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Learn the history behind Dolch and Fry sight words, and why they are important in developing fluent readers.
Follow the sight words teaching techniques. Learn research-validated and classroom-proven ways to introduce words, reinforce learning, and correct mistakes.
Print your own sight words flash cards. Create a set of Dolch or Fry sight words flash cards, or use your own custom set of words.
Play sight words games. Make games that create fun opportunities for repetition and reinforcement of the lessons.
Sight words instruction is an excellent supplement to phonics instruction. Phonics is a method for learning to read in general, while sight words instruction increases a child’s familiarity with the high frequency words he will encounter most often.
The best way to learn sight words is through lots and lots of repetition, in the form of flashcard exercises and word-focused games.
Sight words are words that should be memorized to help a child learn to read and write. Learning sight words allows a child to recognize these words at a glance — on sight — without needing to break the words down into their individual letters and is the way strong readers recognize most words. Knowing common, or high frequency, words by sight makes reading easier and faster, because the reader does not need to stop to try and sound out each individual word, letter by letter.
Sight Words are memorized so that a child can recognize commonly used or phonetically irregular words at a glance, without needing to go letter-by-letter.
Other terms used to describe sight words include: service words , instant words (because you should recognize them instantly), snap words (because you should know them in a snap), and high frequency words . You will also hear them referred to as Dolch words or Fry words , the two most commonly used sight words lists.
Sight words are the glue that holds sentences together.
These pages contain resources to teach sight words, including: sight words flash cards , lessons , and games . If you are new to sight words , start with the teaching strategies to get a road map for teaching the material, showing you how to sequence the lessons and activities.
Sight words fall into two categories:
There are several lists of sight words that are in common use, such as Dolch, Fry, Top 150, and Core Curriculum. There is a great deal of overlap among the lists, but the Dolch sight word list is the most popular and widely used.
The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. The Dolch sight words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows the Dolch words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.
The Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Dr. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry sight word list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.
The Top 150 Written Words is the newest of the word lists featured on our site, and is commonly used by people who are learning to read English as a non-native language. This list consists of the 150 words that occur most frequently in printed English, according to the Word Frequency Book . This list is recommended by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., Professor of Learning Development at Yale University’s School of Medicine.
There are many newer variations, such as the Common Core sight words, that tweak the Dolch and Fry sight words lists to find the combination of words that is the most beneficial for reading development. Many teachers take existing sight word lists and customize them, adding words from their own classroom lessons.
Before a child starts learning sight words, it is important that he/she be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet. When prompted with a letter, the child should be able to name the letter quickly and confidently. Note that, different from learning phonics, the child does not need to know the letters’ sounds.
Before starting sight words, a child needs to be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet.
If a student’s knowledge of letter names is still shaky, it is important to spend time practicing this skill before jumping into sight words. Having a solid foundation in the ability to instantly recognize and name the alphabet letters will make teaching sight words easier and more meaningful for the child.
Go to our Lessons for proven strategies on how to teach and practice sight words with your child.
Every child is unique and will learn sight words at a different rate. A teacher may have a wide range of skill levels in the same classroom. Many of our sight words games can be adjusted to suit different skill levels.
Our sight words teaching techniques are based not only on classroom experience but also on the latest in child literacy research. Here is a bibliography of some of the research supporting our approach to sight words instruction :
Thank you for great information!
Thank you for seeking answers to reading problems some people have.
Thank you for sending the link to my mom for this website, i can’t wait to explore it more and introduce it to my kids!!
Do you break up the sight words to make it easy?
ADMIN – Hi Salex,
Yes, you will only work on a couple of new Sight Words at a time. The youngest children can only handle 2-3 new words at a time. Third graders can handle introducing 5 to 10 new words at a time.
Isn’t teaching sight words the same thing as teaching with the thoroughly discredited whole-word reading method?
ADMIN – Hi Julia,
We get strong readers teaching Sight Words in conjunction with Phonics.
If you teach only phonics, where a child is sounding out words as their only approach, you run into two problems. First, some words are phonetically irregular (such as ‘little’), and can’t be sounded out. Second, sounding out even common words (such as ‘the’), makes reading slow.
