Move 5: Embrace A Better Approach to Teaching "Sight Words"

Match the following

• Regular High-Frequency Word

• A process that involves connecting pronunciations of phonemes in a word to the graphemes that represent those pronunciations and linking them to the word's meaning to store the word in long term memory

• Orthographic Mapping

• A word that occurs often in text

• Sight Word

• A word that occurs often in text and has consistent reliable sound-spelling correspondences

• High-Frequency Words

• Any word that can be retrieved from memory instantly because it has been orthographically mapped

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Temporarily Irregularly Spelled

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(b) Permanently Irregularly Spelled

• little

• away

• the

• blue

• come

• where

• one

• down

A kindergarten teacher asks the a student to say the word cart. She then asks the student to take away /t/ and tell her what they get. Which type of phonemic awareness is the student practicing?

• onset and rime manipulation

• segmenting

• phoneme isolation

• phoneme deletion

A student is reading a nonfiction book and is having trouble decoding the word "human". Which syllable type rule could the teacher explain to help the student decode "human" and similar words in the future?

• open

• closed

• r-controlled vowel

• vowel teams

Research has indicated that which of the following is the best predictor of early reading success?

• interest in books

• phonemic awareness

• oral vocabulary

• concepts of print

After reading a nonfiction text in class, the teacher gives a struggling reader a graphic organizer that contains the following sentence stems: Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then. This graphic organizer would best help the student with which skill?

• inferring

• evaluating

• summarizing

• drawing conclusions

What should learners do if they struggle to identify sounds in words?

• Focus on silent letters

• Skip spelling

• Practice phonemic awareness

• Continue with harder words

A student is struggling to decode words like "rabbit" and "problem". Which syllable type would be beneficial for the teacher to review?

• open syllables

• CVVC

• closed syllables

• silent -e

How many phonemes (letter sounds) in CLEANLY? Hint - count EVERY sound.

• 6

• 5

• 4

A second grade teacher is designing a word sort focused on inflected endings. Which pair of words should they use in the lesson?

• blew and blue

• jump and jumping

• day and weigh

• jumped and eating