Looking for ways to help your child become a strong confident reader? Teaching sight words is a great step on that path. Recognizing words by sight, without having to sound them out, allows children to be faster more fluent readers.
Sight words are words that are commonly used and recognized without sounding them out. Being able to recognize these words quickly and accurately allows children to read with more speed and accuracy. This helps build their confidence as they can recognize words quickly, and move on to more complex words and phrases. It also helps them comprehend what they are reading, as they can focus on the meaning of sentences rather than sounding out each word. Having a strong foundation of sight words is essential for children to become strong, confident readers.
Here are 10 simple and easy things to do to teach children sightwords:
1. Read stories and books that focus on sight words. Point to the words and pictures and have your child say the word with you. As your child becomes more familiar with the words make it a race to see who can say the word first. Find other places where the words are written and point them out–signs, posters billboards, etc. familiar have your child say the word with you
2. Use flashcards to practice sight words.
3. Create fun worksheets using sight words.
4. Play games with sight words, such as Bingo or Matching. 5
. Have children color sightword images and trace the word.
6. Use magnetic letters to help children learn sight words.
7. Sing songs that use sight words.
8. Incorporate sight words into everyday activities.
9. Have children trace sight words with their finger.
10. Break longer words into smaller chunks to help children learn them.
Learning sightwords helps children to quickly recognize common words in text. Knowing these words helps children to read more fluently, as they are more likely to recognize the words when they see them. When children are able to recognize sightwords quickly and accurately, it allows them to focus more on the context of the text, which helps them to understand what they are reading. This in turn leads to improved reading comprehension and strong confident readers.