but there is no reason for a kindergartner to have to learn 220 sight words by the end of kindergarten, yet only be expected to reach a reading level of C or D! It just doesn’t match up! ( and I’m sure there are critics on this!)…. The range of numbers varied greatly, anywhere from 25 to 220 for KINDERGARTEN…. Recently I went to my Facebook page and asked teachers how many sight words their students are expected to know by the end of the school year. In a nutshell – we need AT LEAST 4-5 exposures a day if not more for our students to see and use a sight word to expect any type of mastery. are you exposing your students to a sight word 20 times before you move on or expect mastery? Even if you only expose one time a day…. research tells us that students (and even some adults!) need AT LEAST 20 exposures to something before it goes into their working memory! TWENTY! So think about your sight word exposures in your classroom…. So why do so many students struggle with identifying these words? and 95% of the words within a Level A-C leveled book… is a SIGHT WORD… that’s a pretty high percentage if you ask me! It’s no wonder that we really need our students to master these words! that 89% of our oral and written language is SIGHT WORDS?! It’s true….
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