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Reminder: Check out page 180 in your Seeing Stars manual for more games and activities, or make up your own! The key is repetition and practice. Reshuffle the cards and create a new word-ladder. Then try it again, but this time put each word to sleep by turning the card over as they climb up or down. Starting at the bottom, have the student touch and say each word as they climb up. Line up seven to ten sight words vertically to create your word-ladder. The Up and Down the Word-Ladder activity is a fun way to engage students for additional practice.

Repetition and Practice-Repetition is critical for sight words to truly become automatic.

Teacher: “Great job! And what letter do you see right after the ‘I’?” Teacher: “Write the letters in the air and say the letters as you write them. This is especially helpful for words that don’t play fair, meaning they are not phonetically consistent (e.g.

Use Symbol Imagery Exercises-Reinforce word recognition by using strategies such as air-writing the word or identifying specific letters, all from visual memory.

Repetitively practice words each day, graduating words from Slow to Medium to Fast groups, until each word is memorized for instant recognition. Write each word on an index card and categorize cards into Slow, Medium, and Fast groups.

Capture, Categorize, and Memorize-Scan the list with your student and capture words that aren’t instantly read.

Here are three helpful tips for an effective sight word practice lesson: If you are using the Seeing Stars® program, use the Star Words List. Or you can select something like the Dolch Word List. Choose a high-frequency word list to get started. Students need extensive practice to acquire a substantial sight word vocabulary (words that are recognized by sight, not decoded).

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