{"id":1440,"date":"2013-09-13T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2016-01-18T20:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T01:55:02","slug":"sight-word-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/sight-word-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Sight Word Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honeybun’s only homework for September is learning 101 sight words.\u00a0 Some of them she learned last year in Pre-K and a few of them she\u2019s learned at school but the majority of the \u201cteaching\u201d is falling on me.<\/p>\n

The teacher broke the list into 5 different groups of 10-31 words per list.\u00a0 When Honeybun learns each word on a list, I sign it and send it back and if she can read them all to her teacher, she gets to pick from the \u201ctreasure box\u201d (oh the treasure box\u2026that\u2019s a post for another day!)<\/p>\n

The trick, though, is she has to be able to read them out of order since she\u2019s supposed to be learning them in order to be able to read them in books, etc.\u00a0 Honeybun is they type that memorizes entire books after reading a few times so I knew having her read the words off the list would cause her to learn the words by order rather than actually reading them so I decided to make flash cards for her.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>Usually I\u2019m not a big fan of flash cards and drill or rote learning, but in certain situations like sight words and multiplication tables, you have to just memorize and flash cards are great for that. \u00a0I did each list on a separate color of cardstock and we have been working through one color at a time until she knows all of them and can go read them to her teacher. \u00a0So far she’s learned the first 31 words and knows almost all of the 2nd 20 (after only 1 day!)<\/p>\n

But the flash cards have become not just a tool for memorizing the words but we\u2019ve actually turned them into an additional game of sentence making. \u00a0We take her school sight words and a few I\u2019ve added (mostly nouns which are not very plentiful in her sight words) and take turns making sentences.\u00a0 It helps her learn basic grammar and sentence structure and I\u2019ve actually enjoyed trying to make the longest sentences I can (26 words is my top right now using only her 1st<\/sup> 31 sight words and my nouns) and then having her read them.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a great way to teach her in a way that doesn\u2019t feel like work to her and it\u2019s something we both really enjoy.<\/p>\n

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\"SONY<\/a>My long sentence and Honeybun’s sentence (“at” is on the second list and she specifically asked for it when we were working sentences with her first set)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honeybun’s only homework for September is learning 101 sight words.\u00a0 Some of them she learned last year in Pre-K and a few of them she\u2019s learned at school but the majority of the \u201cteaching\u201d is falling on me. The teacher broke the list into 5 different groups of 10-31 words per list.\u00a0 When Honeybun learns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}