The best kindergarten sight words

Have you been following along with our sight word series? We’ve talked about what sight words are, how to teach them, and why it’s important to integrate瞄准词teaching with phonics. Today we’ll tackle幼儿园景点词。

Many schools require kindergarten teachers to teach a long list of sight words to their kindergartners.

不幸的是，列表种类ergarten sight wordsare often problematic.

要了解原因，我们需要记住景象是什么以及我们如何学习阅读它们。

快速评论......看见单词是什么？

即使我在整个系列中使用术语“瞄准词”是指儿童需要学习的高频词，重要的是要记住真正的定义。

A瞄准词是一个字,立刻和毫不费力地recal吗led from memory, regardless of whether it is phonically regular or irregular. Asight-word vocabularyrefers to the pool of words a student can effortless recognize.

David A. Kilpatrick，PHD

然后，我们的目标是将高频词（单词出现在印刷中）变为视线词 - 我们学生的单词自动认识到，而无需发出声音或猜测。

Why memorizing sight words isn’t a good long term strategy

While we may teach our students to memorize a handful of words to get them going, our goal is NOT to teach our students to memorize sight words as wholes.

They can only do this for so long – the brain is not able to memorize an unending number of words, because that’s nothow the brain learns to read.

We learn to read by matching the sounds to the letters (sounding out words). When we do this enough times, we划分地图the word into our brains so that when we see it in the future, we recognize it automatically.

除非我们注意字母及其声音，否则我们无法正常地图单词。

结论=通过呼唤他们的字母和声音来教导瞄准词。在这篇文章中了解更多内容：如何教导瞄准词。

How to choose kindergarten sight words

如果我能让Dolch级景观Word列表，我会！

While I do think that theDOLCH和FRY Word Lists很有帮助，因为他们给了我们最常见的高频词，等级级别列表只是荒谬。

（案例在点：CVC字cutand走tare on the third grade list. Huh??)

所以让我们同意Dolcch幼儿园名单并不是选择幼儿园景点词的任何权威。

相反，在选择您的视线时，您需要考虑两件事：

1. Choose high frequency words that are decodable, and teach them when you teach the corresponding phonics skill.
2. 选择学生将在其中遇到的高频词可解放books.

幼儿园的可解放的视线词

When I look at my ownscope and sequencefor teaching phonics skills, I consider the following to be appropriate phonics skills to teach in kindergarten. (Depending on the setting, teachers may not have time to address the later skills in this list.)

• VC words (if, it, etc.)
• CVC字（CAN，BAT等）
• Words with beginning and ending digraphs (th, sh, ch, etc.)
• Words with beginning blends (fr, st, sl, etc.)
• 结束混合的单词（-st，-mp等）
• 以-ng和-nk结尾的单词
• --old，-ind，，-olt和-ost字的家庭
• 打开音节单音节词（他，她，be等）

知道这一点，让我们看看符合这些模式的Dolch和Fry列表中的单词。您可以在语音课程中教授这些单词。

虽然您需要在教语语音技能之前教授一些这些词语（所以孩子们可以读取他们可解码的书籍），但大多数以下单词都不应该被教导为整个单词来记忆。

VC和CVC高频词

• am
• an
• as
• at
• 大的
• but
• can
• cut
• did
• 得到
• 走t
• had
• has*
• 他
• 他的
• hot
• 如果
• 在
• is*
• 它
• let
• not
• 离开
• oin
• ran
• red
• run
• sit
• six
• 告诉**
• ten
• up
• us
• well**
• will
• 是的

*教导您的学生“s”可以代表/ z /声音。

**Technically not CVC, but students easily learn that two identical letters in a row represent a single sound.

High frequency words with digraphs

• much
• pick
• 将
• such
• 那
• them
• thin
• this
• 什么时候
• which
• wish
• 和

High frequency words with blends

• and
• ask
• best
• black
• bring
• fast
• 帮助
• 它s
• jump
• just
• must
• stop
• 去

High frequency words that end with -ng or -nk

• 喝
• long
• sing
• thank
• thing
• think

High frequency words in the -ind, -old, and -ost families

• 找
• 种类
• cold
• hold
• old
• 最多

高频打开音节词

• a
• be
• by
• fly
• 走
• 他
• I
• 我
• 我的
• no
• she
• so
• try
• we

哇！这是我们可以在我们的语音课程中教授的很多单词......不需要记忆！

然而......在您到达适当的语音课之前，您应该教一些这些单词。例如，孩子们显然需要从一开始就读“a”和“我”。

Other decodable high frequency words that you will probably want to teach early on include和，去，他，她， 和我们。

I also don’t want to give the impression that practice isn’t incorporate. Kids need to read these words over and over again to orthographically map them.

I recommend using editable reading word games so you can type in the words you want your students to practice.

What about irregular kindergarten sight words?

有一个很多的高频词，我们不能听起来（或者至少我们不能听起来全部the parts).

Which ones should we teach in kindergarten?

这是一个艰难的电话。没有完美的名单。

我的建议是教授孩子最有可能遇到的话可解放他们正在阅读他们的语音课程和阅读练习。

(Notice:I did NOT say “the words they are encountering in their平整books. If you are using leveled books in kindergarten, I get it. I did this in first grade for years. But now I understand the problem with this approach. Check out my podcast,Should you use leveled or decodable books?了解更多信息。）

可能的幼儿园不规则的高频词列表

• the
• is (technically not irregular, because “s” often represents /z/)
• to
• are
• does
• 从
• of
• one
• said
• they
• two
• 曾是
• 是
• 什么
• who
• you
• your
• 给
• 有
• has (technically not irregular, because “s” often represents /z/)

Well, look at that! That list looks pretty manageable. It’s not complete – students need to learn decodable high frequency words as well – but when you have asystematic approach to phonics instruction, they’ll be learning those words as you go.

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