It’s Friday, which means it’s time for me to share another set of sight word booklets! Today’s sight word is “was” and I have three printable booklets to share with you. One of the booklets is in black and white, to make it easier for printing or to use for coloring.
In this download, there are these 3 booklets:
- The Weather
- His Feelings
- Movement
Each of these sight word readers focus on the word “was”. They also use words that were learned in previous sight word readers. The child can also use the pictures to help them read the sentences. You may have to help them with words that are not sight words. Encourage your child to sound out words, if they can!
You can download the FREE sight word readers here —> Sight Word Reader- was
Find all the sight word readers in my collection HERE.
Print pages 2-13 on paper. (Page 1 is my Terms of Use.) You can also print the pages front and back. If you have troubles printing, make sure Adobe is up to date. You can download the most current version here.
If you want to print these without color, make sure to select “print in greyscale” on the print menu.
After printing, cut out the pages and staple them together. Enjoy reading with your little one!!
So many sight word books are available on the market for teaching emergent readers. Check out these tried and true sight word books and sets.
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In our pursuit to promote literacy, we collaborated to create books ideal for an early emergent reader. Using high frequency words, simple sentences, familiar objects and experiences, we created stories that are both educational and entertaining.
Learn With Fern: Sight Words I & Am
Sight word content: > 50%
Repetitive sight words: I, am
Concepts: feelings
Click here for a free sight word book introducing the sight words “I” and “am”. This book is ideal for an early emergent reader. It contains simple sentences, repeated text and illustrations that support the text.
After reading the above sight word book, complete this sight word worksheet which shows you how to properly write the sight words “I” and “am.” It also provides sentence strips for a child to complete the sentence, “I am …” and a space to draw a picture.
Sight Word Book – Meet Emily Michele
Sight word content: > 84%
Repetitive sight words: she, is, to
Concepts: parts of face, colors
Click here to read about Emily Michele.
Sight Word Book – Meet Emily’s Family
Sight word content: > 84%
Repetitive sight words: she, has, a
Concepts: family
Click here to read about Emily’s family.
Sight Word Book – Do You Know What I Am?
Sight word content: > 75%
Repetitive sight words: Do you know what I am
Concepts: farm animals
Click here to read about Emily’s disguises.
Sight Word Book – Emily Makes a Fruit Basket
Sight word content: > 60%
Repetitive sight words: will, go, in, the
Concepts: Counting from 1 to 5
Click here to read about Emily making a fruit basket.
Sight word books help children learn to automatically recognize high frequency words and develop a sight word vocabulary.
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Are you teaching sight words to young readers?
You’re in the right place!
In this post I’ll show you exactly how to teach sight words using hands-on lessons and free printable sight word books.
But first things first …
What ARE sight words, anyway?
It depends whom you ask.
When reading researchers use the term sight words, they’re referring to the words that a reader recognizes instantly, on sight.
Sight words can also refer to words that our readers encounter frequently when reading. That’s the definition I’ll be using here. We want our readers to know these words instantly as they work to become fluent readers.
It’s time to rethink how we teach sight words.
I used to think that when we teach sight words to young readers, we should teach them as whole words. This is why I used to share a collection of sight word books that taught the words through repeated exposure. (Those will soon disappear from the site and my shop.)
But research is telling us that this isn’t how the brain learns to read.
In order for kids’ brains to make new words a part of their permanent sight word vocabulary (the fancy word for this is orthographic mapping), they need to connect the sounds to the letters.
In other words? Sound it out.
Integrating high-frequency words into phonics lessons allows students to make sense of spelling patterns for these words. – readingrockets.org
I know what you’re thinking.
What about words that we CAN’T sound out?
We call attention to the parts of the word that are phonetic (and there’s usually at least 1-2 of them). Then we teach learners to learn the tricky parts by heart.
How to teach high frequency words to young learners
- First, know our goal here. Our goal is not to teach loads of sight words as whole words, because kids need to connect the sounds to letters when reading. Instead, our goal is to integrate sight word learning with phonics instruction.
- Next, we need to make sure our learners are ready to sound out words. Not sure? Check out this post.
- All set? Great. Name the new word, and have your learner repeat it.
- Name the individual phonemes (sounds) in the word. For example, in the word is, there are two phonemes: /i/ and /z/.
- Spell the sounds. Call attention to any unexpected spelling. In is, we spell /i/ with i and /z/ with s.
- If possible, have your learner read related words. Has and his are great words to read alongside is because they are short vowel words with an s that represents the the /z/ sound.
- Have your learner read connected text. Connected text can be decodable sentences or books.
Watch the video to see a sight word lesson in action …
Where can you find sight word lessons and decodable sight word books?
You’ll find a beginner’s collection below. Enjoy!
P.S. I look forward to adding more of these to our membership site, The Measured Mom Plus. I do not plan to add any more free books to this page. Learn more about membership here.
Sight word readers
SIGHT WORD WORKSHEETS THAT ALIGN WITH THE SCIENCE OF READING
Sight Word Worksheets – Based on the science of reading!
$15.00
Say goodbye to worksheets that simply keep kids busy. THESE worksheets help kids focus on the spellings of each individual sound … which is exactly what they need to master these high frequency words!
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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9
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Sight words break the phonetic code. Sight words include: the, they, from, would, could, from, their….etc. They are common in text, especially beginning reader books. If you’d like your student to practice reading sight words in-context, click the links for FREE sight word stories pdf. Here’s one about camels:
Camels
If you’d like more FREE sight word stories, click the link below for one about polar bears.
Polar Bears
What are sight words?
Sight words are also called high frequency words. They are common words that break the phonetic code in some way. Kids are encouraged to memorize sight words. In Kindergarten, kids learn common sight words like the, to, of, from, they, have…etc. In 1st grade, kids continue to learn the 120 most common sight words. By the end of 1st grade, kids are typically done learning sight words. Struggling readers, however, often work on sight words in 3rd and 4th grade.
If you have a student that struggles to memorize sight words, start by teaching her the phonetic code systematically (meaning one phonics sound at a time). Sight words contain at least one phonetically regular component. Often, the first unit is regular as well as in words like they, from, would, could, their…etc. Often, kids need access to the regular component to decipher the word.
If you’d like to teach using systematic phonics instruction, you can work your way through Reading Elephant phonics books. Our books are a great resource for struggling readers.
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