If you’re fortunate enough to have a teacher assistant they can assist with this. Obviously it may take longer for classroom teachers to administer the assessment. To administer this sight word assessment, the teacher should find time to work with each student one-on-one for the most accurate results. Ideally, a formal sight word assessment should be administered at least once a month to progress monitor students’ growth with their sight word mastery. Progress monitoring using formal assessments and data binders are a crucial component of all RTI interventions. This informal sight word assessment helps determine which words to be practicing with students each day. As you can see from the picture above students will have multiple checks and Xs next to each word. If they are incorrect or hesitant with the word I give them an X. If they are able to read or write the word quick and accurately, I give them a check in the box next to the corresponding sight word. These graphs include the Dolch sight words that students are currently working on mastering: PrePrimer, Primer, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, or 3rd Grade list.Īs students complete the sight word activities during guided reading, teachers can use the data graphs to document each individual student’s success with reading and/or writing the word. I like to track these skills separately since students’ mastery of words they can read and write will vary. This process of orthographic mapping (Ehri, 2014 Kilpatrick, 2015) forms the glue that bonds words in memory. For each guided reading group, I have two separate data graphs: one to track words they can read and one for words they can write. 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. Here are the sight word read, trace paste printables that I made for the 40 Dolch pre-primer words. Behind the assessment sheet are the sight words that Audrey has colored and we use these pages to make sentences with sight words. Teachers may want to use data graphs to track the sight words that students can read and/or write. On the right is our pre-primer sight word assessment sheet. (For ideas of the sight word games I play check out the blog post!) During these activities, teachers can informally assess students to see which words they know automatically and which are still unknown. This may include doing a quick write on whiteboards to practice known sight words or playing a fun review game. Sight words practice is typically included into the daily guided reading routine. Find out about an easy and free way to assess your students’ sight word knowledge! Informal Assessment During Guided Reading There are so many amazing resources and activities available online for fun ways to practice sight words, but how should we be assessing students’ sight word mastery? Teachers need to be using a sight word assessment to progress monitor students’ sight words mastery on a regular basis. In order for students to become fluent readers, they need to develop a large base of known sight words.
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