Your child will be working in small ability level reading groups throughout the year to ensure they learn the skills necessary for reading. Sight words are one of the essential skills for building reading fluency. Rainbow Word Club is a system of organizing and learning the high frequency/sight words for kindergarten by the end of the school year. All students will start with a star next to the sight word rainbow. Once a week, students will have an opportunity to test into the next club (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, silver and gold). In order to move to the next sight word club, they must read all words from that club in random order and without hesitation. The words in each club build upon each other, so please wait to start new list until you have heard from the teacher that your child has mastered the previous list. We will be testing every Friday! Students will be introduced to the words on the first eight lists at school. Please support your son/daughter at home by practicing them daily! Below you can find a list of ideas to help them learn the words.
Flashcard Games:1. Can you find? Lay cards on table, face up. Ask the student to find a given word. If they find it, they keep it. Keep going until all cards are picked up. 2. Who has more? Flash cards to student. If they read the word within 5 seconds, they keep the card. If not, you keep the card. The goal is that the child has more than you at the end of the game. 3. Concentration Using double copies of the words, take turns turning over two cards at a time, trying to make a match. The player must read the word correctly to get the match. 4. Go Fish Using double copies of the words, pass out all but 5-6 of the words. Put these in a stack, face down, on the table. Look for matches in your set of cards (each player must be able to read the word or the set goes in the stack on the table). Take turns asking each other for cards to make matches. The person with the most matches at the end is the winner. 5. BINGO Draw a simple Bingo card (5 boxes wide and 5 high) and put sight words in the boxes. You may need to repeat words to have 25 words. On little slips of paper put the locations (B1 etc.). Draw a slip and if the child can read the word in the box they get to put a token in the corresponding box on his BINGO card. If he can’t read it, you get to put a token in your corresponding box. The winner is the person who gets 5 boxes in a row.
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Reading/Writing Connection
Fun ways for your child to write his sight words.
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