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{Class Seven}
Sight Word DVD 2
Sight Word Graphs 3
Sight Word Lily Pad Hop 8
Spell It, Build It, Write It 14
Splat 22
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{Supplies} Heidi Songs DVD from your bonus box. DVD player and television for playing the disc.
{Time}
10 minutes a day until the sight words are learned well.
{Directions}
1. Explain that your child is going to learn to read 24 words quickly. They are the 24 most
common words your child will see when he is reading and you want him to recognize them in
a snap so that he does not waste time sounding them out over and over again.
2. Play one of the songs on the DVD several times through until your child knows the words and
movements well. Make sure to sing along with the song too. Seeing you practice will increase
your child’s motivation.
3. When your child is ready, sing along with a new song several times.
4. Continue singing your way through the DVD for 10 minutes or until your child loses interest.
Note: The order of the words you introduce does not matter.
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{Sight Word DVD} Teaching children new things through music helps many students learn more quickly. Heidi Songs’ DVD is one of my favorite ways to introduce sight words because it’s so playful and active. I predict your child will love it too.
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These sight word graphs are perfect entertainment for car rides, restaurant waits and trips to the doctor’s office. Just grab a printout and a pencil and take the learning on the road.
{Supplies}
Pages 4 to 7: Sight Word Graph printables. A pencil or marker.
{Time}
7 minutes
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{Sight Word Graphs}
{Directions}
1. Give your child one of the graph printables and a pencil. Invite her to write a
sight word in each of the colorful rectangles at the bottom of the page.
2. Have her cross off one of the words written in the box at the top of the page.
Then, ask her to copy the word into the correct column on the graph.
3. Invite your child to continue crossing off and writing the sight words until all of
the words have been sorted.
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theaiandin
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and
the a
in
and
in
the
anda
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that
toheusthatwas look
lookis
hewas
that he
is
to
look
is
toto
look
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said
you saidfor up go we
saidgo
weupsaid
we
go
for you
go
forfor
you forup
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can
littleplaycanseeme
canme
playcan
play
me
littlesee
me
littlelittle
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{Supplies}
Page 9 to 13: Lily Pad printables.
Scissors.
{Time}
10 minutes
{Directions}
1. Before your child joins you, cut out the lily pads. Place 10-‐‑12 sight word lily pads face-‐‑up in a large circle. In the middle, lay down several of the blank lily pads. The layout will look something like this:
2. When your child joins you, explain that he will pretend to be a frog sitting in the middle of a large lake. In order to stay in the game, he must hop to the lily pad you call out without falling in the water. However, there’s one important catch – he can only hop on the blank lily pads in the middle of the lake or the sight word lily pad that you call out. For example, if you said {are}, your child must hop over to the {are} lily pad without touching {have}, {for}, etc.
3. Call out one sight word at a time and have your child hop to it. Continue playing until your child loses interest.
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Let’s face it: children love racing, jumping and running through the day. This simple game helps kids burn off a little energy as they hop their way toward learning sight words.
{Lily Pad Hop}
Sight Word Lily Pads
Blank Lily Pads
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{Supplies}
Pages 15 to 23: Spell It, Build It, Write It printables. A set of lowercase magnetic letters. A pencil or marker.
{Time}
10 minutes
{Directions}
1. Ask your child to spell one of the words on the printable out loud.
2. Then invite your child to use the magnetic letters to spell the word in the “Build It”
column.
3. Finally, have him write the word in the “Write It” column.
4. Continue play until your child loses interest or spells, builds and writes all of the sight
words.
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{Spell It, Build It, Write It}
A fast way to teach children new words quickly is to have them play with the words in different ways. This activity does just that by having kids spell, build and write the words. It’s simple but effective.
say it build it write it
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that
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look
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{Supplies}
Pages 24 to 28: Splat printables.
Scissors.
{Time}
10 minutes
{Directions}
1. Cut out the Splat cards and lay them in a pile face down between two players.
2. Player One picks the top card from the pile. If the card is a sight word, he reads it out
loud and lays it face up in front of him. If the card says “Splat”, he must return the
card to the bottom of the pile.
3. Player Two turns the next card in the pile and follows the same rules outlined in step
two.
4. Player One turns the next card in the pile. If the card is a sight word, he reads it out
loud and lays it face up in front of him. If the card says “Splat”, he returns the card to
the bottom of the pile along with any other sight words he has collected.
5. Play continues until a player collects four sight words.
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In this game of luck, players try to be the first to collect four sight words. But beware… if a player pulls “Splat”, he loses his cards and must start from scratch.
{Splat}
splat! splat! splat!
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