Since research has been unable to prove that paper/pencil homework improves student performance for young children, we are asking that for your kindergartener's daily homework you simply read with or to your child for at least 15-20 minutes each night and discuss the story or text. From time to time, we may send home class work that your child was unable to complete at school or some math sheets that the district provides, but please spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success.
*Eat dinner as a family
*Read together
*PLAY
*Talk about your day
*Go to bed early
How to support your child as a beginning reader.
How to find books that your child is ready to read.
Sight words are the words a child can already recognize by sight without using any specific strategies. Some of the words cannot be decoded using conventional strategies so memorizing them until they are known by memory with automaticity is beneficial. The wonderful thing about these words being so common is that children learn them easily with repetition because they are usually words that they already have in their everyday vocabulary. **Use the link to the right for a document with 25 fun ways to practice learning sight words at home.