Monday: I ntroduce word 1, talk about the letters in the word, how to say it, spell it, and identify it with a foldable book they can take home to their parents to show them the new word. Here’s a little snapshot of what it looks like:Ģ sight words per week, introduced in small groups during literacy centers, starting with List 1 I created 7 lists, of 9 kindergarten sight words each, and made it a schedule for the week, which helps the students and parents tremendously since they know what to expect. ![]() If they still need time to learn letters and sounds, I’d focus on that first!) (I would make sure your students have a good understanding of letter identification before moving on to sight words. I started by choosing the words I wanted to use and ordering them from the least difficult to the most difficult, while still making sure they were appropriate for kindergarten. ![]() After seeing how much my students improved, I wanted to share it with all the other struggling kindergarten teachers out there! Let’s get to it! I Googled so many sight word lists and ideas and finally created a system that worked for me and my class. (hello first year teacher problems!)įast forward to my third year of teaching, I knew I had to fix something. ![]() Every time I gave a sight word assessment, I panicked because I had no clue if I was “doing it right”. We didn’t really have a way to “teach” the students sight words, it was just a list of words my kids were expected to know by the end of the year. When I first started teaching kindergarten, I remember sight words were a beast I was not ready to tackle.
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