The Common Core reading foundational standard (RF3) requires students to recognize words by sight. The translation of this standard has been that students need direct instruction on the Dolch sight words. In response, many districts are setting sight word goals at higher and higher levels. The most common measure is the Dolch 220 sight word list. Teachers everywhere have long… Read more →
Are you drilling your students everyday on sight words? You use the flashcards, you painted the words on the wall of your classroom, you sent home the sight words in a little baggie? The classroom television plays that sight word PowerPoint each morning? You have an incentive chart on the wall to show how many words each student knows? You… Read more →
While I am no longer an elementary school teacher, I do appreciate all things literacy based for any age range. A wonderful tool that helps to teach reading for elementary school students is Christopher Thorne’s site, Mr. Thorne Does Phonics. This site includes numerous engaging phonics videos! The site focuses on phoneme segmentation, divided into six different segments. The general… Read more →
