100 Sight Words, Post
100 Sight Words
Often called high frequency words
The First 100 Sight Words for Prep and Grade 1 is the quick route to reading. It does not change the importance of phonics in early literacy.
The purpose of Sight Word Lists for early primary (elementary) school is for quick recognition. These words are frequently occurring in texts. Twenty to 40 could be learned by the end of Prep and the rest towards the end of Grade 1. There’s no special advantage to having pictures on sight words. So making them by hand gives a great result for the child — and is cheap and easy to do.
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The first task:
~~Teach children the alphabet and the letter-sound match. Do this with flash cards.
~~One lower case letter per card, and printed carefully and written large.
~~This works well for numbers and simple equations as well.
Links: Flash Cards – How To Make, Post, Using Flash Cards, Post, “Sight Words – Extra” Prep, Grade 1 “In My House” Literacy Prep, Grade 1, “Word Lists–Phonics” Prep to Grade 2, “Sight Words – Extra” Prep, Grade 1
Make these 100 Words into flash cards. This moves children into reading texts. They learn spelling patterns in a short timeframe.
Fast-Track Your Child:
>>In the first 100 Sight Words, 20% have irregular spelling.
>>The rest of them follow any one of 22 spelling rules in English.
>>Children are half-way to knowing these rules when they know the Sight Words.
Same spelling pattern for several words = A Spelling Rule : Many believe that the word put has irregular spelling. But in the UK, put and but are pronounced alike in many parts of the country. Spelling rules are much older and are more fixed while our way of speaking has changed.
When teachers refer to a spelling rule or spelling pattern, it means there are groups of words that follow the same pattern. This accounts for the mis-match with some words. ‘Put’ and ‘but’ are good examples.
Examples of rules,
~~find, rind, pint and kind are one word family, and
~~mint, hint, kink and wind are another.
The 22 spelling rules are not all taught in Prep and Grade 1. They are taught progressively to the end of Grade 2, and beyond, along with many others.