A simple process for teaching sight words

您好，这是来自测得的妈妈的Anna Geiger！今天，我们将结束有关视觉单词的三部分系列。在第一周，我们谈到了围绕视线的误解。上周，我们谈到了教导镜头时要记住的最重要的事情。今天，我们将研究一个简单的过程来介绍视觉单词。

Now, just to be clear, when I use the term "sight word," I'm referring to those high frequency words we want our students to recognize automatically. There's a lot of different definitions around sight words. I believe we talked about that in the first week. Today I'm using it in a more general way, just the idea that these are words we want students to recognize instantly, without needing to sound out or guess.

With that said, let's take a look at a simple process for teaching sight words.

Number one, count the sounds in the word. This is really important because we've learned that we go from speech to print when learning to read, not the other way around. We want our students to examine the sounds in the word.

我可能会说：“今天，我们将学习阅读和拼写'一些'。说“一些”一词。让我们计算单词中的声音。在您面前，您有一些盒子。我希望您每次说声音时都会在每个盒子里放一个柜台。您准备好了吗？让我们说“某些”一词的声音：/s/，/ŭ/，/m/。多少声音？三。是的。”

这就是你要做的。您正在计算声音。拥有盒子是有帮助的，每个声音都将在单词中使用，或者您只能让它们使用计数器并将它们推向每个声音。

The next thing I would say is, "Let's work on spelling each of those sounds. What's the first sound in the word 'some?' /s/. What letter would you expect to see for the sound /s/? That's right, an S. Go ahead and write an S in the first box. All right. Let's point to the second box, which is for the second sound. What's the second sound in the word some? /ŭ/. What letter represents the sound /ŭ/? Yes, it's usually a U, but this word is different. In this word, we're going to put an O. So put an 'o' in the middle box. All right, now it's time for the last sound. What's the last sound in some? /m/. What letter represents /m/? That's right, M. Put an M in the last box, and then we have to squeeze a sneaky letter in there. Squeeze in the E. We're not sure why we have to use an E in the word some, but there it is. Let's look at the word and point to each of the letters. S-O-M-E spells 'some.'"

That would be the first couple of steps. You're going to count the sounds, and you're going to explicitly teach the spelling of each sound.

The next thing I recommend is practicing reading the word in different contexts. First, I would include the word in a list of other words that have a similar pattern. For the word "some," we could read "some, come."

然后，我建议用某些句子阅读单词。这些句子应该根据孩子在学习这个视觉词时的阅读发展中的何处可以解释。“一些”一词可能是您要教的较早单词之一，因此您可以使句子保持简单。“我有一些猫。我有一些杯子。我有一些狗，”或类似的东西。您可能希望他们突出显示或强调该视觉词，然后阅读句子。

Finally, you should have them practice building, tracing, and writing the word. You could give them magnetic letters. You could give them pieces of paper where each piece of paper has one letter of the word. Have them practice building the word a few times. Have them trace it so they can practice the proper proportions for the letters and practice writing the word.

Now there's one more thing that would be really helpful in addition to all of these steps. That would be to have students have a book - a decodable book - featuring the sight word that they can use to practice.

It's hard to find this kind of book. I actually created a whole set of sight word books years ago. They were on my website for years, but I took them down. I took them down a year or two ago because they were not aligned with the science of reading. The sight word books that I created were based on my understanding of balanced literacy, which says that students should use pictures and context clues as they're solving words, at least in those beginning reading books. That's what the books relied on. I thought that seeing the sight word over and over, and then using the pictures and context and everything to read the rest of the book, would help those sight words stick.

But really, our kids are much better off if those "sight word books" they're using are decodable. That way they're practicing their decoding skills, and then they're practicing reading those high frequency words as well.

如果您对自己想：“好吧，那些步骤听起来不错。为我想教的所有视觉词创建自己的可解码文本。现在什么？”

好消息是我为您做了。我和我的团队一直在努力创建一组240个视力课程。每节课都有一本可解码的书，其中包含高频单词。这些在我们的商店中可用。常规价格为49美元，这是一个抢断，因为每本书中的每堂课只需每本每本书的费用约为10美分。

However, if you're listening to this in real time, and that is November 22nd, 2021 or a few days after, we're offering a special Cyber Monday/Black Friday sale where you can get the whole set of 240 lessons in books for $27. Or you could join The Measured Mom Plus, our membership, which has over 2000 well-organized printables for teaching in a structured way, and we keep adding to it all the time. If you join for the year, you can get this bundle of sight word lessons and books for free through November 29th, through Cyber Monday.

所以你有三个选择,我猜。你可以吧te the lessons and books on your own, which is totally fine. Or if you'd like someone to do it for you, you can head to my website, and you can go to themeasuredmom.com/sightwordlessons to get the whole bundle for an incredible price, especially if you're getting this in 2021, before Cyber Monday.

第三期选项是加入会员资格，测量的Mom Plus，如果您在11月29日之前这样做，您将免费收到所有这些会员。要了解有关会员资格的更多信息，您可以访问themuredmom.com/join。

You'll find links to this product in my shop, as well as a link to join the membership, and also a link to some free lessons and books that I've offered on my website, so that you can check to see if it's something that you'd like to invest in. All of this will be on the show notes page, themeasuredmom.com/episode55.

下周，我打算开始一个令人兴奋的新10部分系列，然后我会见您。谢谢收听。