Sight Word List Sorted by Phonics...

Say “goodbye” to the old way of teaching sight words and “hello” to the brain-friendly way that’s guaranteed to boost students’ learning

Are you teaching sight words by how frequently they appear in text and not seeing big results with your students? If you’re ready for a better way to teach sight words, these pre-sorted lists are for you. 

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It’s true! When you take your sight word list and organize it by phonics skill, students learn the words faster…

You see, old school lists like Dolch and Fry were sorted by the frequency words appear in text. For instance, THE is written most often so it’s the first word students practice.

The philosophy isn’t terrible – if a child is going to read THE more than any other word, it makes sense that learning it first would come in handy.

The problem is that when we teach sight words, THE is often taught right alongside other words that follow completely different phonics rules: OF, AND, A…

And that means kids have to wrap their brains around:

– the short A sound in AND,
– the long A sound in A,
– the F that makes a V sound in OF,
– and (as if that wasn’t enough!) the two letters T & H that make just one sound in THE.

It’s no wonder that so many students struggle with sight word lists!

But there is a *much* easier way! Instead of teaching sight words by frequency, we can sort them by phonics skill. Then students can master just ONE spelling rule at a time!

These print-and-go sheets make it *so easy* for you to do just that. They’re sorted by letter sounds so you can teach one phonics skill at a time.

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