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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Fry Words--Check list and a Freebie

I've mentioned a few times that our district finally has agreed on what our sight word list should be.  Most of the teachers I worked with used Dolch words.  Then the past two years, we had some sort of CRAZY combo that I have no clue where some of the words on the lists came.  This year, it has been determined that we are going for Fry words.

I started transitioning to Fry last year when I heard that this was the direction we were going.  I even made Fry Fluency Reads that were similar to the Dolch Fluency Reads that I mentioned I was finding much success with. I even decided that I was going to continue using the Dolch reads as it adds more fluency practice...AND when the words overlap in both sets, it's a different practice page.  There are NO duplicate reads.  You can click the images below to check them out!  (And they will be on sale tomorrow--8/22/16)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dolch-Fluency-Reads-The-Bundle-2431047

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fry-Fluency-Reads-Bundled-2618775

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fluency-Reads-Bundled-FRY-and-DOLCH-2618869


I keep these as a guided reading warm-up, for  book boxes, for homework practice, for one-on-one--they are by far my FAVORITE product I've created to date.  (Making Words rank right up there close too!)

After these were created, I got to thinking, I would like to have a check list to progress monitor their sight words...one that I can keep right at my fingertips...or a book that I can use to track their known words.  Seeing how I never know exactly what my schedule looks like, or what grades I'm servicing (since I'm Title One now)--I needed something simple for me to manage, something that I could share with co-workers and/or parents.  

I shared this with both a first and second grade co-worker who think that they can use what I came up with.
I divided the Fry words into 4 lists.  There are 25 words on each list.  I often try to fold in 5 new sight words with the words that they already know.   I think that arranging it like this will make it easy for me to help monitor their progress.  Also, since the sight word fluency reads I've created review previous Fry words, this will go hand in hand!

First, I've taken all the Fry words for the First Two Hundred and  put them all on one page for a quick check guide.  


Next, I created the booklet pages with 25 words per list.

This was the image BEFORE I fixed the word for that is running into my border.

I also took the Fry Phrases and created lists for them.   I came across 81 phrases for the First Hundred and 91 for the Second Hundred.  They were divided into four lists as well.


Maybe this will be an easy way for you to manage as well. 
 If so, you can click below to grab you a copy of the sets.


Click below for the check list for the First and Second Hundred Fry Words
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKeHYzTWlpWXRoQzQ

Click below for the Fry word Booklets.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKV09GZkF0UzZCWkk

Tell me in the comments--how do you keep track of your sight words?
Do you use Fry or Dolch?

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Back at It...

I have to keep asking myself, "Where did my summer go?"  
We didn't go anywhere.  We didn't do anything.  But, I honestly can't tell you where my time went.  I think it was probably spent on a ball field or two--or waking up early to get everyone up and at it so the darling daughter could get to Softball conditioning.  It wasn't a summer spent vacationing---but it sure did quickly vanish.
 I'm just not quite ready to let summer go.  

Don't get me wrong.  I LOVE my job.  I really do.  It's just to be able to feel like a family for a few weeks out of a year is HEAVENLY.  I get to see my kids, talk to my kids, play games---and not feel rushed to get everything done, plan lessons, clean house, do laundry, run 50 places during the week---it's just nice!
---even if sometimes I DID want a vacation from my own kids! :)  You would think with a 14 year old and a 10 year old that this wouldn't be the case---BUT some days---it most definitely was! Ohh that TOGETHERNESS! :)
So that brings me to the start of my school year.  I always have these thoughts that I'm going to work on school stuff during the summer.  However, that didn't get accomplished either.  I will chalk it up to the fact that it's because I'm not sure what grades I'm working with this year, or what subjects. True story.  I will probably be servicing 1st and 2nd...and probably back to doing reading AND math this year.  Regardless, I base my instruction around my students levels, so it's hard to guesstimate what to work on.

BUT---today---TODAY I DID work on something.  I woke up to this sweet email.  An email asking me if I had any other stories like this freebie I shared a while back:

The Little Cat Freebie-First Grade and Fabulous

You can click the image above to check it out. 

So I thought to myself...why not try another story?  After all, my kids started back to school today, and I was home with hubby.  If I made myself busy or at the very least ACTED busy, he would eventually find his way to the laundry and housework.

I thought about the what I could probably use for intervention with my students.  Our district adopted Fry Words for this school year.  I have already made Fry Fluency Reads like the Dolch Fluency Reads that I've shared on this post.  See link HERE.  You can check out the Fry Reads on TpT from this link HERE.

Since we are working with Fry words, I wanted to stick with using the first few words on the Hundred list.  I came up with this story called The Dog.

Several sight words are used throughout the story, 
as well as CvC words for decoding, and simple use of picture clues.

These are the words I focused on in this selection.

I also wanted to include a simple comprehension component.

Finally, just like in the story The Little Cat, I made sure to include some word work/sentence work.

If this looks like something that you could use for Back to School with your students, or for intervention groups, you can download this freebie on TpT.  
Check it out by clicking the image below.


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