If you are teaching only Sight Words, there are also problems. First, if you come across an unfamiliar word, you won’t have many strategies to figure out the word. Second, when you start writing, spelling is going to be harder for you.
Thank you SO much for all of this information about sight words and related reading concepts. I will relay this info to friends with children with special needs.
After retiring from the USAF as an Education and Training officer and began a second career as a teacher. I was amazed at the number of children in middle and high school grades who lacked reading skills. My retirement from teaching coincided with daughter’s assignment to a near by military base and my grandson’s preK eligibility. In our rural area the trip to school was a major concern therefore we decided that I would home-school my four year old grandson instead. From various sources I compiled and printed 393 sight words on 3 by 5 index cards for first to third grade students. Now at age 5 and a half and in kindergarten he can read third grade sight words and he is learning phonics at school. Our sessions are very short (20 minutes) and simple. He has 15 seconds to read a randomly selected index card. A correctly read word earns a check mark and if he can use it in a sentence he earns a plus sign too. I have four stacks of cards as follows: 1) Main stack, 2) one checkmark, 3) two checkmarks, 3)Mastered (Three checkmarks). It works. At school his teacher has him read to the other students to help motivate them.
In looking over your material here on the internet I see no classroom checklist for all students in the class so the teacher can at a glance tell what words most of her students do not know. This is very important when using a direct instruction mode of teaching reading.
ADMIN – Hi Anita,
Thanks for the suggestion! The feedback we receive from our users helps us decide what features to add to the site.
Thank you for the great information on sight words. I am homeschooling my 4 year old son with ADHD and autism for preschool. I will be teaching him sight words over the summer to get him prepared for kindergarten.
Thank You! Your site is wonderful. Everything I need is right here, easy to find. I can’t wait to start using your tools to teach my DD.
Thanks … It is the best website talk about that topic … It is really helpful 🙂
Last year there was a pre-test on here to see what sight words they were missing. Where can I find that again. This site is wonderful.
ADMIN – Hi Tonya,
Thanks! Our site has never had a pre-test for sight words, but I recommend that you quiz your child with flash cards for the words you think they should know. You can use our card generator to create flash cards from a custom word list. Set aside any words the child stumbles on, and give those words further review using our five teaching techniques .
My 5yo grandson has a lot of signs of dyslexia. He is starting kindergarten and does not recognize all his letters or numbers. We have worked a lot with him. This looks like it could help. Are there pictures for words like my , an , etc?
ADMIN – Hi Teri,
Our Phonemic Awareness curriculum is a great place to start with your grandson. I recommend that you start with the Compound Words module , and then work through the Syllables activities until he is firm in his understanding of the concepts. Here are a few other suggestions for you to pursue: 1. If your grandson’s school has a speech/language pathologist (SLP), set up a meeting. If the SLP knows the Fast ForWord program , that may help your grandson. 2. Consider using Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons at home daily. 3. Read Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz. It will give you some good information and strategies. 4. Buy a set of sandpaper alphabet letters . Have him use his first two fingers of his dominant hand to trace and repeat the names of the letters. Start with letters that look the same in both upper and lower case form (Cc, Ss, etc.). Then have him close his eyes (or use a blindfold) and move his two fingers to trace over the letter and see if he can name it. If he can’t, give him a choice of two, then three, then four to choose from. When he is firm with naming the letters when tracing them, use the same letters without a blindfold, mix them with other letters, point to one he’s traced, and have him name it. Once he’s learned the similar-looking upper-case and lower-case letters, add the dissimilar ones (Hh, Gg, etc.). 5. There are no visuals for words like my or an except in sign language. They are high frequency words that can be learned using our sight words teaching techniques after he has learned the names of all the lower-case alphabet letters. 6. Send his school a written communication requesting an evaluation to determine if a learning ability is evident. Date it and keep a copy! The request probably won’t be acted upon for a while, but it will put them on notice that you are concerned and why. This will strengthen your case if he continues to have problems that aren’t addressed. 7. If there is a tutor trained in Orton-Gillingham methodology in your area, look into hiring that person to help your grandson.
