Resources include sets of story books, posters and cards to mount on classroom walls, and sets of flash cards to help students
master sight words, letters, and their sounds.
When I saw her remembering to cover her mouth when she coughed or
mastering her sight words, I felt what any parent would feel: Super proud.
A child is considered to have
mastered the sight words in this activity when she can consistently recognize and read all the word cards in her hand, with confidence and without any noticeable hesitation.
Not exact matches
People confuse truth with reality, and reduce what can belong only to the order of the
word (where of necessity they are responsible) to the order of
sight (where they reign as
masters).
He also has
mastered all the
sight words for the entire year!
With plenty of repetition and context clues, students will quickly
master early
sight words.
In other
words, good readers will often tend to
master more
sight words as a result of their general vocabulary knowledge applied during reading, which can lead to the conclusion that a strong emphasis on teaching
sight words is well placed.
As the child's
sight words vocabulary expands, you should start to expand your card set with new
words and gradually remove the
words that have been
mastered and no longer need intensive repetition.
Having
mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a good base of
sight words, many pupils begin to feel the flow of good reading, and eventually, the process becomes second nature.
Tutors help students
master «
sight words,» which are the
words most commonly used in the English language.
An experienced 2nd grade teacher knows the most difficult
sight words to
master, can anticipate which students will have problems with those
sight words, and quickly diagnose a problem and design an intervention.
After students have
mastered reading their high frequency
sight words, they should also be able to spell these
words correctly in their own writing.
Smarty Ants Reading World provides over ninety unique learning paths to guide emergent readers from developing phonological awareness to
mastering phonics and
sight -
word fluency.