KINDERGARTEN

 Sight Words

What Are Sight Words?

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Children are taught how to read by learning to recognize symbols (letters and groups of letters) and associating them with sounds (phonemes).  Students can then sound out words and have a strategy to figure out unfamiliar words that they come across – phonics!

 

However, alongside this approach children also learn to memorize certain words to facilitate their fluency as a reader. These are called sight words.  Students memorize these words for a variety of reasons:

 

-they are irregular – they don’t follow phonics rules – and cannot be sounded out (of, the, was)

-they commonly occur in books (he, to, are, that, have) so knowing them instantly will...

     -save a child time when reading by not having to “figure out” frequently occurring words

     -allow a child to read a significant % of books/texts by knowing only a handful of words

 

These are the sight words that your child is expected to learn in kindergarten:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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