Can you recommend some research articles that look specifically at air writing and its benefits?
ADMIN – Hi Melinda,
Try this: http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/2002_automaticity.html
First time to bump into this incredible resourceful website. I am simply loving all the helpful and guided links and instructions.
Would like to have a set of simple reading sentences for a 5 year old child
Thanks so much. I was able to train my teachers on using and teaching sight words with your materials and guide. I’m grateful. You guys are doing a great job here!!!!
Thank you for this information, I combined these lists to fit the needs of my ESL students here in Asia. We learn 5 words a week in my kindergarten class and I am so proud of them all and their current reading skills. They all passed their reading test for entering 1st grade.
Thank you…… It is really helpful.
I am a retired first grade teacher, reading specialist, principal and always educator. I now write a column for parents to know HOW to help their children learn called SUPPORTING SUPER STUDENTS (www.supportingsuperstudents.org). Since I am writing once again about helping children learn to read, I recommended your website as a resource for parents determined to help their children learn to read–whether educated publicly, privately or at home. It is one of the best for beginning readers. Thank you and I hope I have your permission for this recommendation.
Do you have any tips for teaching the alphabet? I homeschool and am trying to figure out where to start with my 4 and 5 year olds. If we start with the phoneme curriculum, should we be teaching letter recognition at the same time? Or is that part of the phoneme curriculum?
Thank you. It is really helpful to have the sight words games, flash cards, and lessons!
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Watch: sound-letter mapping for sight words, read: how to use this three-part strategy, understand: why this sight words strategy works, connect: link school to home, research behind this strategy.
Sight words are words that students are expected to recognize instantly. With the right support, students can become so familiar with these words that they no longer need to pause and try to decode them. Some sight words are regularly spelled words, and some are spelled irregularly .
You may hear other educators use the term high-frequency words . These are words that appear very often in what students read. It’s especially important for these frequently used words to become sight words. Students can read with better fluency when they recognize these words right away.
By explicitly teaching sight words, you can help cement the words into students’ memories. Use this three-part strategy, which starts with sound-letter mapping, then moves to a flashcard activity, and ends with other ways to keep reinforcing the sight words with repeated exposure.
Watch this video from Literacy How of a teacher using sound-letter mapping to teach her students the high-frequency word lit .
Objective: Students will increase the number of sight words they can recognize instantly without decoding.
Grade levels (with standards):
K (Common Core Literacy RF.K.2: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words; RF.K.3.C: Read common high-frequency words by sight)
1 (Common Core Literacy RF.1.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words; RF.1.3.G: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words)
2–5 (Common Core Literacy RF.2.3, RF.3.3, RF.4.3.A, and RF.5.3.A: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words)
Best used for instruction with:
Whole class
Small groups
Individuals
How to prepare:
Choose words to teach. Assess how well your students recognize sight words using a simple pre-test. For example, you can have students read grade-level words from Dolch or Fry word lists . Then, make a list of the 25 words your students missed most often. Divide the list into groups of five words to teach each day. (You can adjust the number of words based on your students’ needs.)
Plan daily practice. Allow about 10 minutes each day for direct instruction and practice with sight words.
Prepare materials. On the board, draw sound boxes (a long rectangle divided into two, three, or four squares, depending on the number of sounds in the words you plan to teach). Give students a matching handout of the sound boxes, such as this printable of Elkonin sound boxes .
How to teach:
1. Start with sound-letter mapping. This practice helps students connect the sounds and letters in words together.
Choose one of the five words you want to teach. Tell the students they’ll be spelling the word. (Example: with. ) Invite them to repeat the word. Then ask, “How many sounds do you hear in with ?” Hold up one finger per sound as your students say the sounds: /w/ /i/ /th/. Say the sounds with the students to help them identify individual sounds.
On the board, write in the sound boxes the letter or letters that correspond to each sound — one sound per box. Then read the word together.
Students can write the letters on their handout. Or you can give your students small manipulatives (like coins or bingo chips). Have students move one manipulative into a box for each sound. Then, when it’s time to write the corresponding letter or letters in each box, students can move the manipulatives out of the way to write the letter(s).
