Sight words are common words that kids recognize instantly without sounding them out. Recognizing words by sight helps kids become faster, more fluent readers. Plan daily practice of reading sight words will help them to read the words without decoding.
- Sight words will be extremely difficult because words are learned by their shape or “picture”, not by the individual letters or word patterns.
- Why should sight words be taught?
It’s critical to teach students to memorize sight words as a whole so that they can recognize them immediately (within 3 seconds) without having to use any strategies to decode them. … And teaching sight words not only helps students read more fluently, it helps them write more efficiently too.
Reading of sight words will help them to develop.
Sight words are confidence builders. …
- Sight words free up a child’s energy to tackle more challenging words.
- Sight words provide clues to the meaning of a sentence.
- Best way to teach sight words
- Look for them in books. Draw a child’s attention to a word by looking for it in children’s books.
- Hang them around the classroom.
- Help children use them.
- Re-visit them regularly.