Snowball Sight Words
'Snowball Sight Words' provides boardgames where students progress around the board reading high-frequency sight words aloud as they go.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to read and write high frequency words and other familiar words.
- We are learning to read and write high frequency words.
- We are learning to use visual memory to read and accurately spell high frequency words.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLY14
9
Read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words
AC9E1LY14
9
Read and write an increasing number of high-frequency words
ACELA1817
8.4
Know how to read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words
ACELA1821
8.4
Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words.
ENe-5A
old
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
EN1-5A
old
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
ENE-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
ENE-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
ENE-PHOKW-01
new
Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
ENE-REFLU-01
new
Reads decodable texts aloud with automaticity
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-REFLU-01
new
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
VCELA157
Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name
VCELA184
Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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