Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Sight Words I teach kindergarten and sight words are an important part of our instruction. We must have the support of our parents to keep this going. We try to help each child reach the 100 sight word club but many students do not have the help at home they need. It is a difficult problem. It is not fair to the students when it is their parents that are not helping them. How can we motivate our parents to study nightly? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) You don't know what their home life is. Some parens may work night shifts and are unable to study with their students. I would maybe request a phone conference, or a face-to-face conference with some of the parents in order to show the strides, and improvements needed for their child. I would provide the parens with a copy of the sight word list and maybe break the words down into groups with dates they should master them by. I would write everyday in the planner "study sight words" as a gentle reminder. You could also send home a letter to all parents with the request for them to practice sight words with their children and a list of activities to enhance the learning at home. Maybe street signs, or menus at restaurants, have the children point out various sight words as they see them. EXPOSURE EXPOSURE EXPOSURE :)