The 1st–and most essential–step in teaching sight words. Discover how the right first step can make or break many readers achievement!
Just 1 simple check can ensure ALL of your students learn sight words well…and more rapidly.
Access to things we discussed in the video:
What do you think about these non-mainstream claims? Please share your thoughts in the comments below!
WIll this be recorded? I would love to see this but am in Australia and will be at work! Have some students struggling with this at the moment 🙁
Yes! It’ll be here in my Fb page immediately afterwards.
Yay thanks 🙂
Thank you – I’m in Australia too and was wondering the same thing ! Hoping to help some students in my prep grade
Thanks Pam! Hope the recording helps. ?
Same here. Am from the Philippines. Have some students struggling with their reading.
This should help Evelyn. Keep an eye out for the recoding on this Facebook page when it’s a reasonable hour!
Melody from San Antonio!
Hello from South Georgia
Hi good night
The books can you list books and authors at the end please
Good request Kerlene! Here are some of my favs that I mentioned:
Why Our Children Can’t Read And What We Can Do About It by Dianne McGuinness
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children by the National Research Council
National Reading Panel report
Progress in Understanding Reading by Keith Stanovich
Developing Early Literacy Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
[The 3 national reports above are from the U.S.]
Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So May Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg, 2017, (especially chapters 4 on)
Thanks alot
Just finished that book!
Good read! And so eye opening!
Hello from TN
Hello from northern Maine
Hello from VT
Kindergarten in ATM required to teach 100 sight words
Yes on high frequency words. 88 for K! I’m a K-2 interventionist.
sounds about right–50% from the basal and an additional set from the district.
In Tn
First 100 Fry Words for first graders
25 a quarter
Switch It
As a tutor it is difficult because they come every week with a new list of sight words and I am just giving them the foundations with switch it and read it.
Thanks for saying that, Dorita. Yes, that’s a system’s problem because. Establishing the foundation is far more important in the early days and months. How are you juggling the competing demands?
I’ve been doing switch it for only a week and I’m amazed at the progress already
Awesome, Michele!
My students love switch it and actually play it during inside recess
That’s the best I’ve heard for Switch It! A fun way of “playing school”!
With 5 struggling first graders ?
Glad you’re here Michele. I know those kids will move up!
Way to go
Paulette Koudelka Romeril
Where is that page located
H Fatima from South Africa.
If you join for a month do you get all the things you just mentioned
Michele, as you learn each new activity in each of the 9 main units, you unlock the next unit with all the materials needed for that activity. Thus, your pace of learning and engaging determines how many resources you unlock in 1 month. Many folks go through the video course and try all the main activities in 1 month’s time.
Thanks Marnie. I’ve been doing whole group switch and am preparing to start smaller group class activities Monday. I have 49 students, 1st graders starting at Step 1 level up to 2nd graders almost ready to move into advanced phonics. Many are have already shown some improvement!
Wow, Danette!! That’s a lot of students. Great to hear that you’re seeing growth and that you’re moving to small groups.
In your academy do you have pre- made word lists for lessons?
Yes, and we’re adding more lists this month
How can we rewatch this video? I only caught the last few minutes and would like to show a colleague
Hello… hello
75 for K 150 for 1st
100 for K and 300 for 1st
40
K = 100, 1st= 300
400 by end of first
100 sight word for first grade and 75 for kindergarten
Northern maine here too!!
Thank you again for your expertise.
That’s kind of you Dianne!
100
100 words
Hello from Australia?
Thank you -that was really interesting. liked the way you presented knowledge in sequential steps
Hello from South Africa. Thank you.
65
100 Prep
I had to leave early last night, had an emergency? but will be watching the replay if it’s available.
Sorry about the emergency. ? here’s the full replay about the first step in teaching sight words. If you were asking about another training, though, please let me know
thank you, this is it. 🙂
Jo Day
Sarah, thank you for sharing!! 🙂
Julie Zuber Susan Lamb Bastidas Valerie Suchomel
Thanks for sharing, Jennifer! 🙂
Write darker on chalkboard please.
Thanks for that help. You’re right!
Taz from england
Welcome Taswar!
Sara
Thanks for sharing, Dennis! 🙂
No
In U.K. It’s 45 but at age 4-5
This is how we teach Phonics in UK from age 4. They have a check age 6 where they read real and nonsense words.
Check out the English document called Letters and Sounds for activities like the one you call switch it. They call full circle because a letter keeps switching until back to original word.
Fun! Those would be harder to create though. ?
Reading Simplified they are all created for you In the letters and sounds document which can be downloaded
Paula, this looks interesting x
Paula, watch this video. This is what I meant!!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi..from Manitoba Canada…very interesting.
Thanks for tuning in Lisa! 🙂
Love the glitter visual! The Reading Simplified Academy’s activities have helped my 6-year-old grow in reading ability by leaps and bounds. His K curriculum required 45 sight words and now his 1st grade curriculum requires 66. He wouldn’t be able to handle that amount of sight words without the sound based decoding instruction I’ve given him through my participation in the RSA.
I’m so thankful for this Jennifer!!! ? Congrats to your son!
Wow, what you are saying makes so much sense to me Dr Marnie. I have been watching your videos and have learnt so much re switch it. Your explanation in this video re establishing sound letter recognition skills before trying to teach sight vocabulary during guided reading, has been an aha moment for me. I understand why the children who come to me for intervention and support, continue to struggle no matter what I do to help them try to remember the words that they are required to recognize on the lists that have been drawn up for them. Thank you for the opportunity of sharing your expertise with us via Facebook.
I’m SO glad to hear you articulate that point so well Heather! It’s SUCH a big problem in many English speaking countries. And such a simple fix!