Repeat the sound-letter mapping with each of the five sight words.
2. Practice the words with one of the flashcard activities below. Both involve waiting a set amount of time between showing a card and asking students to say the word(s) on the card.
Constant time delay: Use this flashcard activity to give your students repeated exposure to their five words. Write one word on each card.
In round one, show and read the words one at a time to students. Wait three seconds to give students time to look at each word’s letters and patterns. Then ask them to repeat the word.
In round two, shuffle the cards and show one card at a time. Wait three seconds and then ask students to read the word. If students read the word incorrectly or aren’t able to read it, point out a memorable feature. For example, “Notice the -ed at the end of used .” Wait three seconds and ask students to try the word again. Go through the stack of cards until students correctly identify each word at least twice.
Constant time delay for words with unusual spellings: Use this activity for word sets (or “word families”) that share a pattern but that don’t have typical letter-sound combinations (like could , should , and would) . You can use a resource like Phinder to look for words based on letter patterns.
Write all the words from a word set in a vertical column on a card. Show students the card and ask them to identify how each word ends. After students respond correctly, point to and say each word on the card. Wait three seconds and then ask students to say the words.
If you’re practicing words from different word sets, be sure to write the different sets on different cards. Shuffle the cards and have students read through each word set.
Teaching tip: If you’re introducing these sight word activities for the first time, make sure to explicitly teach the activity and offer guided practice. If students are familiar with an activity, provide a quick model.
3. Continue to reinforce the sight words with repeated exposure, no matter which activity you choose. You can do this by reading texts — from books to posters to comics — that contain the sight words. You can also use word walls or word banks to help students keep track of the words they’ve learned. Once you notice that students can consistently recognize the words by sight, add them to your regular word games and activities.
When you use this strategy, you’re teaching a skill called orthographic mapping. It’s a process we use to store printed words in our long-term memory. Orthographic mapping is essential for learning sight words.
Here’s what happens when we use orthographic mapping: When we see a word, we break it apart by the sounds we hear in the word (phonemes) and the letter and letter patterns (graphemes) that correspond to those sounds. This process fixes the word into our long-term memory. Eventually, we recognize the word immediately when we see it. We still see all the letters, but we know the word so well that we don’t have to sound it out.
Research shows that most readers need between one and four exposures to a word to commit it to long-term memory. Struggling readers need even more exposure to new words because orthographic mapping can be hard. Repeated practice with sight words gives students the exposure they need to build their sight word vocabulary.
Teaching tip: For English language learners, including a word’s meaning during instruction can help with reading and language development. Try using hand gestures as you teach word meanings.
Share this article with families to help them understand what sight words are and why they’re important. You can also send home this list of 12 ways for families to help kids practice sight words at home.
“Word boxes improve phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences, and spelling skills of at-risk kindergartners,” from Remedial and Special Education
“Teaching sight words as a part of comprehensive reading instruction,” from the Iowa Reading Research Center
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When teaching children to read it is so important to teach the sight words. Many books that children read use only sight words OR, up to 80% of the words the children read are sight words. If children can read these words fluently, they would be confident, eager readers.
It is one of my goals to help children learn the sight words in a fun, engaging way. Children can create mini-books, or do cut and paste activities. OR, on of my favorite activities for teaching the sight words are color by letter/color by sight word worksheets!
Anyway, here are the sight word worksheets you can find on our site. Enjoy!
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With lithium prices languishing near three-year lows and showing no signs a recovery is coming, attention is now turning to whether miners will be forced to rein in supply of the battery metal.
The price of the material that’s vital to the energy transition has plunged by around 80% since late 2022, and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence sees the current glut deepening through 2027. While some smaller producers have already cut output, the question now is whether the bigger firms will choose to shutter mines and delay projects from Australia to Chile.
Clearer indications of the intentions of some top miners may be revealed in the coming weeks with the release of quarterly production reports or earnings. The insights from Pilbara Minerals, Mineral Resources, Albemarle and Arcadium Lithium may provide clues on what the supply response might look like.
