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Sight Words
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Posted 2 months ago When is the best time to intorduce the "sight words" to 5 year old students?
Thanks Bunches!
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| Posted 2 months ago I would say that it is never to early to start. A word wall is a great way to start introducing sight words to students. Label everything in your room for your students. Introduce early and practice often :) |
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| Posted 2 months ago ktenkely says ...
I agree. It is never too early and word walls are great. The kids can even make their own desk word wall made out of an oaktag folder. Using 2-4sheets of paper (depending on how many sides you want to use on the folder) you could print out a table with the alphabet letters to the left and 3-4 boxes next to each letter. Then glue the pages on the folder. When you teach the kids a new word have them write the word in their folder. They can recite each word to each other as a warm-up everyday. I also use another desk word wall for math vocabulary words. This helps build their reading skills for reading math sheets independently. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I have a letter wall in my room and I teach per kinder. I have vocabulary words, and the name of the children in my class. All the words in my letter wall have the word and a picture of what the word is. for example car the a picture of a car. This works well with my children, they learn and recognize their classmates name and some other words. you can take a look at my profile and look at the pictures and you can see my letter wall. |
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| Posted 2 months ago Speaking of sight words, I have a friend who realized his 4.5-year-old son was starting to read when they were walking down the street and came across some words scrawled on the gate of a store and the little boy turned to his dad and said "What does f**k mean?" "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 2 months ago Deven says ...
A learning and teachable moment for all. Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted 2 months ago Thank you to all who posted in this thread. I have made some sight words early on but was kinda hesitant to teach it to my students (ages4-5) because they hardly recognise the consonants. I thought it would be easier for them to learn if i introduce the consonants first before i introduce the sight words, but based on your replies ( and I trust you guys are more experienced than I am) I guess I should introduce the SW soon. Thank you so much. I downloaded sight words from the net. Can you suggest a good site where I can get more for free?
Checha |
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| Posted 2 months ago The most popular list of sight words is the Dolch List. Here is a website I found: http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/preschool.htm I hope this is what you are looking for :)
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| Posted 2 months ago Thanks for the web site i really liked it. aprilmorrison says ...
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| Posted 2 months ago Thanks..i will look into that site soon as i find time. Exam week for my students next week, so i am busy as a bee. :) |
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| Posted 29 days ago There is another site I found, www.kid2020.com , they seem to work a lot with sight words. |
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| Posted 29 days ago Checha_Natch says ...
Exam week? For five year olds? What kind of exams do you give five year olds that take a week? "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 28 days ago Deven says ...
Who can cut with scissors? How to make a line? Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted 28 days ago That takes a week? "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 18 days ago
Hi Guys.. Yes we give exams to nursery students. I am surprised that you are surprised. Does that mean you do not give exams to your Nursery students? I teach reading and languange btw, so my exam includes identification of the alphabet (vowels only), initial sound of word s, sound of animals, which things go together, sequencing of events. In the languange exam , it included identification of family members, naming parts of the house, use of is and are and he and she. My co teacher teaches science, social studies and math. We give one exam/subject a day, so it should take us 5 days to complete the exams. :) cheers
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| Posted 18 days ago To put it mildly, I am shocked. Do your students get any time to play with so crowded a curriculum? Admittedly, I went to nursery school fifty years ago and I realize that things have changed, but, what you are describing sounds like it could be counter-productive. Plesse educate me; if the language arts exam includes family members and parts of the house, what are the topics of the social studies? "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 15 days ago HI Deven, Social Studies exam for the 1st grading included national symbols like, national tree, flag, animal, game, flower, bird etc. It also included the physical identification of a Filipino like, black hair, black-brown eyes, brown hair etc. You might wanna ask what topics were included in the Science exam so i might just as well tell you (being pro active here..hehe)..it included the 5 senses, touch, smell etc. and the organ that goes with it. Since our students do not read yet. We the teachers read the exam for them and they choose the answers in their papers. It's not really that complicated. We incorporate games in our lessons so I guess they have ample time to play aside from one day Play Day which happens every Friday. Can I ask how you teach your nursery students? I really wanna hear what you have to say about how we teach our students. This is my 1st year in teaching. I would welcome every suggestions you guys are gonna share with me.
Cheers!
