Learn to Read: Sight Words 4.1

Recognized as the Best App for Beginning Readers by iTeachHub, this educational tool is designed to support students who are in the emergent or beginning stages of reading.

This app aids in building a child's vocabulary through an array of educational features, including common sight words, beginning and ending consonant blends (e.g., dr-ag, so-ft), and various word families (e.g., am, Sam, jam). With over 500 words included, it fosters an understanding of rhymes and word families.

Features:

• Sight words: Commonly used sight words
• Beginning consonants: 20 word groups with highlighted blends in green (e.g., dr-ag)
• Ending consonants: 13 word groups with highlighted blends in green (e.g., so-ft)
• Word families: Includes 22 categories such as am, Sam, jam and b-ad, p-ad, s-ad
• Track Progress: Enables monitoring of viewed words
• Automatic mode: Words are displayed every 4 seconds
• Swipe mode: Users can manually navigate through words
• Text-to-speech: Provides auditory support as words appear on screen

Benefits:

• Enhances recognition of sight words, consonant blends, and word families
• Aids in identifying short and vowel sounds following the CVC pattern
• Supports phonemic awareness (phonics)
• Prepares children for early literacy development

Recommended For:

• Boys and girls ages 3 to 7
• Beginning and struggling readers up to age 8
• English-language learners

Alignment with Common Core State Standards:

The app effectively supports teachers and parents in adhering to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts. Below are the relevant standards for kindergarten and grade 1:

Kinder Reading Foundational Skills - Phonological Awareness:

• Understand spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
• Produce rhyming words.
• Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

Kinder Reading Foundational Skills - Phonics and Word Recognition:

• Apply grade-level phonics skills for decoding words.
• Demonstrate letter-sound correspondences by producing primary sounds for consonants.
• Associate long and short sounds with common vowel spellings.
• Recognize common high-frequency words by sight.

Grade 1 Reading Foundational Skills - Phonics and Word Recognition:

• Implement grade-level phonics skills in decoding.
• Understand spelling-sound correspondences for consonant digraphs.
• Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Grade 1 Reading Foundational Skills - Phonological Awareness:

• Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

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