

Students need explicit instruction on connecting those sounds they hear to print. So it makes sense to start with hearing and manipulating sounds orally first. Let’s think about this, kindergarteners come to use knowing a ton of language and often not a whole lot of letters or graphemes or even their relationships to one another. More and more research shows that students do better with learning sounds when going from speech to print. Important to note that even fluent readers are still segmenting and decoding words but are able to process them so quickly and automatically that it requires little brain effort. Think of these as linking the roots to a tree. They also need to be segmenting sounds orally, blending sounds, and decoding with confidence. Students need to have a strong understanding of sounds, letters, and speech before they can be fluent readers. Not all kindergarteners will get to this level and that’s okay but here are some tips to help students move towards the ultimate goal of reading more fluently. Students that are reading fluently will read effortlessly, sound smooth, and have expression. Fluent readers have moved from knowing letter sounds to segmenting and blending words and are now more automatic in their ability to read. This site will be one of the first sites I go to to find critical learning worksheet material for my students K-3.Simply stated, a fluent reader is one who can read with accuracy, speed, expression, and automaticity. A devoted teacher to this site from this day forward! I would count it a special favor if this is possible. I have one request, while making packing for the various grade level of my students… I have printed out the coloring name pages can you insert also the months, of the year, and the days of the week worksheets for me. Whom ever the developers for this sight are I salute them from one educator to another. The information is attractive, filled with learning, writing, practice writing, motor skill development (fine, large) coloring, reading, vocabulary and spelling. This sight is a God sent! It is not shallow like so many other sights listed on the web. I am a special education teacher and am ALWAYS surfing the web for interesting, through, in depth, learning sights for my students various domains of learning. I would like to first start off by saying, ‘THIS IS A FANTASTIC SITE”. Our worksheets assist a child in learning to quickly recognize these sight words. Some of these words cannot be “sounded out” using phonetic principles. These are words that are so common that children should learn to quickly recognize them by sight, rather than ‘sounding them out’.

Sight words can be tricky for a child who is learning to read.


Whereas, Fry categorized his words based on frequency, e.g. Dolch categorized his words based on grades: pre-primer (PP), primer, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade. In addition, we created worksheets that contain several of Dolch’s preprimer and primer sight words.Īs noted above we indicated if the sight word was included on either Dolch or Fry’s sight word lists. These worksheets focus on more than one word. Based on our kindergarten and first grade reading curriculums, we created additional sight word worksheets.
