Kathy-Ann St. Hill-St. Lawrence (or “Ms. Saint,” as she’s called by her students) is passionate about literacy. She knows that keeping it playful is critical for learning. In her second-grade class at ...

In 1936, Edward William Dolch published his list of what he called “Sight Words.” Dolch, an advocate of the ‘whole word reading’ approach, argued that his list of 220 words was used in up to 75% of ...

Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch… How do you use your five senses? Humans understand and perceive the world around us using our five senses. Exploring sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch ...

In many classrooms we visit, “sight words” receive a very different kind of instruction than other words, taught primarily as an exercise in visual memorization. In this post, we explain why sight ...

Sight words or Dolch words, are vocabulary words that need to be memorized by sight in order to achieve language and reading fluency. Some sight words are abstract or can't be sounded out phonetically ...