Patterned writing with repeating phrases helps put the words in context and gives them meaning. Students always enjoy reading class books they have made.
I usually have the students do the writing, but these are some cuties from my days teaching preschool special ed. Teaching words through music gives students an auditory cue to go along with the visual. As we learned new words we would add them to our song book and sing the words whenever we had a few extra minutes.
WORD RINGS As teachers we do all of these great activities to make the words stick, but behold, there are still some students that just simply cannot remember the words.
Or they may get stuck on just a few words. It can be so frustrating!!!! High frequency words are tough for students because many of the words do not have concrete meanings that help students make learning connections.
One of my favorite and most successful word activities is to have the students put those tough words in context on a word ring. This is individualized so it can be time consuming. However, the benefits far outweigh the time spent!
Choose a few words that the student is having trouble with. Write one word on the front of the card. I like to use these fun colored strips from Dollar Tree, but cut up sentence strips or index cards work well too. Have the student come up with a sentence using that word.
This part can take awhile, but DO NOT give the student a sentence-it must come from them so they construct their own meaning. This is also a sneaky way to get them to practice constructing complete sentences. Write the sentence on the back of the card making the target word bold. A double sided black sharpie is the perfect tool for writing the cards. Punch a hole in the corner of the card and place the word cards on a ring.
Read the word to the student and flip the card over and read the sentence. Repeat for the remaining words. Next, have the student read the word followed by the sentence for each word.
They refer to words that you can decode instantly — that is, you can identify them and comprehend their meaning at first glance or sight. As you can see, there is a difference between high frequency sight words and sight vocabulary in reading — however, they are also related when it comes to building your reading skills. Make sense so far? Now you understand the difference between high frequency sight words and sight vocabulary in reading!
Turning high frequency words into sight vocabulary for readers not only speeds up reading, it makes it easier as well. Building up your word bank with more high frequency words also leads to improved fluency — i.
And fluency in turn contributes to greater reading comprehension, because converting high frequency words into sight vocabulary helps build recall until you automatically access the meaning of a word on sight. Reading therefore becomes more natural and meaningful, compared to if you were struggling to decode each word before moving on to the next. As a result, in order to decode, you need to know phonics. This refers to the relationship between letters and combinations of letters, and their specific sounds.
If you look at the reading process on a molecular level, you decode when you break down a word into its graphemes letters and corresponding phonemes the smallest units of sound a word is made up of. As an adult, this process is pretty much intuitive for you, and comes so naturally it takes a couple of milliseconds, without you consciously having to push the process along. The best way to learn high frequency words and often words in general for beginning readers is within the context of what they are reading.
Isolating these words to teach kids works to some extent — holding up flashcards, spelling the word in unison, chanting it together as a class, etc. For very early readers, high frequency words help students to monitor their reading. At times, beginning readers point to a word, but say something completely different.
For slightly more advanced readers, increasing sight words improves fluency, particularly reading rate and phrasing. When students know words automatically, they are more likely to read the words quickly and in meaning-based phrases. Reading words automatically can also allow more mental energy to be devoted to expression, the role of punctuation, comprehension, and solving unknown words. Another reason for teaching high frequency words, is that well-known words can help readers solve new words.
Initially, you will want to start with words that your students are seeing over and over, in multiple settings. Even though they are not high frequency words, you might start with the names of the students in your class.
Names are powerful words for young readers. Your students will be very engaged as you work with their names. To select actual high frequency words, think about words that appear often in your classroom instruction. This poem is part of the dramatic play school center — but any shared reading poem will work. In this poem students can practice words such as: up, I, you. Your students will learn partially known words faster than unknown words they already know something about that word.
That will help them learn these words more rapidly and feel successful. They can also make picture cards with illustrations on one side and sight words on the other. Use multisensory techniques like tracing sight words in sand or shaving cream. See what helps kids with dyslexia learn sight words.
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