Sunday, November 13, 2016
Sight Words
I am placed in a first grade classroom! These past couple weeks have been eye-opening and I am learning so much from just being in the classroom with the students. One thing my cooperating teacher does that I really like is sight words of the week. At the beginning of each week we have four new sight words that are the focus for the rest of the week. These words appear in the morning message, in our reading books, and in our writing practice. The students get to practice writing sentences with the words and they have a spelling test on the words at the end of the week. I love how the students get practice with the words for a whole weeks worth of class. I feel this would be less effective if they were just specifically given the words to memorize for their test. This way they are seeing them in books and are able to use them in their writing. I am eager to keep hearing more about other teaching styles!
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I like how your co-teacher has sight words for the week! I ma placed in a kindergarten classroom, and my co-teacher also has a sight word of the week. For that week the students practice writing and reading the word during their stations. This seems like a very effective way of teaching!
ReplyDeleteI think I would have been a student that benefited from the use of sight words in that format as opposed to a spelling list. It's smart to have them use the words in writing practice too. I think that is a great thing for your cooperating teacher to do for the students. It will be great for them in the long run.
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