The most important gift you can give your child before entering kindergarten is reading aloud to your child everyday. We guarantee it will be worth more than any gift that money can buy!
click on the buttons on the left to find on-line readers: Below are some other suggestions that may help foster your child's early literacy. In addition, we have pinned many great ideas on our alphabet and reading boards! Click on the Pintrest tab to check out the pins:) Learn to identify the letters of the alphabet both upper and lowercase Begin to learn to learn letter sounds Pretend to read books by reading the pictures Try to read every day signs, words, etc. in their environment(i.e. McDonalds, Target, Mobil, etc.) Have fun trying to rhyme words Blends sounds into words Find simple sight words in familiar books Describes characters’ actions and feelings in a story Relates stories to personal experiences Puts events of a story in order We have included a definition of sight words and the downloads for each list. Please do not feel your child needs to learn these before kindergarten. We just wanted to explain their importance and the meaning of "sight words". We will be working on these in kindergarten. |
Kindergarten Sight Words
Below you will find files that contain Dolch Preprimer and Primer Sight Word Flashcards. I have also included an explanation of "Dolch Sight Words" and the complete list. The information below was directly copied from the following sight: http://www.dolchsightwords.org. The site is just one of many sites to find activities, games, ideas etc. The Dolch Word List is a list of commonly used English words that was originally compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD and published in his 1948book, "Problems in Reading". Edward Dolch compiled this list based on children's books of the period, and selected 220 "service words" which children need to recognize in order to achieve reading fluency. Dolch excluded nouns from his main list, but did compile a separate 95-word list of nouns.Many of the 220 words in the Dolch list, can not be "sounded out", and hence must be learned by sight. Hence the list is often referred to as "Dolch Sight Word List", and the words on it, as "Dolch Sight Words". The Dolch word list is often used in various educational activities to teach reading, including teachers teaching their students, and parents teaching their children. Additionally, although the Dolch word listwas originally devised in the context of teaching English-speaking children to read, it has also subsequently become popular in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). |
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