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It’s one of the first words your child needs to read: the. Use these sight word the worksheets to make learning this word easy and interactive.
When children begin to read sentences, they need to know this word:
- the
And it’s not really an easy word for an early reader. Fortunately, you can teach it to your child or students in a way that will stick.
These sight word the worksheets help make the word stick.
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Sight Word The Worksheets
You can grab these three free worksheets for the sight word “the:”
- Mapping “the” worksheet
- Writing the worksheet
- Dot the worksheet
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Sight Words Vs. High-Frequency Words
When people say sight words, they generally mean high-frequency words.
In reality, a sight word is ANY word you can read instantly. If you can read establishment and disembark without sounding them out, those are sight words for you.
Your brain used a process called orthographic mapping to connect the sounds to letters.
High-frequency words are those little functional words that are essential in sentences like:
- the,
- of,
- has,
- and,
- were.
I still call them sight words because that seems to make the most sense to my students and their parents. But just know that every word has the capacity to be a sight word.
Can you sound out the word the?
Here’s the truth: at least 60% of sight words, or high-frequency words, are completely decodable with phonics.
This means your child doesn’t need to memorize them.
It’s way more efficient to spend time teaching letter sounds and letting them practice blending words than to memorize those words.
But even the word “the” can be sounded out!
- th spells the voiced /th/ sound spelled with digraph th
- e spells the /uh/ sound commonly called schwa
The problem is this:
- most teachers and parents didn’t get taught enough about English to know this.
- children need to learn “the” before digraphs and schwa are normally taught.
But you can still introduce these ideas to your child so they understand that words can be sounded out, or decoded.
Which Sight Words Should I teach First?
That depends! There is not a lot of research about teaching sight words in any particular order. Instead, there are theories and various programs.
Personally, I want my kindergarten reading students to read decodable texts as soon as possible.
In order to do that, they need to learn a handful of sounds and some sight words.
Reading Rockets states that about 10-15 sight words should taught prior to phonics instruction. However, I teach them alongside phonics and help my students learn the decodable parts.
The words I recommend be taught early and reviewed often are:
- the
- a
- I
- was
- is
- and
- for
- you
- to
Mapping the Sight Word The Worksheet
This worksheet is very helpful for teaching your child about the sounds in the word “the.”
It promotes a process called orthographic mapping. Instead of memorizing, your child’s brain is connecting speech sounds to print. It truly is the brain-based way to read.
These important steps are not on the worksheet:
- Say the word “the” aloud for your child or student to hear.
- Ask them to repeat the word.
It is critical your child says and hears the word.
Do not overlook this step.
Then you follow the steps on the worksheet:
- Count the sounds
- Map the letters that spell the sounds
- Spell the word twice
- Read the word
Count the sounds
After you have said the word “the” aloud, you will count the sounds. The has two sounds: /th/ and /uh/.
You instruct your child to color in two thumbs. Then they can point to each thumb and repeat the sounds /th/ and /uh/.
Map the letters
Next, you will map the letters that spell those sounds in the boxes. I like to color code at this point with a red, yellow, and green crayon or marker.
On a worksheet, a whiteboard, or a scrap of paper, model the mapping for your child.
In the first box, write the spelling th for the /th/ sound. You can color code it green because this is a typical spelling.
Your child probably hasn’t learned it yet. So explain that th spells the /th/ sound.
In the second box, write the spelling e for the /uh/ sound.
You can color code with a red crayon.
The schwa sound is the most common vowel sound in English! It’s a lazy /uh/ or /ih/ and usually is in a multi-syllable word. You can tell your child this is the part they will need to remember since it isn’t a normal spelling.
Write the word
After that, your child will spell or write the word on the two sets of lines.
You might think, “My child already wrote the letters, why do they need to rewrite it?”
Great question.
Writing it together as a whole word is one more way to solidify it in permanent memory. Plus, your child needs to see the letters together.
Read the word
Finally, make sure your child reads the word. Again, you might think, “What’s the point?”
Every opportunity they have to connect the sounds to the letters at this point is important.
Reading it gives them the chance to map the word in their memory so they can retrieve it instantly.
Color Coding Sight Word
I am a huge proponent of color-coding sight words.
