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Shoot, Julie! I’m so sorry that yesterday’s email didn’t arrive in your inbox. Unfortunately, technology wasn’t on our side but Alex and I hunted down the glitch, fixed it, and everything should be good to go for the next three days. Your VIP email is heading out at noon PT / 3 pm ET this afternoon. ❤️
When should we introduce the new SOR sight words in kindergarten? Most of my students do not have any prior knowledge of letters or letter sounds. We use a popular phonics program that is research based but not evidence based and I find that my students are struggling to acquire the new words. I have downloaded and printed your SOR sight words. My question is; when should I introduce the decodable sight words? They have learned /a/ and /o/ vowels and the following consonants; /m/, /l/, /g/, /h/.
Hi Karen,
Fantastic question! Once students know enough letters to start building words, you can begin having them read and write decodable words. In the Reading Roadmap lesson plans, we start that work after children have learned these first eight letter sounds: /m/ /s/ /f/ /a/ /p/ /t/ /k/ /i/.
Then they’re able to write words including mat, sat, sit, pit, kit, fat, pat, tap, tip, etc.
For your sight word list specifically, I recommend teaching those words wherever they naturally fit in with your phonics lessons. For instance, if you are introducing /n/ and will be practicing -AN words, you could work on the sight words AND and AN. The goal is to only teach sight words once students have learned the phonics skills they need for those words to be truly decodable for them. 🙂
I did not get the VIP Q and A video.
Shoot, Karen! I’m so sorry that today’s email didn’t make it to your inbox safely. I just uploaded the replay to the VIP page so you can scroll down to “Day Four” and binge watch it right here: https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/vip-upgrade-5-day-challenge/
Fingers crossed that does the trick! <3
Hi Malia, you mentioned that the Reading Roadmap program opens tomorrow. Could you please outline the differences (or similarities) of that program compared to a Science of Reading Formula membership. Thanks!
Hi Deb,
I’m glad you asked this because, as a Science of Reading Formula member, you actually get 50% off your enrollment. (I’ll be emailing you the link a little later today.)
The primary difference between the course and the membership is the way information is presented. If you join the Reading Roadmap course, you’ll spend a couple hours each week completing the step-by-step training AND follow up action steps so that, by the end of the 4-week course, you’ve set up your classroom with everything you need to succeed: you assessed all of your students, created highly targeted small groups, learned specific research-based strategies for supporting students with dyslexia, etc. If you thrive on systems, The Reading Roadmap will knock your socks off.