Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Sight Words Mrs. Smith is a Kindergarten teacher and she is currently sending home weekly sight word lists with her students. She notices that the students know the words on the day she assesses, but they are quickly forgotten afterward. What are some methods that she can implement to ensure that the students retain the words? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Mrs. Smith could implement a High-Five game in her classroom. She could write each of the week's sight words on a hand-shaped cutout. She could choose two words each day and post them on the door frames of the classroom, one inside and one outside. As students exit the classroom, as they do several times each day, they could name the sight word and give it a high-five if they get it correctly. As they enter the room again , they could do the same with the other word. The teacher would be present to monitor whether or not the student said the word correctly, and if they didn't they could tell them the word, have them repeat it, and then allow them to give it a high-five. Students in our school love this game, especially when they get to jump a little to reach it!