Sight Word Activities

Word Walls
High Frequency Words that students just need to know: like "The"
Ideas for teaching "the" to students struggling to remember:

• Illustrate the word "the"
• put it on the wall
• Rainbow write it, use favorite colors to trace the letters

109 words are 50% of our text
important because off the bat they know how to read most of text
i.e.--the, because

Word Wall

• Word walls should be in alphabetic order

• Star next to word with a star is a word that you can transfer to another word the word "like" Teach high frequency words with phonics focus on pattern then students can refer to the word wall to help match new words to familiar sounds. For instance the word like on the wall might help a student spell hike.

• "Is there a word on the wall that would help you spell hike?"
• Make a word wall in the beginning of their names and then start adding high frequency words
• Use 5 words a week, a word a day for 1st grade
  
• Once a word is on the word wall the students need to spell it correctly

In this way reading, writing, spelling are integrated. At the same time as Phonics, whole language helps attack from two angles at the same time as working on sounds and spelling


Secret word of the day: always in plain sight, couldn't tell when they found it
tape the new word to the ceiling, on a orange paper on the rug
"Has anybody found the secret word? Point to the word?"
Ask them to read the word to get out to recess, start with students that know the word
use the word frequently

Clapping and Chanting
Revisit the word later by clapping and chanting
clap each letter "b" "e" "c" "a" "u" "s" "e" repeat three or five times
then have the students write it.