sight words

[loosinas]

still lokking for new and interesting ways to make the tricky words stick for my son... he's getting discouraged that when tested he doesn't get a new set as he struggles to remember them
has anyone tried any ideas in this book?
www.amazon.co.uk/Success-Sight-Words-Multisensory-High-Frequency/dp/157471533X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
thanks!

Poppet
Most children who learn to read well when still quite young learn with a mixture of phonics and ?working words out?. They don?t take long to realise which letters have fairly reliable sounds and which (e.g. a, e, ea, o, o-e, oo, ou, ow) cannot be reliably sounded out. They read with understanding and work out words like ?any, she, great, some, look, trouble, snow ? partly from their other letters and partly from context.

But most of all, they are good at remembering all common words as sight words, so they don?t have to spend much time on decoding. It does not matter one jot how children learn to read, as long as they learn fairly quickly and are enjoying it.

Feenie, I really don't care what you have found or heard. The BBC is of course a very poor example to use. Mispronunciation due to ignorance is WRONG and I am so glad that you do not teach my children.

I use Kilometre/speedometer and I am neither ignorant of the meaning nor the construction of the word

harvalp, your example is inconsistent. The difference in pronunciation (in the UK) has nothing to do with the meanings if the two root words. Meter and metre are pronounced the same way. Saying kilo-metre feels unnatural to many people because it places the stress on the first syllable, instead of the second (which is quite common in English words of three or more syllables).

I was so vexed by this that I looked it up in the OED:

kilometre | kilometer, n.
Pronunciation: ( /ˈkɪləmiːtə(r)/ ; also with pronunc. /kɪˈlɒmɪtə(r)/ )
Etymology: French kilomètre (1795): see kilo- comb. form and metre n.1 (The stress is marked by Webster (1828), Craig, and Cassell as kiˈlometre.)
prob. under the influence of such words as speedometer, thermometer.

So the 'American' pronunciation is in fact the older English one...

I don't know which of your statements makes you look sillier - that you dismiss the Oxford Dictionary as something I've 'heard' or that you think that warrants your assertion that you are glad I don't teach your children! Ridiculous.

I think the rest of us should have a straight forward vote on who we agree with. I'm with Feenie!

Thanks, Jezabelle

And thanks to notrightnow, too.

It irks me, this sudden rush that certain posters seem to have to declare that they are glad that certain MN teachers do not teach their children, with little or no foundation. It would be just as reprehensible for one of us to say 'I am so glad you are not a parent at my school', but no one ever does because it would be equally daft. One poster once told me that by disagreeing with her on MN I was bringing the profession into disrepute! It shouldn't get to me, I know, but it does occasionally.

PoppetUK yes I would suspect he has a better understanding of phonics than you realised. A good teacher would point out the i-e grapheme when teaching words such as "like" and your son is obviously applying what he knows well.

harvalp I find it incredible that you call people ignorant while clearly demonstrating your own ignorance

Feenie, what's especially absurd is that as we are mostly anonymous here, you might actually be her child's teacher!

Now there's a thought!

My vote is for Feenie.

After years and years of being a Southerner living north of Watford Gap and being told that 'there is no 'r' in 'glass' I think you can say words however you jolly well like!

And I should imagine you're glad you don't teach her kids anyway Feenie! . . . (Unless you do!)