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Sight Words
I really don't remember how I learned to read, but now that my daughter is doing it, it is all coming back to me. One thing that I noticed is much different from when I learned is that they are more about sight words than they were when I was learning. My daughter's school also calls these high frequency words, and they are meant to be noticed and remembered on sight rather than having to sound them out until they are learned. As long as it works, you'll get no argument from me.
Some of the early sight words that my daughter learned were surprising. They are the most used words, so I guess that makes sense, but some were still quite surprising. One of the first ones that she learned was the word ëlittleë. I hadn't realized how much that word is really used, but it must be, as it was in the very first set of the sight words that she was working on when they started doing reading exercises. Some of the other words in the small set were ëamë, ëIë, and ëtheë. After that, many of the words were short and common, and she was very good with picking them up.
When we had our very first parent teacher conference, I was asking the teacher about sight words. There was a poem on the wall that they class reads each day, and my daughter got out a pointer, which is standard practice in her classroom, and read me the poem. Some of the words were rather large, and I was very proud of her. However, I asked the teacher if memorizing the sight words was the same thing as learning them. She assured me that it was. Memorizing has gotten a bad rap, and it is often one of the best ways to go about early learning of letters, sounds, and words.
If you want to start your child off early, as in before they go to school, you can always teach them some early sight words. You do want to be careful though, as this can cause problems in school. It would be great for them to learn some words, but you don't want them to be bored when they start with the rest of their class. There is always the chance they can skip kindergarten if they know enough sight words, but they probably don't know the other things that kindergarten teaches. Go ahead and give them a head start, but don't go so far that they have nothing to do in school. We all know where that leads at such an age.
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