Strategies for teaching sight words9/17/2023 Now, first of all, there's nothing wrong with referring to the Dolch and Fry sight word lists. Misconception number two, we should use the Dolch grade level sight word lists as a guide when choosing words to teach our students. They are not necessarily phonically irregular words. Sight words are words that students know automatically. Having definitions straight is always important as we move forward,so I wanted to start with that one. A high frequency word can be regular as in "and," or it can be irregular as in "the." The goal is to help our students turn these high frequency words into their own personal sight words, words that they can recognize instantly - preferably within a second. Some people use the terms, "sight words" and "high frequency words" interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.Ī high frequency word is one of the words that is most commonly used in the English language. He says that "a sight word is a word that is instantly and effortlessly recalled from memory, regardless of whether it is phonically regular or irregular." A sight word vocabulary refers to the pool of words a student can effortlessly recognize. It's really good to refer to David Kilpatrick's definition. Reading researchers have a different definition of sight words. Sight words can certainly be irregular, but the definition of sight words is not "words kids can't sound out." Many people still define sight words this way, as words that kids cannot sound out, words they have to simply memorize, but this definition is actually not correct. For example, the word "the" would be a sight word. The first misconception that people have about sight words is that they are words that cannot be sounded out. Hello! Anna Geiger here from The Measured Mom, and I'm so glad to welcome you to another Triple R Teaching podcast episode! Today, we're going to talk about sight words, specifically four common misconceptions about sight words.
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