A prolonged period of low lithium prices could “trigger a renewed wave of mine supply cuts and project delays,” said Alice Yu , the lead metals and mining research analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights. Prices for spodumene, a lithium-bearing raw material, dropped last week closer to the level when mining output cuts previously occurred between mid-January and end-February, according to data from Platts.
Lithium remains in the doldrums due to slowing growth in electric-vehicle adoption and increased supply. Spot prices of lithium carbonate in China have been hovering near the lowest since March 2021.
The market is expected to see a growth in supply of 32% in 2025, outpacing demand expansion of 23%, according to Benchmark Mineral. The surplus is set to peak in 2027 before a deficit returns at end of the decade, the consultancy said.
Some smaller players have already reacted to the prolonged price slump. Australia’s Core Lithium said this month it would halt operations at its Finniss project. In China, two of Zhicun Lithium Group Co.’s carbonate units will be put into maintenance from this month.
The weaker demand-growth outlook for EVs has continued to put downward pressure on lithium, with China’s market maturing while European and American consumers delay purchases.
The EV tariffs imposed by the EU and US against China products “have not only weighed on sentiment but have led to a drop in real-world lithium hydroxide demand,” said Claudia Cook , an analyst at Benchmark Mineral.
Chinese industry giants Ganfeng Lithium Group and Tianqi Lithium both swung to preliminary net losses in the first half. While major miners such as Pilbara Minerals are still aiming to expand output, there’s growing pressure on other miners to curtail production.
“We’ve downgraded supply forecasts for Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Australia due to diminished profit margins,” said Linda Zhang , the battery materials lead for Asia Pacific at CRU Group.
Some producers are clinging on despite having little to no profit margin, Benchmark Mineral’s Cook added, citing reasons including maintaining a skilled workforce, avoiding restarting-production costs, and preserving relationships with their buyers.
The stronger focus on supply comes as hopes fade for a significant demand rebound this year, with the supply chain still working through inventories and carmakers rethinking their EV strategies. BloombergNEF last month slashed its EV sales estimates and warned that the auto industry is falling further off the track toward decarbonisation.
The question now is how long lithium companies will be able to maintain output should prices remain stagnant, or even fall further.
Curtailments and project deferments are expected to “peak next year,” and that could tighten the market balance in the medium term, CRU’s Zhang said.
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The FBI continues to search for a motive and clues in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump by a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man.
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — Federal investigators have determined that the rifle used in an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on Saturday was legally purchased by the gunman’s father in 2013, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks , bought 50 rounds of ammunition at a gun store the morning of the shooting, according to this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share information that has not been publicly released.
The FBI said Monday that agents have accessed the data on the cellphone belonging to Crooks, and technical experts “continue to analyze his electronic devices,” the agency said in a statement.
Officials are trying to determine why Crooks opened fire at the rally for Trump in Butler, Pa., leaving the former president wounded, one rallygoer dead and two others critically injured. Even with access to the gunman’s family and friends, his phone and the phones of some of the people he communicated with, investigators have found little information pointing to a motive, according to people familiar with the probe who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
FBI officials have said they do not have meaningful evidence of an ideology driving Crooks to commit the act. He appeared to act alone, they said. Officials cautioned that the investigation was in an early stage and that their understanding could change with more evidence.
President Biden and Vice President Harris were briefed Monday in the Situation Room by senior law enforcement and security officials, including FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle also participated. The agency faces questions over how Crooks managed to get on the roof of a building outside the rally’s security perimeter and open fire. Video taken just before the attack appears to show some spectators trying to alert police to the shooter’s presence.
FBI special agent in charge Kevin Rojek said Crooks used an AR-style rifle chambered in 5.56mm, a common caliber for such weapons. Authorities said the weapon was identified and traced using records from a gun dealership that is no longer operating.
On the morning of the shooting, Crooks bought 50 rounds of ammunition at a local gun store called Allegheny Arms, according to the person familiar with the investigation. The store owner and employees declined to comment when visited by a reporter from The Washington Post on Monday morning. They offered a statement that said they have a “prerogative to cooperate with law enforcement in every way.”
“We are thankful that President Trump was not assassinated and our hearts and prayers go out to all victims of this horrible incident,” the statement said.
