Room 3 & 4 Fast Words

Room 3 & 4 Fast Words 

Strategies for Sight Words

First, I make sure my students are familiar with the alphabet. Then I introduce them to sight words (and Fast Words). These are words that students should be able to recognize without having to decode. Sight word acquisition is an important part of a child’s ability to read. Once they are able to read all sight words, we motivate the children to learn and practice the words  I am doing this early in the morning with the help of on of my lovely mums.

In Room 4 I am using many fun teacher strategies to help the kids to learn the sight words/fast words. In order to reach all learners, I am trying to use several strategies.

A few fun teacher strategies that I use to help students learn sight words in an exciting educational way are: 

• Teach with Pictures
• Teach through Repetition - give kids the opportunity to read, write and draw sight words daily.
• Word Wall - Create a word wall that students can reference.
• Use Popcorn Words and Word Jail
• Teach Words through Games - Games are a fun, hands-on way to reinforce sight words. 

I try to make sight word learning fun and try and incorporate more than just one of these ideas, to ensure I reach all 
student learning types.