My kids were seeing their sight words everywhere! They kept pointing them out in all the books they were reading. This was huge! That meant that on average my class knew how to spell at least 60% of those 100 sight words. Well, around December most of my class was scoring 60% and above on their tests. But I decided to stick with it till the December and then re-evaluate. I will admit that around November last year, I was really nervous and worried that I had made a mistake. We had lots of talks about how this is going to be difficult but that at the end of the year they would learn all their sight words. Almost the entire class failed the tests. The kids get really excited when a word they know comes up.Īt first it was kind of scary. The words are written on popsicle sticks and I select the words during the actual test. I sent out a letter and let parents know that we would be focussing on learning how to write our sight words and that would help their child become better readers and writers! Parents were extremely accepting and excited about this idea! Instead of doing traditional spelling tests, I would select 10 words at random from the 100 sight words. I planned on doing this with parent support at home. I was going to get my kids to learn how to write the first 100 Fry’s words in first grade. It wasn’t until last year when I moved down to first grade from second grade, that I began to explore how I could use what I learned to help get my kids reading and ready for second grade. We weren’t totally convinced about the approach. Long ago our school received training from “From L-to-J” and we began using it with sight words.
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