Sight Words are the most common words your child will read. Incorporating sight words into your home will help your new reader.
Sight Words are usually short little words like: at, it, the, of, and, is, saw, when. Many of them can’t be sounded out, that’s why they’re called Sight words. (get it? sight? I didn’t at first, that’s why I’m saying it!!)
The general rule of thumb for new readers is: Once a new reader can read 100 sight words they can start ready to tackle harder words. They can breeze through the sight words and tackle sounding out the harder words.
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| Yes – this hangs right in my kitchen! Close to the kitchen table where all work occurs. |
Sight Words provide an excellent base for reading at an early age. Sight word practice is essential for successful reading and will give your preschooler or kindergartener a jump on reading for the upcoming school year. Once your child knows their Sight Words, they can spend time using reading strategies on the unknown words.
Notes on our Poster:
- The colors specify certain levels from my son’s Kindergarten class. Once they earned one color set, they could move onto the next. If you passed a level, you were also held responsible for spelling them correctly – genius!
- The font used here is D’Nealian, the same type of manuscript they encourage in our county schools.
- I hand wrote other words on the chart that were used regularly (ones that I was often asked to spell).
- Sight Words can also be called Dolch Words if you’re searching for them. The Mrs. Perkins site offers the printable lists of the top 220 sight words.
- If you have preschoolers, make lists that are important to them: colors, friends, family, toy names
Thanks for the tip on the font to use. It is sometimes hard to find one with a and g they can read.