cmccarthy writes: Some of the best sight words for Kindergarten students to know are the eight basic color words: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown, and black. They are so useful because when known, they help children successfully and independently complete work.
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amontoya12 writes: My son is also in kinder and I am teaching him the sight words at home too to help him better memorize them. Sight words are also words that they memorize by just seeing them and remembering their pronunciation, such as I, see, and, me, my, to, a like, play, the, she, he. My son's teacher said once they know these words they will begin reading books in which most of the sentences contain at least 2 or more of these words -in conjunction with the names of colors which he has already learned. This is their method in how to start teaching them to read.
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Letter Box writes: Hi,
There is a difference between sight words and high frequency words. Sight words are those that can only be learnt by remembering them visually e.g."the". High frequency words are those that comprise 8o% of words that are read. Some of these words can be sounded.
There are some FREE high frequency words for Kindergarten children at www.letterboxlearntoread.com
Good luck