How can I remember my sight words?

Answer 1

Learning sight words are different for every person.

For myself, I used music to help me learn sight words.

Reading the words out to popular tunes like Mary had a little lamb, row row row your boat, or others songs, helped me in memorizing words.

You could even make a rap song out of it!

Another way of learning them is writing all the words out 2 times. You will then try to write them down from memory. Don't worry if you do not get them all the first time you write them from memory, just go over the ones you forget, look at all of them again, and try writing it from memory a second time.

One last way you could go over your sight words is by memorizing the first letter of each word.

Example:

Example Sight words

all, be, came, four, want,

A- all

B- be

C- came

F- four

W- want

Good luck in memorizing your site words!

Answer 2

Hi,

Sight words don't follow the rules!! This is why they need to be memorized and taught in a way that they can be remembered. It's important to not just rely on visual memory but to integrate auditory and tactile as well. For example, if you are learning the word "beautiful"... it is important to handwrite each letter out (cursive is best but print is okay), say each letter aloud (so you can hear it), and then write it with your eyes closed (so you and visualize it in your brain). It helps to draw a picture next to the word to help trigger a mental reminder.

I have my students write no more than 2-3 sight words a lesson using these strategies. See yourself writing it, hear yourself writing it aloud, visualize yourself writing it. Good luck!! Remember, 80-85% of our language is rule-based, so you won't HAVE to memorize that many sight words.

Answer 3

Find patterns that happen between your sight words. For instance, Walk, Talk, Chalk, all have the same structure, so you can put those on the same flashcard. It helps to find word families like that.

As the other two answers have implied, writing them down also helps.

Answer 4

*Make some flashcards containing one sight word on one side and its definition on the other side to help you get a better idea of what they each mean, and their respective parts of speech to follow.

*Practice writing down each sight word on separate lines of a piece of paper so that you can get a good idea of how they are each spelled and their underlying phonemic components in tow.

*See if you can find any of your sight words in books that you are reading, character dialogue exchanges in movies and television shows that you are watching, as well as everyday conversations that you yourself have with people around you (or virtually, given the times we are currently living in).

*You can also put your sight words in alphabetical order on paper to help you remember how to spell them and further your overall understanding of their literary connections definitively as well as rhythmically, linguistically speaking.

*Quiz yourself, or have somebody quiz you, on your list of sight words to help you refresh your memory of their pronunciations, spellings, parts of speech, and definitions, every now and then in the process.

Answer 5

I find that these strategies tend to help me:

-Write each word three times over

-Think of a picture to compliment each word

-Use the word in a sentence

-Say the word aloud three times over

-Draw each word in a silly font, then color if desired

-Make a silly song about the word (rhyming, descriptive, or otherwise)