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

Match the following

• Regular High-Frequency Word

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

• High-Frequency Words

• A word that occurs often in text

• Sight Word

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

• Orthographic Mapping

• 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

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Temporarily Irregularly Spelled

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(b) Permanently Irregularly Spelled

• one

• come

• blue

• the

• down

• little

• where

• away

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