A new teaching product for struggling learners!
Do you have students who are struggling to memorize their sight words? Stop the struggle! Learn sight words easily with Right Brain Sight Words Cards from Dianne Craft.
Students effortlessly learn to read and spell these sight words because the imagery on the words causes it to stick in their long term memory. This enables them not only to remember the name of the word, but also to SPELL the word from memory. Many of your students will easily spell the word forwards and backwards, although this isn't necessary. This has often been called a universal learning method because it's easy to use for even the most struggling learner. It helps students tap into their natural photographic memory.
This method of learning works wonderfully with students of all ages and abilities. Many teachers who are working with struggling readers and spellers are having great success:
... Kindergarten teachers can give their students a real "leg up" in learning the early sight words.
... First grade teachers use this method to ensure that all their students learn the basic sight words by the end of the year.
... Second and third grade teachers use it for those students who are reading below grade level.
... ESL teachers find them very effective for their population.
... Struggling readers, students on an IEP, and students with an auditory processing glitch find these cards invaluable for making a "leap" in learning.
The beauty of this method is that by using the child's "camera" to learn the words, the child not only learns to read the words easily, but also spell them using his new-found "photographic memory."
The Craft Right Brain Dolch Primer Sight Word set includes teacher instructions and the following sight word cards:
all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes
As one first-grader said to her mother, "I don't hate school anymore. It's not so hard."
"Visual Memory is far superior to Auditory Memory. It is practically perfect", Peter Russell, author of The Brain Book.
What are "Dolch words"?
Edward William Dolch, PhD, published a word list in Problems in Reading (1948). He had researched children's books to determine which words were most frequently used. Dolch believed that learning his list of 220 "service words" would speed the development of reading fluency in children learning to read. Although some of the words in the Dolch word list can be sounded out using phonic knowledge, many cannot and have to be memorized as "sight words". Even the decodable words should be mastered for instant recall. The list is divided into grade levels, but most schools expect children to master reading all the words in the Dolch word list by the end of first grade. Learning to spell them all may take longer. The Dolch words are helpful for adults learning English as an additional language as well as for children and adults learning to read.
Sets are available for Pre-Primer, Primer, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 3rd Grade, and the economical 5-set package.
This listing is the Primer set of 52 cards. 2015
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