Purpose Statement
Sight Word Reciprocity in 1st Grade
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The purpose of this study is to determine if implementing sight word games and goal setting strategies will improve students’ application of sight words when reading grade level text and writing independently creating reciprocity, the fluency between reading and writing.
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This action plan started by seeing 4 areas in the classroom that proved their was a need to implement an action to improve reading and writing sight words. Read more in Fall Data Shows the Need.
Fall Data That Shows the Need
Why Sight Word Fluency is Important.
While researching this topic, I found that learning to read and write sight words is an individual task. This is why I focused the majority of my work on small group and individual instruction/ intervention. After taking a baseline of how many words they could read and write, we then worked together to set a number goal as well as action steps they wanted to commit to. I also found that students are very motivated through games, which is why part of their day consisted of playing games with an intentional group to practice under low stakes. Five students that had a low baseline of reading the 100 sight words were partnered up with a student that was high in reading the sight words and tasked to listen to them read the words everyday before I would do a small assessment on them on Friday. They also had their own goal setting sheet that they could color in the words that they could say correctly and quickly until they got all 100 filled in.
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Read this Literature Review to learn more about reading and writing Sight Word Fluency.
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While assessing the student’s benchmark writing at the beginning of the year, observations showed that the students were using numerous Kindergarten and First Grade sight words in context, but few of them were spelled correctly.
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When giving the Kindergarten Sight Word Assessment for writing 50 sight words, 11 of the 20 students (55%) could spell the Kindergarten Sight Words correctly for them to be considered proficient (40/50 words).
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Dictation sentences are given at the end of each week that contain all five sight words that were taught that week, over half of the students still have a difficult time spelling them correctly within the context of a sentence.
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After giving the the First Grade Sight Word Assessment, 16 out of 20 students (80%) were able to write a proficient amount of sight words while 15 out of 20 (75%) were able to read a proficient amount of sight words. When these skills are strong, they will help the students to progress in both their reading and writing skills as these are commonly used vocabulary words.
Reciprocity