Where Did Sight Word 60 Come From?
And thus was born Sight Word 60 and yes, Sight Word 60 IS aligned to the science of reading.
What Is Sight Word 60?
The premise of Sight Word 60 is that in the course of a school week, 5 days, students get more than 60 exposures to each sight word and that happens in just a few minutes each day. No long lessons. A few high-impact, engaging minutes to teach sight words. Plus students also get practice decoding the words so they’re getting mulitple tools and strategies for being good readers.
YES! Decoding sight words is possible and should be used along with automaticity. It’s also important to bring orthographic mapping into your sight word routine. All this said, sight words aren’t bad. Teaching automaticity with sight words isn’t bad. What’s important to remember is to teach multiple strategies and provide all the tools to read and write.
Sight Word 60 works with any sight word list. Dolch. Fry. And if your district is like mine, we have our own list that changes frequently (and by frequently it depends on who you ask because when you ask different people you get a different list…but that’s beside the point…). My district requires our kindergarten students to master 100 words.
How Does Sight Word 60 Work?
Day 1 is introducing the words.
Sentences: Sight Word 60 Day 2
Sentences: Sight Word 60 Day 3
Sight Word Grids: Sight Word 60 Day 4
Games: Sight Word 60 Day 5
Our Sight Word 60 Creation has all the detailed instrucstion for each day compiled in one place for you, plus templates, word cards, parent letter, games/activites and more! It’s available on TPT & in the TKS Store.
These sight word resources support independent and small group practice with sight words all year long!
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26 comments
Love your video!! I got the Big Word app that you recommended. Did you just take a picture of the word and use the words in your camera roll so that you could flip through them?
Do you always capitalize the first letter? I was just wondering. Thanks for sharing! Becky
We do the same review but I make a video of the words they decorated. We then say the word, spell the word, and say the word. They love it.
Check it out
I just started sight word 60 this week and I am loving it. My students are too! Thanks for always having such amazing ideas!
Amanda 🙂
Mrs. Pauley’s Kindergarten
That is just the way the app works….sometimes I forget to make them lower case!
Yes!
I have read about how you do sight words before but the video makes it so much better! Thanks for this series of posts!!
GENIUS!
I absolutely loved your monster shape activity. It is very educational and engaging. Thanks for sharing.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU… for sharing your Sight Word 60 program. I started implementing it as soon as you shared it in March and I have seen amazing results. Cannot wait to start off next school year with this!
Hi!
I have tried to download Big Words to my Ipad, but I do not seem to find it. Can you show me the icon of the app? Thank you for sharing all this with all of us!!
Eeekk….I don’t the ability to show a picture here in the comments. Wish I could. I just know it is called Big Words
Where do I find days 2-5 for the sight word 60?
Hi Jessi!
Just search for Sight Word 60 in the search bar and they will all come up!
Are there sight word grids for first grade? I would love to use them in my classroom. Thanks! Trisha
They are for Kindergarten but they are editable so you can make your own! 😉
Hello, I am having trouble finding the editable sight word 60 grid. Any tips? Thank you!
It’s in the Resource Center!
Hello! So I started a version of sight word 60 this January so it fits our schedule and curriculum. I have to present my research from this little project and was wondering if you have any suggestions for “data” and outside articles I could use for my principal.
I would love to see how you do week four review of all the words. Do you have a post if it somewhere?
There are links to each of the 5 days of Sight Word 60 included. Refer back to this blog post. 😉
Hi! Do you have the List of the order in which you present your sight words? I LOVE the grids but can tell which is for the first week, second week and so on? I have followed you guys for years and purchased so many of your products!! Thanks for being awesome!!!
You can see them in my Big Picture. You can find the link at the bottom of the Resource Center.
When do you start Sight Word 60?
Usually the 2nd week of school but this year, I’ve decided to wait until we come back to in-person teaching in October before I start.
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