Color coding is an evidence-based strategy for aiding memory. I think it helps recall the easy and hard parts more quickly.
When color coding, I used red, green, and yellow. Children can all associate with the stoplight colors:
- Green means go
- Yellow means slow down
- Red means stop.
In sight words, I say:
- Green is a completely typical spelling for the sound,
- Yellow is for more advanced spellings my child or students haven’t learned yet, and
- Red is for unexpected and irregular spellings for the sound
As I mentioned above, the is two sounds:
- /th/ spelled th
- /uh/ spelled e
You can color-code the word the sound-spellings
- Green for th because it is typical for /th/
- Red for e because it’s unexpected for /uh/
Spelling Sight Words Worksheet
After mapping a word, it’s good to give children a lot of practice applying how to write the word.
This sight word worksheet allows your child to:
- color code the word
- trace the word
- write the word
- fill-in-the blanks to sentences
- write their own sentence
Writing the word in context improves recall. Our brains need to connect letters to sounds, and then the word to meaning. So using context helps with this piece.
Sight Word The Reading Worksheet
Along with writing the sight word the, I want my children and students to have to practice reading it.
In this Dot the Sight Word Worksheet, your child:
- Color codes the word the
- Reads the words in the circles
- Dabs the circles with “the” with a Do-a-Dot Markers
Supplies for Sight Word Worksheets
You only need a few supplies for these worksheets, and you probably already have them at home!
- Do-a-Dot markers
- Crayons, markers, and/or colored pencils
- Pencils
- Paper
- Printer
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Sight Word the Worksheets
Make sure to download these free worksheets today. Your child and you will be reading and spelling the word the in no time.
More Sight Word Worksheets
All of the worksheets in this free sight word download are samples from a variety of sight word printables in the Printable Parents’ Shop.
Mapping Sight Words Worksheets
This bundle of worksheets includes sight words with short vowels like has and his and words with digraphs like what and them. Like demonstrated above, your child will map, color code, read and write the sights words on these interactive worksheets.
It includes 78 words with over 120 pages of practice. Grab Mapping the Sight Words here or find it on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Read, Spell, and Write Sight Words Worksheets
This comprehensive resource will get your child reading, writing, and spelling their sight words. It includes all 220 of the Dolch sight word list.
Like modeled above, children will:
- Read and color code a word
- Trace the word
- Spell it on the lines
- Complete two sentences using the words
- Create a sentence of their own.
It has 343 pages of skill-building for your young reader and writer. Get Read, Spell, and Write the Sight Words in the shop.
Dab and Dot the Sight Words
This resource is a steal for what you get. All 220 of the Dolch sight words are broken into 11 lists of 20 words. You can bind them with an optional cover to make a little workbook for your child.
You can use Do-A-Dot Markers to dab the circles or just color with crayons or markers. Make sure to color code the bubble lights like demonstrated above.
Grab Dot the Sight Words here or on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Sight Words Teaching Strategy | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read
A child sees the word on the flash card and says the word while underlining it with her finger.
The child says the word and spells out the letters, then reads the word again.
The child says the word and then spells out the letters while tapping them on her arm.
A child says the word, then writes the letters in the air in front of the flash card.
A child writes the letters on a table, first looking at and then not looking at the flash card.
Correct a child’s mistake by clearly stating and reinforcing the right word several times.
- Overview
- Plan a Lesson
- Teaching Techniques
- Correcting Mistakes
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Questions and Answers
Sight words instruction is an excellent supplement to phonics instruction.
Phonics is a method for learning to read in general, while sight words instruction increases a child’s familiarity with the high frequency words he will encounter most often.
Use lesson time to introduce up to three new words, and use game time to practice the new words.
A sight words instruction session should be about 30 minutes long, divided into two components:
- Sight Words Lesson — Use our Teaching Techniques to introduce new words and to review words from previous lessons — 10 minutes
- Sight Words Games — Use our games to provide reinforcement of the lesson and some review of already mastered sight words to help your child develop speed and fluency — 20 minutes
Video: Introduction to Teaching Sight Words
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1 Introduce New Words
When first beginning sight words, work on no more than three unfamiliar words at a time to make it manageable for your child. Introduce one word at a time, using the five teaching techniques. Hold up the flash card for the first word, and go through all five techniques, in order. Then introduce the second word, and go through all five teaching techniques, and so on.
