Mastering Sight Words

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I have had some great success with my 2nd graders and their sight words. I’m coming up from Kindergarten, so keep in mind, I’m used to having to drag words out of kids. So, having students on all lists of Fry words makes me very excited! Here’s what I’ve been doing to help them with mastering sight words.

When I test Fry Sight Words, I start with my Sight Word binder.

Since I didn’t want to use 21 binder separators, I just stuck a Post-it on each kids’ set to keep their words separated.

Mastering Sight Words in primary grades- activities and assessments to motivate students to learn their sight words

(Source: Sight Word Assessment Set)

Every week, my students get five words to study. If they get these words by Friday, they get five new words on Monday. If they only master three of them, then I transfer two of them over to the next week. Each kiddo has their own set of all ten Sight Word Lists.

(Source: Sight Word Assessment Set)

Then I found that some of my kids weren’t motivated to study their words. They were accepting of the fact that they would just work on them next week with no consequence, so I created an incentive chart for my Fry Sight Word success.

As the students complete a set of 100 words, they get to move their superhero up a level. This helps tremendously with mastering sight words.