Sight Words

The Big Boy Tiny Girl Sight Words Work:
Both of my children have homework right now.   My son’s is mostly to catch up as he’s behind for several reasons, not all of which are his fault.  He’s catching up pretty quickly.   He went through the list last night and the way he’s been prepared at school it doesn’t matter what he doesn’t know because that’s just things we’ll work on.   He’s motivated by what he does know.

So he went through, ignoring the ones he didn’t know on the long list and being happy about the ones he recognized immediately.   We added a few to his memory last night and then he read some books together.   After reading two books twice he went back to the sight words and knew more on the list because he’d just been reading them.

My daughter’s sight words are a bit different.   There is that word, “sight” that doesn’t apply.   She can’t grasp the word all at once, she has to feel the words letter by letter.    But she can type.    So today she brought home a page of sight words.   She can’t read the sight words with consistency or ease, but get this—she wrote the page up.

She can type all the words easily.   So she prepared her own homework for tonight.    It’s interesting that she can write but can’t yet read.