As a part of our literacy program, your child will be learning sight words. Sight words are words that children encounter frequently in print. These are also words that children use frequently in writing. Learning these words by “sight” will assist your child in becoming a stronger reader and writer.
To help your child learn these words, please create flashcards at home. Start by sorting the words into four groups: words I can read, words I can spell, words I can read and spell, words I need to learn. I encourage you to practice these words at home. Try setting goals: How many new words each week would your child like to learn to read and/or spell? To help your child practice, try these quick tips:
-Make a second set of flashcards and take them with you when you go places with your child. Practice them in line at the grocery store, on trips, and other places where you have a few minutes!
-Let your child select a handful of sight word cards at random, then find the same words around your house—for example, on packages of food or in newspaper headlines.
-Play hide and seek sight words. Hide ten cards. Let your child find them and then read them to you.
Below is a list of Kindergarten through second grades trick words.