This lesson should establish basic familiarity with the new words. This part of a sight words session should be brisk and last no more than ten minutes. As your child gets more advanced, you might increase the number of words you work on in each lesson.
2.2 Review Old Words
Begin each subsequent lesson by reviewing words from the previous lesson. Words often need to be covered a few times for the child to fully internalize them. Remember: solid knowledge of a few words is better than weak knowledge of a lot of words!
Go through the See & Say exercise for each of the review words.
If your child struggles to recognize a word, cover that word again in the main lesson, going through all five teaching techniques. If he has trouble with more than two of the review words, then set aside the new words you were planning to introduce and devote that day’s lesson to review.
Note: The child should have a good grasp of — but does not need to have completely mastered — a word before it gets replaced in your lesson plan. Use your game time to provide lots of repetition for these words until the child has thoroughly mastered them.
2.3 Reinforce with Games
Learning sight words takes lots of repetition. We have numerous sight words games that will make that repetition fun and entertaining for you and your child.
The games are of course the most entertaining part of the sight words program, but they need to wait until after the first part of the sight words lesson.
Games reinforce what the lesson teaches.
Do not use games to introduce new words.
NOTE: Be sure the child has a pretty good grasp of a sight word before using it in a game, especially if you are working with a group of children. You do not want one child to be regularly embarrassed in front of his classmates when he struggles with words the others have already mastered!
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Introduce new sight words using this sequence of five teaching techniques:
- See & Say — A child sees the word on the flash card and says the word while underlining it with her finger.
- Spell Reading — The child says the word and spells out the letters, then reads the word again.
- Arm Tapping — The child says the word and then spells out the letters while tapping them on his arm, then reads the word again.
- Air Writing — A child says the word, then writes the letters in the air in front of the flash card.
- Table Writing — A child writes the letters on a table, first looking at and then not looking at the flash card.
These techniques work together to activate different parts of the brain. The exercises combine many repetitions of the word (seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing) with physical movements that focus the child’s attention and cement each word into the child’s long-term memory.
The lessons get the child up to a baseline level of competence that is then reinforced by the games, which take them up to the level of mastery. All you need is a flash card for each of the sight words you are covering in the lesson.
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Of course, every child will make mistakes in the process of learning sight words. They might get confused between similar-looking words or struggle to remember phonetically irregular words.
Use our Corrections Procedure every time your child makes a mistake in a sight words lesson or game.
Simple and straightforward, it focuses on reinforcing the correct identification and pronunciation of the word. It can be done quickly without disrupting the flow of the activity.
Do not scold the child for making a mistake or even repeat the incorrect word. Just reinforce the correct word using our script, and then move on.
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Q: Progress is slow. We have been on the same five words for a week!
A: It is not unusual to have to repeat the same set of words several times, especially in the first weeks of sight words instruction. The child is learning how to learn the words and is developing pattern recognition approaches that will speed his progress. Give him time to grow confident with his current set of words, and avoid overwhelming the child with new words when he hasn’t yet become familiar with the old words.
Q: Do I really need to do all five techniques for every word?
A: Start out by using all five techniques with each new word.
The techniques use different teaching methods and physical senses to support and reinforce the child’s memorization of the word. After a few weeks of lessons, you will have a sense for how long it takes your child to learn new words and whether all five exercises are necessary. Start by eliminating the last activity, Table Writing, but be sure to review those words at the next lesson to see if the child actually retained them without that last exercise. If the child learns fine without Table Writing, then you can try leaving out the fourth technique, Air Writing. Children who learn quickly may only need to use two or three of the techniques.
Q: How long will it take to get through a whole word list? I want my child to learn ALL the words!!!
A: That depends on a number of factors, including frequency of your lessons as well as your child’s ability to focus. But do not get obsessed with the idea of racing through the word lists to the finish line.
It is much, much better for your child to solidly know just 50 words than to “kind of” know 300 words. We are building a foundation here, and we want that foundation to be made of rock, not sand!
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VISUAL - What is VISUAL?
