Reading Practice

Reading is one of the most fundamental skills required to be successful in the world today. As we were teaching our son to read we found how important sight words are in reading and how often our son would memorize the sequence of the words in a story and not actually learn how to read the word. In order to help him my husband created a simple program that randomizes words and repeats them over a series of slides. Using this our son would only see one word at a time and have it repeat through the slides randomly so he could not repeat a sequence. We limited each list to 5 words and based our word lists off of the Dolch Sight Words list. Below you will find links to different word lists at different reading levels (pre-kindergarten to third grade). Hopefully it will help your children as much as it has helped ours (starting kindergarten he could not read, before first grade he was reading chapter books!).

Alphabet Practice

Alphabet Practice - before starting on sight words it can be helpful to make sure your child is identifying each letter properly. This post goes through and randomizes the alphabet (both upper and lower case letters) with 300 separate slides. Should take up to 10 minutes to work through and will help you to identify if you need to do some more recognition practice with any letters.

Number Practice

Number Practice - It can be helpful to go through numbers 1-20 in the same manner as the alphabet practice as they need to know the numbers 1-20 while in kindergarten and can easily come across any of those numbers when starting to read.

Advanced Number Practice - As our son started reading we found 1-20 was a good start but that he needed higher numbers and after searching through all of his books we found knowing up to 1000 was super helpful.

Advanced Number Practice - This is a repeat of the same type of numbers as the above file but a completely different set of slides, this helped our son have a slightly greater variety.

Dolch Sight Words - Pre-Kindergarten

Pre-Kindergarten List one - down, look, blue, funny, said

Pre-Kindergarten List two - come, run, to, play, it


Pre-Kindergarten List three - away, make, is, big, here


Pre-Kindergarten List four - in, the, my, we, me


Pre-Kindergarten List five - up, for, find, three, where


Pre-Kindergarten List six - one, jump, little, red, a


Pre-Kindergarten List seven - not, I, yellow, you, see


Pre-Kindergarten List eight - can, two, go, help, and

Dolch Sight Words - Kindergarten 

These files are broken down into lists of 5 and 6 words to help your child start memorizing key sight words based on the Dolch Sight Words List for Kindergarten.

Kindergarten List one - all, she, be, no, soon

Kindergarten List two - will, like, under, now, he

Kindergarten List three - yes, four, came, well, eat

Kindergarten List Four - black, have, too, ate, with

Kindergarten List Five - am, must, pretty, there, want

Kindergarten List six - do, get, good, on, into

Kindergarten List seven - did, so, are, who, what

Kindergarten List eight - was,saw, at, they, but

Kindergarten List nine - please, went, ran, white, that, ride

Kindergarten List ten - new, say, our, brown, this, out

Dolch Sight Words - First Grade

These files are broken down into lists of 5 and 6 words to help your child start memorizing key sight words based on the Dolch Sight Words List for First Grade.

First Grade List one - his, were, any, give, some

First Grade List two - from, her, by, live, could

First Grade List three - an, ask, has, take, open

First Grade List four - every, think, of, round, him

First Grade List five - again, going, walk, let, know

First Grade List six - just, thank, had, stop, once

First Grade List seven - how, when, put, then, old

First Grade List eight - over, as, them, fly, after, may

Dolch Sight Words - Second Grade

These files are broken down into lists of 5 and 6 words to help your child start memorizing key sight words based on the Dolch Sight Words List for Second Grade.

Second Grade List one - don't, use, buy, upon, work

Second Grade List two - call, off, sing, gave, wish

Second Grade List three - pull, always, sleep, right, read

Second Grade List four - green, these, us, both, made

Second Grade List five - before, found, fast, five, their

Second Grade List six - cold, because, does, which, best

Second Grade List seven - or, around, been, your, wash

Second Grade List eight - very, first, those, tell, goes

Second Grade List nine - would, why, many, sit, its, write

Dolch Sight Words - Third Grade

These files are broken down into lists of 5 and 6 words to help your child start memorizing key sight words based on the Dolch Sight Words List for Third Grade.
 

Third Grade List one - show, drink, got, if, never

Third Grade List two - full, kind, bring, try, hurt

Third Grade List three - light, start, carry, done, only

Third Grade List four - warm, draw, laugh, myself, own

Third Grade List five - long, hot, hold, shall, pick

Third Grade List six - cut, clean, six, fall, far

Third Grade List seven - about, much, small, grow, keep

Third Grade List eight -  together, better, today, eight, seven, ten

Dolch Sight Words - Nouns

These files are broken down into lists of 5 and 6 words to help your child start memorizing key sight words based on the Dolch Sight Words List for Nouns.

Nouns List one - home, father, morning, duck, cake

Nouns List two - snow, farm, thing, Santa Claus, flower

Nouns List three - rabbit, back, garden, coat, wood

Nouns List four - time, seed, children, man, night

Nouns List five - school, robin, nest, tree, brother

Nouns List six - goodbye, bear, cow, girl, picture

Nouns List seven - grass, bread, money, box, toy

Nouns List eight - day, fish, farmer, chicken, fire

Nouns List nine - eye, corn, song, ball, table

Nouns List ten - bed, floor, bell, chair, doll

Nouns List eleven - bird, dog, birthday, name, window

Nouns List twelve - boat, egg, squirrel, rain, street

Nouns List thirteen - car, mother, pig, milk, hand

Nouns List fourteen - boy, cat, paper, apple, horse

Nouns List fifteen - wind, men, way, water, kitty

Nouns List sixteen - feet, game, ring, letter, sun

Nouns List seventeen - top, hill, leg, party, ground

Nouns List eighteen - stick, shoe, sheep, sister, Christmas

Nouns List nineteen - head, door, baby, house, watch