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Here is some information on teaching Dolch Words. I think they are so important to teach all students, but especially struggling readers and English Language Learners. Dolch Words can give all students the boost they need to succeed. Grab our freebie for First Grade Dolch Sight Words here!
✅What are Dolch Sight Words?
According
to Wikipedia, The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words
compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the
"whole-word" method of beginning reading instruction. The list was
first published in a journal article in 1936 and then published in his book
Problems in Reading in 1948. Dolch
compiled the list based on children's books of his era, which is why nouns such
as "kitty" and "Santa Claus" appear on the list instead of
more high-frequency words. The list contains 220 "service words" that
have to be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency in the English
language. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list. Between 50% and
75% of all words used in schoolbooks, library books, newspapers, and magazines
are a part of the Dolch basic sight word vocabulary.
These lists of words are still assigned for
memorization in American elementary schools. Although most of the 220 Dolch
words are phonetic, children are sometimes told that they can't be
"sounded out" using common sound-to-letter implicit phonics patterns
and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, "sight
word". The list is divided according to the grades in which it was
intended that children would memorize these words. Wikipedia
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✅Why do they call them Sight Words?
Sight words,
often also called high frequency sight
words, are commonly used words
that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to
decode.
✅Why are Dolch Sight Words important to teach?
Sight
words are very important for your child to master because, believe it or not,
“sight words account for up to 75% of the words used in beginning children’s
printed material”, according to Study to
Identify High-Frequency Words in Printed Materials, by D.J. Kear &
M.A. Gladhart. There are different sight words for every grade level. Each
set of words builds upon the other, meaning that once your child learns the
sight words in Kindergarten, he will be expected to still recognize those words
as he learns new words in first grade, and so forth.
✅Practicing Dolch Sight Words
💥Introduce Dolch
new sight words in isolation,💥Use familiar books and identify new and old Dolch sight words in text
💥Schedule daily Dolch sight word instruction, but keep it short under 10 minutes
✅Here are some resources for Dolch Sight Words:
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