The word consists of 10 letters: first in, second and, third s, fourth y, fifth a, sixth l, seventh b, eighth n, ninth s, last th,
The word visual in English letters (transliteration) - vizalnyi
- The letter occurs 1 time in . Words with 1 letter in
- The letter and occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter and
- The letter z occurs 1 time.
Words with 1 letter z - The letter in occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter y
- The letter a occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter a
- The letter l occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter l
- The letter ь occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter ь
- The letter and occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter н
- The letter ы occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter ы
- The letter and occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter y
Meanings of the word visual. What is visual?
Visual
VISUAL (from Latin visualis visual) - visible, observed with the naked eye; memory and fantasy are visual if they reproduce predominantly what is visible to the eye.
Philosophical Encyclopedia
VISUAL (from Latin visualis - visual) - visible. Visual observations - made with the naked eye or with the help of an optical instrument (eg, telescope).
Big Encyclopedic Dictionary
Visual. Pertaining to the organs of vision. Observation, imagination, representational system of vision. (See also: Representational system).
Tsenev V. Neurolinguistic Programming Dictionary
Visual novel
Visual novel (jap. ビジュアルノベル bizuaru noberu) is a genre of computer games, a subspecies of a text quest in which the viewer is shown a story by displaying text, static (or animated) images ...
en.wikipedia.org
Visual rotation
Visual turn is the transition of science to the study of the “visual”, which has replaced the “linguistic turn”. "Visual turn" in the humanities has formed a new direction...
en.wikipedia.org
Visual culture
Visual culture is an academic field of study that typically includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, and focuses on visual imagery.
en.wikipedia.org
Visual thinking
VISUAL THINKING - mental activity, which is based on the operation of visual graphs, spatially structured schemes. It is a kind of rational comprehension of the essential connections and relations of things and complements ...
Kemerov V. Philosophical Encyclopedia. - M., 1998
Visual thinking (from lat. visualis - visual) - Type of thinking. Creative solutions to problematic problems in terms of figurative modeling. The basis of visual thinking is visual-effective and visual-figurative thinking.
en.wikipedia.org..
Visual thinking - a way of creative problem solving in terms of figurative modeling. The basis of visual thinking is visual - effective - and visual - figurative thinking ...
Psychological dictionary. - 2000
VISUAL THINKING is one of the cognitive processes aimed at information preparation and decision making. V. m. is carried out through either purposeful actions or unconscious operations, such as manipulating images ...
Labor psychology. - 2005
VISUAL THINKING - a type of human activity, the result of which is the creation of new images, new visual forms that carry a certain semantic load and make the meanings visible.
Dictionary of museum and pedagogical terms.- 2007
VISUAL LITERACY
VISUAL LITERACY (English visual literacy), direction in modern. pedagogy, which studies the problems of developing skills in the use of visual and audiovisual information.
Russian Pedagogical Encyclopedia / Ed. V.G. Panov. - 1993
Visual psychodiagnostics
VISUAL PSYCHODIAGNOSIS (VPD) is a new and relatively independent branch of psychology, the task of which is to study important characteristics of a person’s behavior and appearance in order to penetrate into the inner psychological content of a person and ...
Labor psychology. - 2005
Visual psychodiagnostics - a branch of psychodiagnostics based on the study of the external characteristics and appearance of a person in order to penetrate into the inner psychological content of the personality.
glossary.ru
Visual Flight Rules
Visual flight rules, VFR (English Visual flight rules, VFR) - a set of aviation rules and instructions that provide for crew orientation and maintaining safe intervals by visual observation of the natural line ...
en.wikipedia.org
Visual thinking
VISUAL THINKING (English visual thinking). 1. A way to solve intellectual problems based on internal visual images (preface, imagination).
Large psychological dictionary. - 2004
Visual thinking is a way of solving "intellectual problems based on internal" visual images; kind of thinking, the product of which is the generation of new images, the creation of new visual forms ...
Karmanov A.Psychological Dictionary
Russian
Visual; cr. f. - flax, - flax.
Spelling dictionary. — 2004
Examples of the use of the word visual
The visual image for the advertising campaign was developed by an agency from Yekaterinburg.
Having retained the former name, the bank changed its visual image and positioning in the market.
