Word Families / Sight Words

One of the ways we teach children to decode words is to teach them to look for "chunks" or parts of the word that they know (at...as in cat or that). Words that have the same chunk are called word families. Each week we will be learning three new word families that will help your child learn to read.

Also each week, we work on high frequency words or "sight" words. These are words that do not follow the rules - so the children must learn them by sight. Each Monday, your child will receive a list of sight words (between 10 - 15 words) that will help prepare them for our sight word test on Friday. On Friday, I will write the words on index cards. The children must be able to read the cards fluently (in any order) in order to receive credit. The children must be familiar enough with the word to say it fluently, because I will not allow time for the words to be sounded out.