Crooks lived with his parents in Bethel Park, a quiet suburb of Pittsburgh that is about 50 miles south of where Saturday’s rally took place. He worked at a nursing home and graduated in May with an associate’s degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County in western Pennsylvania, according to a college spokesperson.
“Like all Americans, we are shocked and saddened by the horrific turn of events that took place,” the community college said in a statement. It expressed relief that Trump is safe and offered condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore , the 50-year-old engineer, firefighter and father of two who was killed.
Crooks planned to enroll at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh this fall, according to a university spokesperson.
At the community college, Crooks was a part of a proof-based mathematics book club that met weekly, according to a former classmate who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy. While Crooks was interested in math, the classmate said, he took more of a liking to physics.
The classmate said Crooks was a reserved person, rarely talking about politics at school and politically leaning more moderate to central right. When the classmate heard Crooks was identified as the gunman, he texted Crooks saying he was sorry someone was trying to impersonate him. He didn’t receive a text back. Then, his classmate saw the photo of Crooks fatally shot on the roof of a building.
“If I had to speculate, I would assume this was a suicide-by-cop,” said the classmate, who considered Crooks a friend. “Tom was a good guy, I assumed he was going to live a good life. I don’t know what drove him to do this. I worry about our democracy, his family, the Crooks. I feel awful for the firefighter’s family.”
In Crooks’s hometown of Bethel Park, residents on Monday had grown weary of the journalists who had descended on their community in search of answers about the would-be assassin.
The American flag outside of the Sheetz convenience store billowed at half-staff. And next to a shuttered heating and cooling company, someone planted a sign that said, “TRUMP LIVES!” Beside it was a picture of the former president, ear bloody and fist raised.
Some store owners preprinted statements to hand to visiting reporters. At the library, someone had cut out Crooks’s picture from a high school yearbook. Residents largely declined to talk about Crooks but defended Bethel Park as home to kindhearted and community-oriented people, despite the gunshots that had landed their hometown at the center of American history.
Police and volunteer firefighters blocked off access to the gunman’s neighborhood on Sunday, but the area was reopened to the public Monday. Crooks lived in a small, one-story brick home with his parents, Matthew and Mary, who have so far declined to publicly comment on the attack.
The Crookses have owned their 1,000-square-foot ranch-style home since 1998, the same year they married and five years before their son Thomas was born.
Matthew and Mary Crooks have both been licensed counselors for over two decades, Pennsylvania state records show, a certification that requires a master’s degree or higher. A LinkedIn profile lists Matthew Crooks’s employer as a company that provides mental health care, but the company did not respond to requests for comment. Matthew Crooks also owns a business called C&F Professional Disability Services based out of his mother-in-law’s Pittsburgh home, records show. The company has a minimal online footprint.
Up and down the block where the Crookses lived, many neighbors did not open their doors, or they declined to comment.
Liam Campbell, who lives across the street, said he and his family were rustled out of bed around midnight Saturday by police who were evacuating the neighborhood for fear that there might be an explosive device inside Crooks’s house.
“They said there was a device in a neighboring household that needed to be removed and that just we need to get everyone out of the house out and stay somewhere,” said Campbell, 17, adding that he was not allowed to return home until 10 p.m. Sunday.
During Campbell’s freshman year of high school, he and Crooks rode the school bus together. But, Campbell said, Crooks “kept to himself” and didn’t seem to interact with many people at school or in the neighborhood.
“He would just walk around the neighborhood by himself,” Campbell said. “He was a quiet kid, and he was kind of strange. He sat by himself. Didn’t talk to anyone. … But he just seemed like a normal person who just didn’t like talking to people.”
The gunman was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, a shooting club in Clairton, Pa., a club lawyer confirmed Monday.
The club “fully admonishes the senseless act of violence that occurred on Saturday,” Robert S. Bootay III said. He added that the club “offers its sincerest condolences to the Comperatore family and extends prayers to all of those injured, including the former president.”
Barrett and Hilton reported from Washington. Bailey reported from Atlanta. Shawn Boburg, Alice Crites, Monika Mathur, Razzan Nakhlawi, María Luisa Paúl, Aaron Schaffer, Perry Stein and Matt Viser in Washington contributed to this report.
