The purpose of this resource is to allow students to practice the following skills:

•sight word recognition and fluency

•listening to sounds in a word

•write the sounds heard in a word

•Reading the focus sight word

•Decoding words that students first encoded.

This book's focus sight word: CAN

The words that students encode and decode are:

• zip

• dip

• dig

• hit

• rip

• sit

How I use this book in my classroom:

First, I introduce the sight word . We build it with tiles, magnets or we write it on our whiteboard. We play a mix and fix game and identify missing letters in the word. When finished, we go through each page to encode our words. Students use the elkonin boxes to help themselves hear the sounds and identify letter order. Afterwards, we discuss the sound one by one and students write the letters in the boxes. Afterwards, the students read their word. We do this with each page. Then, when students reach the decodable portion of their book, they are familiar with how to segment the sounds because they have already worked with the words before reading. When we finish, students write a sentence using the sight word and a word that they have already written.

You can find more sight word books by clicking the link below:

Sight Word Books