SightWords.com: Free Resources to Teach Your Child to Read

Description

Sightwords.com is a website packed with games, activities, and tools to help parents and educators prepare children for learning to read.

The free and printable materials are designed to promote learning in the classroom and also at home. The site's features include:
A Curriculum covering the full range of Phonological and Phonemic Awareness.
Classroom-tested Lessons based on the latest research, complete with "how-to" videos.
Printable picture cards, word lists, and game boards.
Teaching Tips for tailoring games to the specific needs of your students.

Sightwords.com is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early child literacy.

This collection of resources is designed to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. We combine the latest literacy research with decades of teaching experience to bring you the best methods of instruction to make teaching easier, more effective, and more fun.

Sight words build speed and fluency when reading. Accuracy, speed, and fluency in reading increase reading comprehension. The sight words are a collection of words that a child should learn to recognize without sounding out the letters. The sight words are both common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build a vocabulary. Combining sight words with phonics instruction increases a child's speed and fluency in reading.

This website includes a detailed curriculum outline to give you an overview of how the individual lessons fit together. It provides detailed instructions and techniques to show you how to teach the material and how to help a child overcome common roadblocks. It also includes free teaching aids, games, and other materials that you can download and use with your lessons.