Dyslexia Help: Sight Words (Cook, T., 2020)

Dyslexia Help; Cook’s Independent Tutoring, Coaching, & Consulting,LLC

Can you build on you child’s strength of knowing sight words to fill in some of their reading gap? Favor?

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When I’m helping your child with their Sound-Word Knowledge & Processing, Can you help them by doing these systematic, explicit, sight word activities (mentioned below)???

Also, For Dyslexia Help: Is your Comprehending BUT struggles with Reading Fluently??? They may need Sight Word Knowledge (ask me about nonsense word knowledge too).

What are Sight Words? Sight words are words which are usually high-frequency that do not fit standard phonetic patterns and must be memorized.

Activity 1- done till 90% mastery Materials: movable alphabet, sand/tray, sand-paper and fingers (ha).

TOUCH-FINGER-TO-FINGER Method-Spell three letter word by letter name and touch the three fingers being held up (note individual letter names), write out the whole word while touching a finger by writing in some medium such as sand/tray, sand paper, table/shaving cream, movable alphabet, etc.. Then, count the letters make sure all there and none of the letters were omitted. Then, match the letters to original word to make sure none were replaced, repeated, added or substituted. (NOTE: Similar to Orton-Gillingham Method: When teaching sight words, don’t begin with one and two letter sight words first but three letter. The brain needs a distinct beginning, middle and end. Similar to Montessori Method- When teaching sight words, you can wait till they have mastered 50 phonetic first before starting sight word leveled mastery. Also, I suggest in learning in chunks of three (three is key to all learning) using Montessori’s Three Part Lesson (you can google on you tube).

Three Letter	NOTES
the and any you are all six     his                             not use why put two one was who out air own add

Decoding: SIGHT WORDS- TOUCH-FINGER-TO-FINGER Write individual sounds on the line, write whole word while on the line while touch finger to table. NOTE: look at Dyslexia Screening to see which letter is normally dropped, before writing have the student WATCH OUT for that Letter Position.

Back of index card;

Front of index card: 

Two  (3 letters)

Sight Word Ladder (top/bottom) Never: read bottom to top

and

band

sand

land

Activity 2- done to 90% mastery Materials: whole alphabet printed off, notebook, note cards, dry erase board, writing utensils, glue and scissors, printed off blank graphic organizers.

SIGHT WORDS: words that don’t follow standard rules or sounds. That them count the and match. Use TOUCH-FINGER-TO-FINGER (see description above). Write individual letter names, write out the whole word while touching finger, then spell by writing onto graphic organizer (blank copy) : ALWAYS Check Your Writing

Sight Words

3 Letter	4 Letter	2 Letter	1 Letter	5 Letter	6 Letter
the	with	of	I	there	number
and	they	to	A	which	people
you	have	is	a	their	called
was	from	he		other	things
are	word	on		about	follow
one	what	as		these	change
all	were	by		would	animal
use	when	do		write	mother
out	your	or		could	answer
two	said	my		first	should
our	into	if		water	little
are	been			right
it’s	want			small
his	very			think
all	give
old	about
	many
	that
	know
	away
	come
	half
	can’t
	find

Graphic Organizer

3 letter (see appendix):

o	n	e

4 letter:

s	ai	d

5 Letter:

sh	ou	ld

Graphic Organizer (Blank Copy-see Pg. 73)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oY7AM5uIw9gXtPtGP34L0ypRzwwKgKVWYUhSo8RJKk8/edit?usp=sharing

Activity 3- Memory Match (Daily) & Make a Sight Word Spelling Book

Sight Word Memory Matching Game: Materials: computer.

(search: sight words) https://matchthememory.com/search/sight%20words;
https://www.memozor.com/other-memory-games/words-memory-games/match-game-words

Book Making: https://app.writereader.com

Activity 4- NEVER TO BE TIMED!

Practice: Review sight words by reading and spelling out loud.

3-1 Letter	4 letter	5 letter
the  and not put all old can too are day you one two to as we in if go by	look with then hen pen don’t were come  said what very will  into back from they down four five	could  house about asked their words  first three other

Now available in Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/MzA5OTU4MjI1MjNa/a/MzQyNjk3NjY5NjBa/details

(more sight word practice here: https://quizlet.com/join/5d7s6t7Zv)

PLEASE NOTE: All students need sight word mastery, especially those who have surface dyslexia (dyseidetic), who struggle with sight and nonsense words: https://myelbert.com/2020/09/09/dyslexia-help-dysphonetic-phonetic-vs-dsyeidetic-visual-dyslexia/#.X6FwxVBMFrR

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