Literacy Volunteers in Mercer County, Inc.
How to Teach Sight Words
Teaching Sight Words
- You and your students select words to be taught as sight words
from experience stories, reading material, students' personal
lists, or students' survival word lists.
- Ask your students to pick one word.
- Write or have the students write the word in manuscript on
a small card.
- Ask the students to put the word in a new sentence. You or
the students can write the new sentence on a piece of paper and
on the back of the word card.
- Teach the word by having the students read the word aloud
while looking at the word card.
- Have your students match the word card to the word in the
sentence, saying the word as it is being matched.
- Go on to the next word if the sequence is completed. If not,
go back to Step 5.
- Ask the students to shuffle the word cards and practice rereading
them.
- File known word cards. Keep others for additional practice.