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For elementary special education students, start their literacy goals with sight words. Sigh word goals can begin with picture identification and record this on their data sheet. The next step is to do picture and word identification. You can then fade the picture out and just use functional sight words in special education. Another IEP goal is to match the picture and word. Grade level sight word goals are for students who work on grade level and spend more time in the general ed setting.

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Having a large sight word vocabulary helps students with reading comprehension & fluency. Easily add these activities in your sight words instruction today.

The reading process is very challenging. You have to rely on your vision, hearing, memory and judgement skills to gain a true understandi...

I was a junior in college and observing a kindergarten classroom for the first time. The room was filled with children scattered about working at their literacy stations. Through the noise my attention turned toward the sight word center where the teacher was performing sight word assessments during her reading group. She must have saw

Functional reading is critical for our older students, but can be tough. In this post I outline the steps for instruction with tools to help.

Using environmental print to navigate the world and interact with others is a critical life skill. Sometimes it's easy to get stuck on the IEP goals and how to write them effectively. This post talks about how to teach meaningful, practical and functional sight words to students with all types of disabilities. It also provides you with IEP goals that you can think about and modify as needed for your students. Finally it points you in the direction of ready-made resources yo... via…