Sight Words and Reading

Sight words and reading: the first book students read was My books appendix E which I remade from a Scholastic reproducible resource. Concepts big, small, head, English, math ... were presented as words and ideas. I focused on MY and BOOK. I reinforced my while telling them to get their books or pencils. Once they had them I told them to tell me, “my color pencils” or “my book.” By May, 2 months into the year, I began teaching sight words. I brought the sight words up talked about them wrote them on the board, had them read and repeat them with me. This worked alright, however, I think these kids are a bit of an exceptional case and even still while, it was my original intent on simply introducing the words to give them later reference. I now feel it would be better to have a more comprehensive plan on introducing these words and reinforcing them through reading. I feel I need to reorder the words to better reflect age appropriate reading. Many kinder books and picture story books have good stories but have poor word choices.