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Helpful Score: 3
I'm going to recommend against this book, and right off I want to say that it may be right for you, if you understand your alternatives. Consider this: you're a paperbackswap person, so you're able to use the Internet. If you use a search engine to find the Dolch Words you'll have the first words you need. At The School Bell's web site the 220 Dolch words are organized into leveled sets, so make a table in your word processor and print out a set whenever you are ready for more words. Jan Brett's web site also offers these words in leveled groups.
If you want to know what to DO with the words, take advice from the School Bell web site, or from a book like "Words Their Way" by D. Bear, M. Invernizzi, S. Templeton, and F. Johnston.
Keep in mind that the words we call sight words don't follow the phonetics rules (e.g. "said" should really be spelled "sed" but we're stuck with the word the way it's been spelled for centuries). We have to learn to recognize these sight words, not sound them out. You and your child will also enjoy having activities to learn the phonetically regular words (cat, bat, hat), often presented in books with "word families" in the names or descriptions.
If you want to know what to DO with the words, take advice from the School Bell web site, or from a book like "Words Their Way" by D. Bear, M. Invernizzi, S. Templeton, and F. Johnston.
Keep in mind that the words we call sight words don't follow the phonetics rules (e.g. "said" should really be spelled "sed" but we're stuck with the word the way it's been spelled for centuries). We have to learn to recognize these sight words, not sound them out. You and your child will also enjoy having activities to learn the phonetically regular words (cat, bat, hat), often presented in books with "word families" in the names or descriptions.
