Teaching the Dolch Sight Word List…the Easy Way!
Grades / Année(s) scolaire(s) :
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What if you only had to teach 20 sight words from the Dolch list? Guess what? You can–because the other 200 words are completely decodable.
Curriculum Connection / Connexion au programme-cadre
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This video supports the teaching and learning of words with irregularities. Many high frequency words are taught as whole units, while most are fully or partially decodable.
This clearly shows how most heart words are temporary, thank you for such a clear explanation.
One of those if only I had recognized this, or better yet been taught this, at the beginning of my career!
I remember teaching the Dolch list years ago and either saying “actually, you can sound this one out”, or “this one you need to memorize”.
Great resource that you found here to illustrate the Dolch word list and the decodability of the words. I wonder if they are still the same ‘most used’ words shred/read/tested in Ontario schools today?
This video clearly illustrates how few words on the Dolch list are truly irregular.
The visual of the different regular words being removed as students learn the rule is wonderful. Not many words are truly decodable.