Sight Words

  It’s Day 11 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Wednesdays during this series we are focusing on vocabulary and/or sight words. We have done TONS of sight words activities over the years (mostly…

  Teaching sight words is one component of well-balanced literacy instruction. For many decades, we see a constant swing back in forth in the primary methods for reading instruction. On one end of the pendulum, we taught phonics as the…

Sight Words are an important component to a balanced approach to literacy. Learning to recognize sight words (the most commonly used words in print) helps children to become more fluent readers. These sight word activities for kids help make the…

  Learning sight words is an important component of a balanced approach to literacy. Although recognizing sight words alone does not necessarily mean a child is “reading”, it certainly helps with his/her reading fluency (the speed, accuracy, and proper inflection…