What would you suggest for learning sight words?

Learn the more phonetic ones by segmenting and sounding out.

Dr. Seuss books offer lots of practice reading them. The repeated viewing may help.

Spell verbally.

Flash cards.

Spelling the words with letter cards or magnetic letters on the fridge.

I know you said no writing, but my students loved making tar work with their spelling words. They did rainbow spelling, tracing over the word with several different color crayons. They liked experimenting with font: bubble letters, block letters, fancy letters, etc.

Sandpaper letters are expensive, but I used to write in crayon and let the children trace with their fingers. Same premise.

Clap the letters. For tall ones clap above your head, for regular letters clap out front, and for the ones that go below the line clap down by your feet. This can be modified to touch eyes, nose and mouth.

Find a way to sing the spelling of the words. Combine it with the clapping.

Make up chants, rhymes and stories.

Paint the words in the bathtub or on paper.

In the end, you know what your child likes. Take that and turn it into a learning experience.

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In my experience, as the mother of two very different sons, spelling is not something that can really be taught. Some children appear almost to be born able to spell; they have visual memories, and will just 'know' if a word is correct or not by looking at it. Teaching them to spell is pointless; they gradually build up an excellent vocabulary and spelling ability just by doing a lot of reading. You can play around with fridge magnetic letters or word games, but they'll learn as and when they're ready.

Other children are not born spellers, and will probably never be good at spelling. Teach the one phonic rule and they'll use it when it's not relevant (my non-spelling son learned the -ight words one week (right, fight, sight, etc) and then wrote 'kite' as 'kight' and other similar errors. It was a losing battle. Spelling tests made him very stressed, and attempts to teach sight words left him in tears.

What worked, in the end, was to ignore spelling errors, to consider the content of his writing rather than the detail, and also to encourage him to use a word processor with automatic spell-checking switched on. The immediate feedback of a wiggly red line, followed by options of correct possible words was the single thing that helped him move from being a very bad speller to an average (though never great) speller. As an adult he (along with many others I know) still spells some words phonetically, and mixes up many confusing endings (-ible/-able for instance).

It's okay. Some people have a good sense of direction - that's not something that can be taught. Some have a good sense of time. And some have a good sense of how to spell.

I just like the phrase Wall suggestion. You publish one phrase at a time on a wall and proceed so as to add words headquartered on what you suppose the potential degree of the baby is. At any time when you overview words by simply reading the phrases on the wall and having the baby repeat them except he can do it on his possess. It is primary to go away those phrases up for fairly a at the same time as you add to the record to additional increase retention. That you would be able to even google phrase Wall for a lot of exclusive methods to display the words. So, as you instructed, the baby does no longer need to write the words. For spelling, you would have the child shut his eyes or flip away and take a look at to spell the phrases; nevertheless, i'd wait unless he mastered recognizing the words first or he could become very annoyed.

Phonics actually really helps with spelling. If they don't know how to decode new words "sight words" are much harder from just memorization. Christian Light Education has a neat tool they call a sound slider. Basically it's this slider that has consonants and consonant letter combinations on it. Then you slide the vowels through and learn to recognize them. That way when they see those combinations in words, it makes it easier to sound them out. Once they know what sounds are made by different letter combinations, they can turn it around and use the sounds to spell their words.

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Flash cards (sort them in small stacks; show them in short bursts).

Labels, labeling (books that label everything in the picture, or print up your own labels and stick them on things).

Games like "fishing" (cut out paper fish, write one word on each, put a paper clip by the mouth; tie a magnet to a string and "fish" for them... read the word with the kid).

Watching shows like Sesame Street or my kids loved the old Electric Company fromthe 70s. But basically, shows that show words on screen.

Put on closed captioning for children's shows, too.

There are computer educational games where you have to catch or hit words on the screen. It helps promote quicker recognition.

EnchantedLearning.com has a lot of good Dolch word printable worksheets that are really good.