Beginning to ReadWord family and sight word printables and activities for kindergarten and grade 1 reading
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Beginning to Read Word family and sight word printables and activities for kindergarten and grade 1 reading |
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Sight Words Dominoes Word Family Pictures All Printables from Newsletters
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For all readers word recognition is accomplished through
The goal of reading instruction is to give readers the skills they need to decode unfamiliar words and to turn most words into sight words. A reader with a large sight word vocabulary is able to read more rapidly and more fluently than one whose sight word vocabulary is small. It only makes sense that a reader who is able to ‘instantly’ recognize and understand the words he reads, will be faster and more fluent than a reader who must often pause in order to decode unfamiliar words. On this page you will find links to the most frequently occurring sight words. I have organized the sight words in groups of ten (per page) and a total of sixty words per link (#1-6, 7-12, 13-18 & 19-24). The lists can be printed and used in various ways. Beginning readers should attempt only a few new sight words at a time – certainly no more than ten. Fewer would be even better. There are many ways to make learning sight words fun. Playing a memory game or bingo, for example. I often refer to Sight Words as ‘Zip Words’ – we want to be able to read these words in a ‘flash!’ We should know them whether we’re ‘inside, outside, or upside down.’ These are not words to ‘sound out’ – they occur much too often and are not necessarily phonetic (i.e. ‘the’ does not sound anything like /t/+/h/+/e/). In addition to the Sight Word lists, you will also find Sight Word Dominoes (#1-3, 4-6 & 7-9) and practice sentences. Some of the practice sentences have blanks where you or your child fills in words or pictures. Early on, I would ask your child how she might like the sentence to end. Then, I would draw a picture or print the word. Usually, your child will be able to remember the word they chose – so, even a very tough, multi-syllable word is fine. Sometime, your child may ask if she can ‘fill in the blank.’ Boy, that sounds like a great idea! With all this discussion about Sight Words, we do not want to overlook phonics and the role it plays in decoding unfamiliar words and also in learning to spell. I will add more information about phonics in the future. In the meantime, I have provided a link to ten short vowel ‘flip books’. Here, you will find two word families for each vowel: ___an, ___at, ___,ed, ___ell, ___ick, ___ing, ___op, ___ot, ___ug, and ___uck Once your child discovers that letters can be put together to make words, it can be magical for him to realize that changing just one letter will produce a word with an altogether different meaning. Also, once you know the sound that /an/ makes, you can read seven or eight words by switching the beginning sound. This is a terrific way to bolster your child’s confidence – she didn’t just read one new word, she read eight! Note: In the flip books, the consonants are in black, vowels are in red. This is not uncommon and lays the groundwork for learning about long and short vowels.
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