UrbanBaby

06.09.08, 20:43 PM General Topics
9 replies

What "sight words" do kids learn first? Just curious. What's the point really? Does it help with reading later? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.09.08, 08:43 PM Flag

Dear UrbanBaby community,

Thank you so much for being a valued member of the UrbanBaby community. We wanted to inform you that we are shutting down the site on July 6th. We are grateful for your participation and support that has helped make UrbanBaby such an important resource to parents for many years.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at urbanbaby-support@cbsinteractive.com.

Thanks so much,

UrbanBaby Support

Heck if I know. I'm almost 40 and still don't know them. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 08:50 PM Flag

Don't know. My dc just started reading kind of spontaneously. Never went through "sight words". [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 08:51 PM Flag

If your dc seemed to start to start reading spontaneously and with fluency, it's more likely s/he went more or less straight to sight words without much of a "sounding it out" phase. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 09:08 PM Flag

sight words are those you can't sound out. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 08:55 PM Flag

Not necessarily words they can't sound out. They're words dc knows by sight and doesn't need to sound out. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 09:02 PM Flag

np--I thought sight words are words that don't follow any phonetic rules (like "of," "one" and "sure"). The list of dolch words seems to be a list of 2oo commonly used words--including some words like "go," which are phonetically straight-forward and commonly used in text. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.10.08, 02:45 AM Flag

Some words don't follow standard phonetic rules and can ONLY be learned by sight, as opposed to other words that can be sounded out first and later become part of dc's sight-word vocabulary. But sight words are ANY words the dc recognizes and can read without sounding them out. The dolch lists include the most commonly used words because those are the ones dc is most likely to learn by sight through repeated exposure, and conversely they're the most useful ones to know by sight since dc will encounter them so frequently. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.10.08, 10:22 AM Flag

The first ones they usually learn are their own names plus the most common words they come across in their books: stop, go, the, and, up, down, etc. Google "dolch words" to see a more comprehensive list. Some dc pick these words up simply through natural exposure to regular texts. Others need to learn them more deliberately, for instance with flashcards or basal readers. And some dc will use a combination of those. [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.09.08, 09:00 PM Flag

The ones like the, in , there, here, where, it, is etc... [ Reply | More

]
General Topics 06.10.08, 05:55 AM Flag