Dolch Sight Words

[abcwritestartread]

Do not waste brain real estate on sight words, teach your kids to read with a direct. systematic explicit phonetic reafing program, I use Sing, Spell, Read & Write.

[pacrapacma]

My daughter learned sight words easily. She used beginning sounds and guessed at hard words. She thought she was a good reader until the middle of first grade. The books got harder and she couldn't remember all the words. This type of sight word learning made my daughter ignore letters. I created free "sigIht" word flashcards with tips to sound them out to print on the back and shared them on my Beginnng Reading Help blog.

[suenelson1024]

This is ONLY my opinion, BUT less talking and promoting how smart her child is and offer the words as a help to others, which is it?

[rtothemutha]

American citizen. End illiteracy in YOUR familiy.

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[MeaQuidemCancer]

This system left my cousin illiterate. He's in 3rd grade. Can't read for his life. They need to fix this corrupt system they call "school".

[belizebettybop]

Hey I totally agree with what your saying and would love to know where can i get a copy of those DVD's. My daughter is struggling to learning them but the problem is she is a more visual learner. I was trying to see i i can get videos to help her here on youtube and i found you.

[RealKid2020]

The Dolch Sight Words DVDs are available at Kid2020.com.

[REECEE1913]

smart girl!

[RealKid2020]

Do a little more investigating and you'll find this method to be very effective for teaching the words that do not follow the typical rules of phonetics.

[Saechem]

The Dolch sight words were very effective.

My son is now an accelerated reader. Now we need to work on math!

[DeanVQuinn]

can not find this site?

[johnLSU]

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LOL, I bet you guys can read the sentence above easily just because the mind knows but we all know that most of these words are misspelled, just saying.

[cathye661]

Many of these words are considered non-decodable words, and therefore do not follow conventional phonetic rules (i.e. what, is, etc). Sounding out these words would not be an effective strategy, so these words become sight words. Because these words are also referred to as high frequency words, they should be read automatically. Early readers should be taught the difference between words

that can be decoded using their knowledge of phonics, and those words that should be recognized by sight.

[1ca1lammons]

Wow! These videos are such a great idea. I have been working on the Dolch sight list with my daughter. This is much more exciting compared to flash cards only. Thank you so much kid2020!

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

This video seemed to call for a rebuttal, so I created No More Sight Words, now on YouTube.

[RealKid2020]

I appreciate your concern and video rebuttal. I hope that all parents, teachers and voters will, too. These videos were created to help children learn the words that are required of them in public schools. Public schools are under the 'No Child Left Behind Act' and face the fear of loosing their funding unless they comply with the curriculum. Perhaps your efforts would be more effective addressing government acts that have questionable results.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Children with excellent memories can read, in some sense, with sight words. Children with ordinary memories are doomed. They'll learn maybe 500 or 1000 words; they'll be classified as functional illiterates.

But even in Anna's case, can she recognize all those words in upper case, weird faces, and handwriting? What does she do with a strange word? Why not just teach her to read? Rudolph Flesch explained the nightmare of sight words in 1955! Johnny couldn't read because of sight words.

[RealKid2020]

I share the some of the concerns presented by Mr.DeitrickPrice which is why these DVDs were developed. My daughter struggled with the memorization of the required words. She first learned the phonics (see my other video clips:The Letters). My 5yr old is reading very efficiently at a 3rd grade level, sounding out complex words in various fonts & cases. This approach helps children with ordinary memories. As we learn to read, we do not continue to sound out each word; we begin to recognize words.

[Sfireblue]

What will Anna be do once she's in first grade? She'd be better off learning at home or going to private school than be in a public school where she cannot move ahead which is the sad reality for many bright kids under No Child Left Behind!

[morefieldr]

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