DOLCH KIT
Here is an explanation of the Dolch word list from the Dolch Sight Words website:
"The Dolch Word List is a list of commonly used English words that was originally compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD and published in his 1948 book, "Problems in Reading". Edward Dolch compiled this list based on children's books of the period, and selected 220 "service words" which children need to recognize in order to achieve reading fluency. Dolch excluded nouns from his main list, but did compile a separate 95-word list of nouns."
I am sure the rest of the world knows this, but, for the longest time, I did not know what these "Dolch" words were and felt too silly to ask!!
Having a 11yo struggling reader and an enthusiastic 6yo up and coming reader has motivated me to step up our reading program. One of the ways we have done this is by using the Dolch Kit from The School Bell (one of the LA resources I have listed). All of these Dolch resources are free, and are easy to print and assemble!!
The dog really did eat our school work-- the reason for the wrinkled envelope is that our dog, Jack, thought he'd like to play too. Fortunately, the game survived to play another day. :)
The game in this envelope is called Pig. The goal is to be the one who wins the most cards. A player does this by saying how many cards he can turn over and read (helping with the reading is allowed) before he turns over a pig card (you have to return all cards from that turn to the pile) or a stop card (you can keep what you have won on this turn so far, but your turn ends). On the School Bell site, there are 11 different word lists you can choose from--plus the pig and stop cards and complete directions to play the game.
The great thing about this game is that even if the reading list you are playing from is below some of the players' learning level, the surprise element of turning over a "stop" or "pig" keeps it interesting. On the other hand, even the youngest player has fun guessing how many cards he can get-- another player just reads his cards for him.
There are several other Dolch lesson resources to be found on the School Bell site!!
"The Dolch Word List is a list of commonly used English words that was originally compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD and published in his 1948 book, "Problems in Reading". Edward Dolch compiled this list based on children's books of the period, and selected 220 "service words" which children need to recognize in order to achieve reading fluency. Dolch excluded nouns from his main list, but did compile a separate 95-word list of nouns."
I am sure the rest of the world knows this, but, for the longest time, I did not know what these "Dolch" words were and felt too silly to ask!!
Having a 11yo struggling reader and an enthusiastic 6yo up and coming reader has motivated me to step up our reading program. One of the ways we have done this is by using the Dolch Kit from The School Bell (one of the LA resources I have listed). All of these Dolch resources are free, and are easy to print and assemble!!
The dog really did eat our school work-- the reason for the wrinkled envelope is that our dog, Jack, thought he'd like to play too. Fortunately, the game survived to play another day. :)The game in this envelope is called Pig. The goal is to be the one who wins the most cards. A player does this by saying how many cards he can turn over and read (helping with the reading is allowed) before he turns over a pig card (you have to return all cards from that turn to the pile) or a stop card (you can keep what you have won on this turn so far, but your turn ends). On the School Bell site, there are 11 different word lists you can choose from--plus the pig and stop cards and complete directions to play the game.
The great thing about this game is that even if the reading list you are playing from is below some of the players' learning level, the surprise element of turning over a "stop" or "pig" keeps it interesting. On the other hand, even the youngest player has fun guessing how many cards he can get-- another player just reads his cards for him. There are several other Dolch lesson resources to be found on the School Bell site!!
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