Sight word vocabulary

Sightwords. com is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early child literacy. This collection of resources is designed to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. We combine the latest literacy research with decades of teaching experience to bring you the best methods of instruction to make teaching easier, more effective, and more fun.

Sight words build speed and fluency when reading. Accuracy, speed, and fluency in reading increase reading comprehension. The sight words are a collection of words that a child should learn to recognize without sounding out the letters. The sight words are both common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build a vocabulary. Combining sight words with phonics instruction increases a child’s speed and fluency in reading.

This website includes a detailed curriculum outline to give you an overview of how the individual lessons fit together.  It provides detailed instructions and techniques to show you how to teach the material and how to help a child overcome common roadblocks. It also includes free teaching aids, games, and other materials that you can download and use with your lessons.

Many of the teaching techniques and games include variations for making the lesson more challenging for advanced students, easier for new or struggling students, and just different for a bit of variety. There are also plenty of opportunities, built into the lessons and games, to observe and assess the child’s retention of the sight words. We encourage you to use these opportunities to check up on the progress of your student and identify weaknesses before they become real problems.

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Poor, age-inappropriate vocabulary

Some parents whose children are already in school have received complaints from teachers that their children have a rather poor vocabulary that is not appropriate for their age.

A child's vocabulary is mainly formed in the family and is finally formed by the age of 6-7. If this does not happen, parents will have to deal with replenishing the vocabulary and developing the thinking of their baby along with specialists.

Your child may know a large number of words, and if asked, he will easily explain their meaning. However, this is a passive rather than an active vocabulary (lexicon).

Often the problem lies in insufficient reading, lack of sociability or, on the contrary, excessive activity of the child and his tendency to intercept words from youth slang.

Common problems of all toddlers and some adolescents with poor vocabulary are:

• Frequent use of interjections and pronouns;
• The words "parasites";
• Gestures that replace words.

Children who have difficulty expressing their thoughts begin to imitate others, as a result of which they learn not the best vocabulary.

Poor vocabulary provokes an inaccurate understanding of the meanings of many words. There is nothing for such children to select test words from, so they often make mistakes when writing.

Deviations in the development of the vocabulary usually do not disappear on their own and require special attention not only from adults, but also from doctors.

Speech therapists from the Medicenter clinic network will help develop the child's vocabulary. The center's specialists have extensive experience and their own methods, which allow achieving high results in enriching the vocabulary of children of all ages.

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5 exercises to develop vocabulary

How pleasant it is to listen to eloquent and competent speech when a person knows how to choose the right words and accurately describe his thought. And illiterate, “poor” speech, which is quite difficult to understand, cuts the ear just as much. It is a large vocabulary that is a sign of intellectual development and can help you in learning, working or speaking in front of a large audience.

Before starting the study of exercises to increase vocabulary, let's look at the types of vocabulary:

• Active vocabulary. These are the words that we use in everyday life when communicating with friends, family, colleagues. When writing letters, SMS in chat, social networks. When we speak, we do not think about words and do not put effort into constructing sentences.
• Passive vocabulary. These are words that we know, but do not use in conversation. As a rule, the passive reserve can be 2-3 times greater than the active one. On occasion, we can search in our head and find the right words, but we do this very rarely.
• External vocabulary. These are words we don't know. Usually these are specific words from the professional field of activity.

It is rather difficult to set clear boundaries in the vocabulary. Children's vocabulary can average 1000 words, adults have 10 times more. Erudite people who are constantly engaged in self-development, read a lot of books and constantly study, have a vocabulary of up to 50,000 words. Therefore, we have selected such universal exercises to expand the active vocabulary that schoolchildren, students or specialists can perform.

1. Alphabet exercise. You need to come up with a sentence in which all words will begin with the next letter of the alphabet. Example: "Alina runs in the thick of trees." Try to make long sentences using words from A to Z.
2. Noun exercise. Make up a story and tell it using only nouns. "Morning. Water. Walk. Dog. Tea. Breakfast. Underground. Job. Meeting. Tasks. Dinner."
3. Exercise "Verbs". Repeat the previous exercise, only using verbs instead of nouns.
4. Exercise "Adjectives and adverbs". Also invent a story, just voice it now with the help of adjectives and adverbs.

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