using word mats to promote orthographic mapping
Let’s chat about orthographic mapping today. Read the following words: dog, and, ocean, beautiful, story, significance. Could you do this quickly and without conscious effort? If…
Sight Words
Visual Discrimination and Word Recognition
Visual discrimination and word recognition can often go hand-in-hand when it comes to sight words and words with similar spellings. Before we explore this connection, we…
Word Work Ideas for Sight Word Spelling
In this post, I’m going to share TWENTY word work ideas for sight word practice in your classroom. Before I begin the fun, I want to…
Three Ways to Help Students Who Struggle With Sight Words
If you are a primary teacher, you can probably think of a student in your classroom who struggles with sight word identification. In fact, most teachers can…
Teach, Create, and Engage with Oriental Trading!
When Oriental Trading asked if they could send some goodies to review for the classroom, I was so very excited! I have been shopping with Oriental…
Assessing and Differentiating Sight Word Recognition
Sight words. Sight words. Sight words. As a primary teacher, how many times a week do you think about sight words? I don’t know about you,…