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    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.  Children benefit from constant review and repetition. 

     

      Suggested activities:

    ccschoolicon3.gif Introduce simple words one at a time.  For instance, start with a word like "the".  Write the word on index cards or sticky notes.  Say each letter as you write the word. Have your child practice saying the words and tracing the letters. "t-h-e says 'the'".

      ccschoolicon3.gif Place the cards around the house.  Each time your child sees the card repeat the process "t-h-e says the"  

    ccschoolicon3.gif Play "Flash Light Tag".  Place the sight words all around your child's bedroom.  After reading your nightly bedtime story, turn off the lights.  Call out a sight word and have your child shine the flashlight on the word.

      ccschoolicon3.gif Use magnetic letters (found at a dollar store) and make words on the refrigerator or on a baking sheet.  Try foam letters in the bathtub.  

      ccschoolicon3.gif Write and read the words on a dry erase board or Magna Doodle.  

    ccschoolicon3.gif Give your child a highlighter or yellow crayon and have him find words s/he knows in newspaper or magazines.

    ccschoolicon3.gif Put one of the sight words on your computer's screensaver using "Marquee".  E-mail me if you don't know how to do this. 

  • Pre-primer words to know:

    (The words in red appear most frequently in books.  Study them first.)

    a and away big
    blue can come down
    find for funny go
    help here I in
    is it jump little
    look make me my
    not one play red
    run said see the
    three to two up
    we where yellow you