Sight Word 60 works with any sight word list. What’s important to remember is to teach multiple strategies and provide all the tools to read and write. Teaching automaticity with sight words isn’t bad. Since Sight Word 60 gives you more than that we’re providing the necessary practice so that the words can be orthographically mapped into students’ memory. Students need to decode a word 1-8 times according to research. This is so important because the research tells us that decoding is the most efficient way to build automaticity. One strategy for teaching sight words that has been the focus of a number of studies is to pair vocabulary words with corresponding pictures to help children form an association between the written word and its meaning (Elliott & Zhang, 1998). YES! Decoding sight words is possible and should be used along with automaticity. Plus students also get practice decoding the words so they’re getting multiple tools and strategies for being good readers. A few high-impact, engaging minutes to teach sight words. The premise of Sight Word 60 is that in the course of a school week, 5 days, students get more than 60 exposures to each sight word and that happens in just a few minutes each day. What are the 5 components of sight words 1. And thus was born Sight Word 60 and yes, Sight Word 60 IS aligned to the science of reading. I knew I was failing my students and wanted to fix it. The kids were just along for the ride! My students always did ok and learned some words but they didn’t retain the words well and I just knew there was a better way. We did all kinds of random things and we never had a direction and plan for teaching sight words. A lot of the words on lists of sight words are not even remotely irregular anyway, and could easily be taught via a sounding-out strategy. Often we stick with visual and auditory ways of teaching sight words- listen to how this word is spelled, look at the board and see it written, and then write. So, you see, what had happened was, I stunk at teaching sight words.
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