• Spend a few minutes each day reviewing these words.  Your child should be able to recognize them at a glance, without needing to sound them out. 

    Suggested activities:

      Put the new  "word of the week" on your computer's screen saver.  Contact me if you'd like to know how to do that.

      Flashlight Tag

    Start by writing 5 words from the list on index cards or sticky notes.  Place them around the room.  Have your child sit in the center of the room with a flashlight.  Turn off the lights and say a word.  Have your child shine the light on the card.  Continue the process with all the words.  

    For some words, you may give a hint (for example say, "This the the opposite of close ".  Remember to praise good efforts!

    When your child can identify the words quickly, add more cards or notes.

    Concentration  

    Play this on-line game with your child

     

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    Be sure to master the pre-primer and primer words before moving onto this list.  The words in red appear most frequently in books.  Study them first.

    First Grade Sight Words:

    a fter again an any
    ask by could every
    fly from give giving
    had has her him
    his how just know
    let live may of
    old once open over
    put round some stop
    take thank them then
    walk were when