Monthly Teaching Tip: Making proper use of Sight Words!
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Monthly Teaching Tip: Making proper use of Sight Words!
These days, just about any word can be called a Sight Word. All you have to do is learn it by sight and, according to many teachers, it only needs to be a frequently used word. Using that standard, just about any word in any children’s book will qualify. But words like dog and cat are decodable.
The student must already memorize all the letters and sounds — as well as all the words that are not decodable. Being forced to memorize more things only makes learning to read even more difficult.
What if the student didn’t have to memorize decodable words? The student would spend less time memorizing so-called sight words and they could read independently sooner!
