Teaching sight words –non decodable words
Learning sight words is important for many reasons. This page discusses two reasons that have to do with words that are difficult for children to sound out.
So how do we help children build fluency with reading?
- Some words are especially important to learn by sight because they do not follow the regular phonics patterns. These are called non-decodable words.
- For example: through or said
- There are many different phonics patterns, and children should eventually learn all of them. However there are many words that are used frequently that children need to know early in the reading process even if they haven’t yet learned that specific phonics rule. These words can be taught by sight.
- For example: what or down
Coming Soon:
Our level one sightword kit introduces and practices 27 high frequency words. Available spring of 2010
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