High-Frequency Words…or Sight Words
Sight Word Work
(depending on your generation..) 🙂
Back in the “OLDEN DAYS” when I became a teacher…
( um…Let’s just say in the late 80’s..)
I was taught to work on HFW (High-Frequency Words) DAILY!
These are the words my students would see in their daily reading.
Some can be “sounded out” and some JUST HAVE TO BE MEMORIZED!
In order to memorize a word…
a student MUST work with it at least 30 times!
WHAT???!!!!
Each word??? YEP!
So we do…DAILY!
Now the list of grade level high-frequency words is ever changing.
You can see FRY WORD LISTS, DOLCH word lists, CURRICULUM word lists…
BUT the main focus is NOT on the LIST,
BUT WHAT YOU DO WITH IT!
Again…to embed a word into a first grader’s BRAIN…
they must work with it at least 30 times!
(Some kids more..some kids less)
HOW??
READ…WRITE…SPEAK
Say it with me, “READ, WRITE, SPEAK”
OK. Now the work begins. PINTEREST!
These samples came from Pinterest..
MANY, MANY, MANY boards to help YOU
create a class list &
MANY, MANY, MANY
different activities to help your kids
WORK WITH HFW!
They need to practice DAILY!
I myself, am a KINESTHETIC learner…HANDS-ON!
NOT a SUPER fan of worksheets.
( Yes..we do some..I AM ONLY HUMAN!)
Thank You PINTEREST!
And so you see…Practice..practice..practice..
This year my class is a One-to-one classroom with ipads!
(THANK YOU TO WHOEVER DREAMED OF THIS!)
My newest LOVE is an app called
“SHOW ME!”
It’s an individual interactive whiteboard!
We play word games, I SPY, word ladders, etc. each on their own tablet…
and then SWISH!
CLEAR ALL…and we start again!
We do daily practice for about 10 minutes.
That’s about ALL they need in a “chunk” of time 10-15 minutes.
Later in the day…they each have individual word rings.
I have sets available in my store or you can search TPT for others.
Here’s a sampling…
Roll, Read, Color
Available at:
1stgradefireworks TpT Store
And so…
HI HO
HI HO
It’s OFF to Sight Words
WE GO!
Enjoy! 🙂
I work with the dolch words daily by making them part of my calendar – the special helper chooses the number of the day to read that many words, so six words on the 6th of the month. I also combine this with sending home sight word books. This is the first year I’ve done the sight word books and all of my students know all of the 220 dolch words so I am super happy!