The effect of it, however, was much more noise than visual.
All the main elements are brought to a single form, which creates a kind of visual ensemble from them.
This is support for building Windows 8-style applications, as well as the Visual LiveBindings visual designer.
The visuals have always been the most important, if not the defining component in this seemingly musical competition.
The results of their research are published in the scientific journal Current Biology.
The visual test was tested on volunteers.
- Words from the word "visual"
- Words starting with "c"
- Words starting with "vi"
- Words ending in "y"
- Words with "th" at the end
- Words starting with "vis"
- Words starting with "visa"
- Words ending with "ny"
- Words ending with "y"
- visa
- visor
- visualization
- visual
- wicalloy
- vicariate
- vicar
What does visual mean - Meanings of words
visual in the crossword dictionary
visual
- Visible effect observed by sight
Dictionary of medical terms
visual (lat.
visualis visual)
perceived or produced by sight.
Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov
visual
visual, visual (Latin visualis - visual) (astro). Produced by the naked eye or the naked eye, not by photography. visual observations.
Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova.
visual
th, th; - flax, - flax (special). Pertaining to direct visual perception (with the naked or armed eye). visual observation. B. signal.
n. visuality, -i, f.
New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T.
F. Efremova. visual
adj. Visually observable, visible to the naked eye or with the help of an optical device.
Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998
visual
VISUAL (from Latin visualis - visual) visible. Visual observations - made with the naked eye or with the help of an optical instrument (eg, telescope).
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Examples of the use of the word visual in the literature.
While dismounting, Aaron usually experienced a visual hallucination where a geometric pattern of thin curved lines appeared among the flickering lights in front of his eyes.
Adjutant Donskoy was happy, who visually observed all the thorns of the general's fate and wished himself that this cup would pass him by.
This tendency towards allegory is beautifully reflected in Renaissance books on iconology, containing collections of various visual images and models.
Belonging to the visual sphere, anamorphosis in a strange way introduces into it a kind of visible equivalent of tactility, it seems to imply the feeling of an object from all sides.
Then there was lunch, then Langner spent an hour with astrographs and made visual observations of the starry sky.
Since a convenient exit route to the area where Sheikh Abu Bakr is located is close to the base, its reconnaissance and visual detection will help to obtain accurate coordinates.
I will discreetly integrate them into the lighting system, thus giving Boz the ability to visually observe, albeit with a very limited field of view.
So, returning to Vercingetorix, in this statue the traditional elements will be radically reversed, and this undeniable plastic and visual innovation, according to Marrast, will express the dynamic interpretation of the Gallic hero, who will, like a tree trunk, grow out of the ground in the very center of the Arqueil Square holding in both hands, instead of the infinitely vulgar sword and shield, so convenient for pigeons, the main volume of the block, and thus by means of sculpture, at the same time, the traditional discrepancy between the hidden and visible parts of the iceberg will be inverted, which Marrast always seemed to be a symbol of the evil deceit of nature, and , although there is very little in common between the iceberg and the hero of Alesia, the collective subconscious will surely receive a strong shock through the underlying channels, and in terms of aesthetics, a pleasant surprise at the sight of a statue that raises to heaven the heaviest and most boring part of itself, the inert matter of existence, directing to azure its dirty, deplorable foundation in true ge roic transformation.
Moreover, in the clouds, beyond the visibility of any visual landmarks, they are captured even more subtle by the vestibular apparatus, and the lack of visual information frightens even more.
Malyshka's reconstruction, in fact, only the body and some electronic systems remained, in particular the visual masking system, thanks to which Vivien managed to hide the trophy from the police and thereby defend her right to the prize.
Although visually cheap and culturally specific, a real journey to Hades means eternal pain.
The eye-consciousness or visual perception of the rootless moral consciousness of the realm of the senses, accompanied by hedonistic indifference, arises in the field of the organ of vision, which has a beneficent visible object and receives light as its basis immediately upon appeal to the mind element.
The eye-consciousness or visual perception of the rootless extra-moral consciousness of the sense-realm, accompanied by hedonistic indifference, arises in the field of the organ of vision, which has a beneficent visible object and receives light as its basis immediately after addressing the mind element.