The shooter: The FBI named Thomas Matthew Crooks , who is now dead, as the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump at a rally . The 20-year-old Pennsylvania man had searched online for information about Trump and President Biden and had photos of both men saved on his phone, according to lawmakers and others briefed on the investigation.
Victims: The man killed at the rally was Corey Comperatore , a married father of two daughters who Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said died trying to protect his family. The two rally attendees who were critically injured were identified as David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Layout of shooting site: The Washington Post built a 3D model of the site of the attempted assassination at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania based on more than 40 videos and photos. The Post’s analysis found that two Secret Service countersniper teams may not have been able to see the shooter at first.
Secret Service: Growing evidence that law enforcement were made aware of the shooter before he opened fire has put the Secret Service under pressure to explain what analysts have described as a major security failure .
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Sight words are the high-frequency words you want your students to know automatically when reading. You've done an amazing job coaching your kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade students in class, but is it enough? What if you had an engaging homework practice activity ? This sight word activity can be homework practice activity, center activity, or partner or independent learning activity that strengthens your students' reading confidence and makes them sight word masters.
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Each worksheet is designed with multiple activities to enhance the practice and memorization of each sight word.
► Read It! - Each sight word is listed for easy practice.
► Trace It! - Each sight word is written in dotted lines for writing practice.
► Write It! - Practice writing the sight word without tracing.
► Write It Again! - Because you can never practice enough.
► Write It Again Without Looking! - A foldable tab for writing practice from memory.
► Sight Word Flash Cards - Students can remove Each sight word from a separate flash card from the rest of the sheet.
I send home one page of the sight words per week with these instructions:
Day 1: Read and trace the words
Day 2: Cut out the sight word flashcards and keep them in a special place at home to practice them every week.
Days 3 & 4: Practice the sight word flashcards.
I encourage students to find a safe place to keep the cards at home and practice the words continually.
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This packet contains work for ten sight words a week, word rings, and spelling test templates. The activities follow the order of Fry's first 300 sight words (1-300) taken from the Reading Teacher's Book of Lists. Each list comes with the following activities which can be used as centers, morning work, word work.
Sight Word Worksheets & Activity Pages for Preschool and Kindergarten students. Sight words are words that generally cannot be sounded out phonetically, or have a silent letter. These are words children will simply need to memorize by sight through repetition from reading and targeted learning. Sight Word of the Week Program.
5. Tap it, pop it, learn it! @hellojenjones/Pop-It sight word activity via Instagram. Use pop-its to reinforce reading each part of a word. Write the word, break it out by sound, so "said" becomes "s" "e" "d.". Then, students press a "button" in the pop it for each part of the word they read.
Sight words worksheets are great activities; they are the perfect supplement to a sight word lesson. We have created numerous worksheets to help your child or student develop a sight word vocabulary. Our selection of sight words is based on our reading curriculum and Dolch's and Fry's list containing common or high frequency words that a ...
4. Use bottle caps - Collect bottle caps from friends and family to use for spelling sight words. See how you can do this with these cute Caterpillar Sight Words. 5. Chant them - Download our Animal Sight Word Chants and 24 Sight Word Chants. SUCH an easy and multi-sensory way to practice ANY sight words! 6.
Great choice board for weekly sight word homework! Subjects: Phonics, Spelling, Writing. Grades: K - 2 nd. Types: Activities, Handouts, Homework. $1.00. Original Price $1.00. Rated 4.84 out of 5, based on 65 reviews. 4.8 (65) PDF. Add one to cart. Fry's Sight Word Flash Cards and Parent Notes with Sight Word Homework Log (B&W)
This Sight Word Homework Menu gives fun choices for your students while doing their homework. Each week they can choose 3 of the 9 choices.Choices include:Rainbow writingSilly SentencesABC orderMagazine wordsPoemsand more. Subjects: Reading, Writing. Grades: PreK - 5 th.
