You can go to http://www.kid2020.com/ … they sell this set of 2 DVDs which contains all of the 220 Dolch sight words. This is supposedly the ONLY DVD out there which contains ALL of the 220 sight words. I felt very lucky for having found this DVD; why? Because i had been trying for a long time to teach my son his dolch sight words with no success; he would show no interest. I had him watch this DVD (happily) for some time and then I tested him. To my pleasant surprise, he knew all his Dolch sight words effortlessly, which really helps with the reading. Otherwise it is so difficult to teach them these words, since there is no picture you can associate with the words.
The DVD itself contains good graphics … there is a different/unique graphic for each word, which helps you remember it. There are some parts which can be a little too much, according to my sister-in-law, but after she saw the results with my son, she ended up borrowing these DVDs for her own daughter. (Like there are some parts which can be boring with the little girls dancing with the words, but still, your child will be learning).
I would recommend these DVDs to anybody, because they will give good results. And I was recently going through their website - I think that they have also come up with a new Maths DVD, which i may try for my son. It would be a good review of addition, subtraction, etc.
"Dolch sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language. Sight words make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text. Therefore, teaching The Dolch Word List is a crucial goal of education in grades kindergarten through 3. "
(I copied this defintion from a website)
This includes words like: “this, that, there, here, when, if, but, from, you, myself, with”, etc, etc.
Thanks a lot. The three links are excellent. I had a pshycology teacher at high school that mentioned that when you repeat the words many times they stay very easily in your brain. Here they do that but with music and a lot of rythm. The music and images on the kid2020 dolch words DVD are very nice.
Even in the math product they seem to have done a very goog work to keep childrens attention. Tell me if you get the math product how did it went.
Thanks again.
Those look great. There is also a set of DVD’s called “Meet The Sight Words”. Kind of along the same lines.
Thanks, I love hearing about new products that I hadn’t thought of before
I forgot to add that you can find these DVD’s on Amazon. I love Amazon most of the time because a lot of things will qualify for free shipping and no tax. :biggrin:
I believe that I purchased mine straight from the kid2020 website. I am also an Amazon.com shopper like you but I think that DVD wasn’t available there. But the kid2020 , as far as i remember, were very good with the shipping and taxes (like Amazon), but you may want to double-check on that … as I got mine some time back!
and 2010BEBES- I will definately share my experience on this forum if i end up using the Math DVD!
Here is a link to the 600 Fry Instant words, which are the 600 most used words in language. I guess they are Dolch words. This same link gives short phrases to teach your children that contain the 600 most commonly used words. The link to the phrases is at the bottom of the page. I’m so glad I found this:
Thankyou luckylucy for that excellent link! I will definately use it as a reference as I try to come up with different new words to teach my son…karma to you!