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| Posted 15 days ago I don't teach nursery students. I teach middle school special education students. I went to nursery school, admittedly in the dark ages, but I remember it being much, much less academic and more 'learning through play' oriented. It worked for me. I don't know enough about early childhood education to say whether what you are doing is good or bad, but I don't think I would want my child to be in your school. I recommend the book "The Conspiracy Against Childhood," by the late Eda LeShan. The book is over 40 years old now, but I think its basic argrument that we are overloading very young children with too much academic pressure is particularly important for you to read. It is available used from Amazon.com (do they operate in The Philipines?) for $1.99 US. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 14 days ago Thanks for the info abt the book Deven. I will ask my stepdaughter to look for that book there in U.S. because I'm not sure if we have them here. I hope other pre school teachers would be able to read this and give me an idea as to how teachers teach there, what methods they use and topics they discuss ( if there's any). As for us here in the Philippines, we are only teaching what our Department of Education has approved for us to teach. In my case, i rely mostly on the textbook assigned to our students. I research and read a lot in the net on the side too, reason why i signed up in here. Thanks.
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| Posted 14 days ago Hi Checha_Natch! I have a great resource for teaching writing from the very beginning. It's called Handwriting Without Tears and developmentally appropriate for Pre-K up to 5th grade (cursive). Check it out, http://www.hwtears.com/ The manipulatives are amazingly simple and work wonders for children. If you have any questions, I will be happy to try to answer them. April
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| Posted 13 days ago You use a textbook for primary students??? |
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| Posted 13 days ago
Hi April!
I have signed up at the site you listed. I am excited to get new ideas from the site. Again Thanks a lot! Yes astricker. we have text books/workbooks for our Nursery students. |
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| Posted 13 days ago Can they read them? Heck, can they lift them? "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 13 days ago Wow. I've been watching this discussion and it just blows my mind. We are talking about Nursery students, right? 4 & 5 year olds? Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted 13 days ago I've seen children as young as a year and a half pick up on simple sight words. The norm is usually around three to five years of age, and I mean simple sight words. |
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| Posted 11 days ago
Yes sanmccaron, 4-5 year olds and 5-6 year old students. they are in nursery and kinder classes.
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| Posted 11 days ago I must have been a reallty slow student. I don't recall ever seeing, much less using, a textbook before I was in second grade, and they were not common then. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone would use a textbook for most subjects. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 11 days ago Deven says ...
I have very little use for the textbook in the topics I know. Textbooks are to afford standarization across different teachers and to provide a crutch to those who do not know their subject. Once again, our Science Dept. is in debate over differing opinions: All four biology teachers must have student mastery of a previously-selected set of chapters by midterm. Selected by teachers who are not the current ones. And god help you if you say you have not read the textbook to a parent! Not reading the text means you don't know the subject? I don't think so. I think that depending on the text means you don't know the subject. Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted 11 days ago HELLO! Kinder Teacher here! I teach 5-6 year olds.
I would refuse to use textbooks and would probably use them in upper grades just to supplement my curriculum; but as for sight words. I have started this month! November is "Popcorn Month" at our school for the kindergarten kids. Popcorn words are words that pop out at you when you're reading.
As we talked about in other forums, pre-school and kindergarten have changed! Kindergarten feels like first grade these days! I taught first grade for 10 years! I feel like I'm doing the same things with these little cuties that I did 10 years ago! IT'S OUT OF NECESSITY! The children are ready!! I can not hold back a group of kids, because of my own views. Kindergarten at one time was about friendships and social interactions. There is a whole new dynamic added to the early childhood world. As I have discussed before, there adds some animosity between veteran teachers that refuse to change and other teachers (like myself) that is flexible and willing to pull from all worlds. While some children benefit greatly from social interaction, basic coloring and cutting; there are MANY past that!!! They are ready for sight words and reading lessons! So my answer...yes, they're ready for sight words. Textbooks?!?! Personally, I wouldn't go that far, but that's just my "silly opinion" as Joel would state.
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| Posted 11 days ago I am not objecting teaching sight words in kindergarten. I just wonder about spending a week doing paper and pencil assessments of such young children. If the teacher can't assess the children by watching them work individually and in groups, listening to them speak and read, and making other observations, then the teacher needs to pay more attention and might need some help. If the administration does not trust teachers to assess students adequately through observation, it needs to be more particular about who they hire and how they train them. I know it seems like centuries since I was in nursery school and kindergarten, but I have watched the HBO series "Kindergarten" over and over (my son's kindergarten class is the one filmed for the series -- he's Jonas) and spoken to the teacher frequently since (she now teaches in the middle school my son was in until June), and I have never heard her mention formal assessments for the kids. And I defy anyone who watches more than a couple of episodes of the show to not be able to write fairly detailed assessments of the abilities of the students merely through observation. Something just occured to me. Perhaps the formal assessments are now required because teachers no longer have the writing ability to produce clear, direct and readable assessment documents. If that;s the problem (and judging from some of the letters and flyers I see sent home, it is), how are these teachers going to teach writing when they can't write.. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
