How To Motivate Students Using Ball Words as Sight Words and The Science of Reading
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How To Motivate Students Using Ball Words as Sight Words and The Science of Reading

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Ball words provide motivation for students to practice and master sight words. By placing ‘words’ on sports balls, sight word practice activities and games become fun and engaging. It also provides students with a means to see their own progress in mastering these words. The goal is never to just memorize these words, but by using the materials included in this resource, students will work with words, mapping, reading and playing until they become familiar by sight.

Valuable Steps for Mapping Sight Words for Mastery
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Valuable Steps for Mapping Sight Words for Mastery

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Teaching sight words in early elementary classrooms can be a challenge. However, through orthographic mapping, students do more than just memorize words. By mapping out words, kindergarten and first grade students will receive explicit instruction to help them make connections and recoginize patterns in words. While teachers understand the importance of this, it is difficult to know how to make it work in a real classroom. This blog post will show you how.

St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Games
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St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Games

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Classroom games are a powerful tool for motivating students. Not only does it increase cognition and working memory, but it’s FUN. These St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Games are perfect for you early childhood classroom and will engage your students in practicing essential skills in math and ela. The sight word games are editable so you can meet your students various readiness levels and they include whole group, partner and even independent games. Don’t miss these games that are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students.