Do phonics and sight words go together?

A small number of words make up a large percentage of the words that appear in print. These are called high frequency words.

重要的是，我们的学生必须通过视力识别出大量的高频单词，以便他们可以流利地阅读。

我们称这些话 - 他们立即识别的单词无需发出声音或猜测 - 他们sight word vocabulary.

从本质上讲，我们希望我们的学生将高频单词变成自己的个人视觉词。

其中的一些高频词汇很容易ound out (words like在andcan）。其他的是不规则的，也不遵循可预测的语音模式（诸如此类的单词theand一些）。

Both爱德华·多尔奇（Edward Dolch）和爱德华·弗莱（Edward Fry）(yes, both were Edwards!) put together lists of high frequency words several decades ago.

I think Dolch and Fry did us a service by collecting high frequency words.

But they had a real problem when it came to execution.

Dolch and Fry both believed that we should teach students tomemorize这些高频单词作为批发。

Yet the majority of these high frequency words can be sounded out…他们根本不需要记住整体记忆！

Let’s take a look at sight words organized by phonics skill.

在许多学校中，开始读者有望记住长期的视觉单词。

他们经常期望他们每周学习的“视力”与那周的语音技能无关。

While this is certainly going to happen with irregular words and a few others, our GOAL should be to combine teach high frequency words WITHIN our phonics lessons as much as possible.

Don’t trust the “grade level” sight word lists

The Dolch sight word list of 220 words has been organized by grade level. I used to refer to it often. (In fact, I used to sell myhigh frequency word practice matsorganized by Dolch grade level. Now I just sell them as asingle set.)

Butthere’s nothing sacred about the Dolch grade level sight word lists; there is no reason to follow these leveled lists when choosing what words to teach our students.

For example, the high frequency words “cut,” “got,” “hot,” and “if” appear on the Dolchthird grade sight word list.

What??

显然，学会阅读CVC单词的幼儿园者可以毫无麻烦地阅读这些单词。剪裁，变热and如果不需要单独教导单词来记住……我们当然不需要等到三年级就可以解决这些问题！

那幼儿园的视觉词列表呢？

It contains words like “please” and “pretty.” There’s nothing wrong with waiting to teach “please” until you teach the “ea says long e” phonics pattern (likely not until first grade). And the word “pretty” is such an irregular one that you should probably wait to teach it.

Teach high frequency words according to spelling pattern whenever possible

常见字by phonics pattern

Of my list of 240 high frequency words, well over half of them can be organized by phonics pattern.

Yep, these words are DECODABLE!

这意味着您需要教孩子们记住的单词（尽管您甚至不必这样做，就像我们在一分钟内完成的那样）要小得多。

这是通过语音级别组织的视觉单词的快速屏幕截图。（向下滚动到本文的结尾，免费下载PDF。）

我们必须按以上顺序教授单词吗？

No. This list is organized by my personal scope and sequence,which you can get for free here.There is no perfect scope and sequence, so you certainly don’t need to follow mine exactly.

但是，您确实要确保您的范围和序列从简单到更复杂。

There are also times that you’ll want to teach words earlier than they’re listed.

For example, you wouldn’t necessarily introduce SEE until you teach the “ee says long e” pattern, likely in first grade. But this simple word is easy to recognize by sight, and I recommend teaching it is a “sight word” in kindergarten orpossibly even Pre-K.

The same is true for words like A, I, GO, and FOR. You don’t need to wait until you teach the corresponding phonics pattern.

But在general，最好将视觉单词与语音教学相结合。

What about irregular sight words?

Great question.

您仍然可以通过认识到许多令人惊讶的单词是集合的一部分来结合语音。

Teach them that way.

For example, don’t teach “any” one week and “many” several weeks later. Teach them together. Teach your students that in these words, the “a” represents the short e sound. The “y” at the end represents the long e sound.

Don’t teach “come” and “some” separately. Teach them together. Teach your students that in these words, the o-consonant-e pattern represents the short u sound.

在the free download at the end of this post, you’ll also get a list of irregular high frequency word, organized by phonics skill.

But what about irregular sight words that don’t share spelling patterns?

You can仍然use phonics by addressing the parts of the words that are regular and then learning the surprising parts “by heart.”

Have you seen theheart word magic videosfrom Really Great Reading? They do a great job showing you how to incorporate phonemic awareness and phonics so you don’t rely on whole word memorization.

Here’s a good routine to follow when teaching irregular sight words:

• 命名新单词, and have your learner repeat it.
• Name the individual phonemes(sounds) in the word. For example, in the worddoes，有三个音素： /d /， /u /和 /z /。
• Spell the sounds。引起注意任何意外的拼写。在does, we spell the short u sound with “oe” and the /z/ sound with s.
• 如果可能的话，请让您的学习者read related words.
• Have your learnerread connected text.连接的文本可以是可解码的句子或可解码的书。

Download your FREE sight word list organized by phonics skill below!

You’re invited to check out the rest of our sight word series …

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