Sounding Out the Sight Words: An Alternative to Rote Memorization

Sounding Out the Sight Words introduces the phonetic concepts at work in the 220 Dolch words and 95 Dolch nouns, a total of 315 of our most common words, in sixty-seven simple lessons. With these instant lessons, rather than teaching one new sight word each day for your child to memorize, you teach one bite-size phonics concept each day. Each lesson is designed for a busy parent or teacher to deliver in two to ten minutes, simply by reading aloud the brief lesson on the back and helping the student sound out the sample words on the front. In sixty-seven lessons, instead of learning sixty-seven Dolch words, students gain the tools to read all 315 as well as thousands of other words!
<P>Sounding Out the Sight Words was created in collaboration between Logic of English author Denise Eide and parent Cindy Kringelis. The initial inspiration and structure were Cindy's; she wanted to help her daughter master the sight words taught by her school and, after reading Denise's book, Uncovering the Logic of English, created this series of "instant lessons" to help educators and parents teach the Dolch words logically through phonics using the concepts she had learned.
<P>With the methodical approach in these lessons, you can deliver sound instruction while refreshing your own understanding of the concepts necessary to read these common words, providing expert coaching as your student learns to read and spell with ease.

Denise Eide is an educator, author, speaker, and curriculum designer. She has worked in the field of literacy instruction since 1995. Her specialty is teaching reading and spelling to educators and parents by helping them understand the logic of English and demonstrating teaching methods that ensure success for students of all learning styles. Her desire is for these methods to be available to all students, parents, and educators, leading to a dramatic reversal in America's literacy crisis. She lives near Rochester, Minnesota. <P>Cindy Kringelis is a parent who set out to discover the framework of English words. After watching the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee finalists, she began to wonder what those students knew about spelling that could make spelling easier for her child and even herself. In Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide, she found the framework she had been looking for. She realized that her daughter's struggles with words stemmed from concepts that she had never been taught, such as S may say /s/ or /z/. She organized the concepts into lessons in Sounding Out the Sight Words with the goal of helping her daughter and countless other students and parents understand the clear, simple concepts that underpin the Dolch words, thus helping students learn to read and spell with ease.