This resource includes no prep printables for the first 300 words on the Fry's Word List. Students can practice each word through 7 different activities. Find and Circle. Write the Word. Box the Word. Draw the Word. Count the Syllables. Fill in the Blank. Use the Word in a Sentence.
Reading fluency is the result of a lot of repetition and memorization. Each weekly worksheet in this resource introduces a group of six words from the Dolch Pre-primer word list. Each weekly worksheet focuses on a specific group of words and includes a different daily activity. Monday: students read, trace, and write sight words.
A reader must notice the sequence of letters or spelling, pronounce the word, map the spoken sounds to the letters through reading and writing the word a few times to secure it in memory. This process of orthographic mapping (Ehri, 2014; Kilpatrick, 2015) forms the "glue" that bonds words in memory. Once a reader has a strong alphabetic ...
Sightwordtools.com provides a simple, research-based system for teaching and tracking sight words. Sight word instruction is delivered through online videos that can be viewed on any computer, tablet, or phone. Each lesson is equipped with practice activities and assessment tools to ensure student success.
Here is the description of the Preschool level: Sight Word of the Week covers 40 key sight words. Each week covers a single sight word with fun and engaging worksheets, activities, games and hands-on resources. Students put their knowledge to the test with a weekly sight word mini-book that will bridge the gap between emergent and early readers ...
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3. Types of Sight Words. Sight words fall into two categories: Frequently Used Words — Words that occur commonly in the English language, such as it, can, and will.Memorizing these words makes reading much easier and smoother, because the child already recognizes most of the words and can concentrate their efforts on new words.
This weekly, no prep sight word homework includes 100 sight words from the Fry Sight Word list for your students! It includes the first 100 sight words that are split into weekly lists of 10 words with directions and student writing templates for each day. This purchase includes the weekly homework split into separate PDFs as well as the full ...
Sight Word Search: Have your child write their sight words on sticky notes at the start of each week. Every day, hide three or more words around the house and have your child find and read them. Hide the sticky notes in a new spot each day. Note of the Day: Each day, write your child a short note (1-3 sentences).
Sight words are words that students are expected to recognize instantly. With the right support, students can become so familiar with these words that they no longer need to pause and try to decode them. Some sight words are regularly spelled words, and some are spelled irregularly. You may hear other educators use the term high-frequency words.
These sight word worksheets make great practice work for preschool, kindergarten, first grade in a classroom or homeschool. In addition, these sight word worksheets are perfect for morning work, literacy centers, independent seat work, guided activities and homework! When teaching children to read it is so important to teach the sight words.
When thinking about how to teach sight words, you have to be sure to be engaging. ... One effective way to teach sight words is by making a sight word of the week. Using a list of sight words for kindergarten, focus on one word a week and feature it everywhere. Have students spell it on their way in, read it in context, write it on the board ...
Join us for Sight Word Swat!, a weekly class designed to make learning sight words fun and engaging for young learners. Each session features a lively game where students use printouts of cartoon flies, each adorned with a Dolch Primer sight word. ... Increase reading confidence and motivation by combining physical activity with learning ...
First Grade Weekly Sight Word Homework aligned with National Geographic REACH for READING curriculum. Includes 32 weeks of sight word homework. Two versions are included for homework due on Thursdays or Fridays. Includes these directions for parents/guardians: Please work with your child until he or she has mastered all of the words above. To ...
In the fourth week of our 10-week challenge, we received 777 entries, and we list the finalists below. Scroll down to read the work of our winner, Jawaher Korichi, to watch a video response we ...
Lithium remains in the doldrums due to slowing growth in electric-vehicle adoption and increased supply. Spot prices of lithium carbonate in China have been hovering near the lowest since March 2021.
Engage students with weekly practice of learned sight words by providing these sheets for homework practice. Included you will find a progress monitoring sheet to asses student learning for your record keeping and or to share with the student's guardian. A teacher checklist is also included to assist in tracking the words you have introduced.
The FBI continues to search for a motive and clues in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa.
I send home one page of the sight words per week with these instructions: Day 1: Read and trace the words. Day 2: Cut out the sight word flashcards and keep them in a special place at home to practice them every week. Days 3 & 4: Practice the sight word flashcards.