya, that does help. I see now that all of those words would naturally be taught if I specifically worked on the word families that each of them is a part of (except the word ‘use’). Thus far, I’ve only been teaching words in a family that rhyme. I guess I should be teaching those that don’t rhyme, too? When I start to add in those that don’t rhyme, I should just point that out and teach it anyway? Forgive me if this is something that should be common sense to me. I’m a rookie!
No problem. Glad it helped.
Yes, throughout Delightful Reading you will be naturally including words that are in the same word family but don’t rhyme. It’s a great way to show the child that English is full of anomalies in both reading and spelling. Simply point out that “this one sounds different from the others.”
Be sure to focus most of your time and attention on words that will mean something to the child, and most likely, those little exceptions to the rhyming words will stand out in his mind.
Sounds like you’re doing just fine as a “rookie.”
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