SIGHT WORDS!

Sight words are also known as high frequency words (and are also sometimes called Dolch words).

These are words that are commonly used in the english language. 

We read and write these words A LOT. Often, they are words that need to be learned on ‘sight’ rather than through sounding out/phonics strategies.

Knowing yours sight words means you can read with stronger fluency. It improves your general level of reading acquisition.  Being able to spell sight words also helps with writing. Sight words are ‘foundation words’—words we often build our sentences around. 

If you look above in red letters you will see Support for Sight Words. Click on that and it will take you to my sight word pages with some awesome links, such as Spelling City and Mrs. Perkins.

These sites can be used at home. No login or password is necessary!

Click on the link above and check them out!

Raz-kids.com is AWESOME!

In mid September I sent home a letter introducing myself and also explaining an AWESOME reading site: raz-kids.com

This site provides levelled books, meaning books that can be tailored to your child's instructional reading level ('just right books'--not too hard, not too easy!)

We determine their instructional reading level here at the school.

Then I can assign a selection of corresponding raz-kids books.

Each student has a password or 'symbol', which has been sent home. The login information has been sent home as well.

This site can be access from any computer! It is used at school, can be used at home, and also has a mobile app--so it can be used on the go!

This sight provides three levels of instruction: first, it reads the book to the child (highlighting words as it goes). Then the student can practise reading it themselves. There is also a short quiz tied to the book to assess comprehension.

For each completed task, students gain stars which they can then 'spend' on site to obtain robot parts for their robot or cool accessories for their rocket (like aliens, furniture and plants).

You can access this site by clicking on my page tabs above, on the first image above, clicking here...or simply type in raz-kids.com

If you are interested in the free app, here is it for iTunes and also for android. More information can be found out about those here. You login to the app the same way you log into the website, with the login information and the student name/password.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this site!

Regards,
Julie Johnson
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