See & Say Sight Words

for Elementary Kids

A WebQuest for First & Second Grade Reading

Introduction | Tasks | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Advice

Introduction:
This site will provide students with mastery and recognition of the basic sight words.
Also, they will build reading fluency and reading skills. Here, students will learn how to
put sight words into sentences and find sight words in puzzles. Finally, students will also
learn what sight words are and how to recognize and spell them, as well.

The Tasks:
After completing this assignment, you will be able to

• Recognize sight words.

• Pronounce sight words.
• Spell sight words.
• Use sight words in a complete sentence.

The Process:
To accomplish sight words the students must be able to recognize, spell, pronounce, and
use in complete sentences. Also, must be able to create an educational activity using
sight words.
1. In this site kids who learn these words have a good base for beginning reading. The
Dolch Words Lists and the Sight Word Box. Here, students will learn what sight words
are and how to pronounce them. Also, students will need to know how to spell all the
basic sight words.
2. This site kids will need to know how to spell the sight words. Spelling Basic Sight
Words here you will develop good teaching techniques about basic sight words. Also, if
you want to design a lesson for students who are having difficulty remembering spelling
sight words, then you will find some good techniques and strategies here.

3. This site will help build reading fluency Davis Learning

Strategies. Also, help kids ages 5-9 to focus on learning
tasks. Provides mastery and recognition of basic sight
words and build reading comprehension skills.

4. In this site you can learn how to design sight word

lessons. Reading Lessons here, you will build students
reading skills and students will learn how to find main
ideas in reading story. This will also build the students
reading comprehension skills.

5. This site Words Search Puzzles students will learn how

to find sight words in puzzles. Here students will put sight
words in sentences. Also, students will create their own
sight word puzzles.

The Evaluation:

Beginning Developing Accomplished Exemplary Score

1 2 3 4
Can Can recognize
Demonstrate Can recognize at Can recognize at
recognize at at least forty
Knowledge of Sight least twenty sight least thirty sight
least ten sight or more sight
Words words. words.
words. words.
Can Can
Can pronounce
pronounce Can pronounce pronounce and
Can pronounce and and spell at least
and spell at and spell at thirty spell at least
spell Sight Words twenty sight
least ten sight sight words. forty or more
words.
words. sight words.
Take a quiz or test 70% or 80% mastery on 90% mastery on 100% mastery
 below on the on the quiz or
on Sight Words the quiz or test. the quiz or test.
quiz or test. test.
Needs help with Needs help with at
Demonstrates Can
two or more of least one of the
knowledge of sight pronounce,
the following following
words by spell,
Has no prior spelling, spelling,
recognizing its recognize, and
knowledge of pronunciation, pronunciation,
shape, spelling, use in a
sight words. recognizing, and recognizing, and
pronunciation and complete
using in a using in a
being able to use in a sentence with
complete complete
complete sentence no help.
sentence. sentence.

Conclusion:
Students should be able to recognize, spell, pronounce, and use sight words in complete
sentences once they get to the end of this assignment. Also students should be able to
create their own sight word activity.

Credits & References:

I would like to say thanks to Dolch for the sight word lists and activities, also to Julia
Ratliff for the lessons on sight words. Furthermore, a special thanks to Dr. Lewis on a
job well done.

Teacher Advice:
This lesson is design for first and second grade level students. Also, this course is
designed to cover recognizing sight words, spelling, pronunciation, and be able to use
sight words in a sentence. For example: This lesson is design to enhance students
knowledge of basic sight words and geared toward improving reading skills.
Prior to this lesson the students will need to know what sight words are, how to
pronounce, spell, and use in a sentence correctly.

This lesson can be design as a unit lesson plan so it can cover a week or a semester. This
can be integrated as an interdisciplinary project.

When dealing with sight words, a teacher has to be prepared to teach it to students who
can and can not read, so therefore, the students can make this process easy or hard this is
determine by the teacher and the students.

This lesson can be done in class as an in-class assignment or with a group.

This lesson can be done with one or more teachers. Also, the teacher can use flash cards
to give to the students to take home to practice with.

Can refer back to the WebQuest for Internet address above in the process section.

Created by Marty Merriweather for EDU 506 @ FHU School of Education by Dr.
Bruce Lewis on November 10, 2001.