

Pit boys against the girls, or the left side of the classroom against the right, to see who can read a sequence of words the most quickly. Count your students off in 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and then give each group turns in reading sight words.

Make copies of words your class has problems with and insert these copies at unexpected places in the sequence. (The last 400 words contain special Nightmare Roller Coaster graphics.) - Go forward, then unexpectedly backward. Page through the words slowly, then quickly, then slowly, as if the class is on an roller coaster.

See how many words your class can read in one, two or three minutes. Page through the words, while your students read them aloud. Put the program on a computer’s hard drive and project the words onto your classroom’s screen. Every tenth card contains a nonsense word which kids will have fun saying and which gives them additional practice in decoding word sounds: sploot, narp, bap, etc. For ease of reading, each syllable of a multi-syllable word is color coded. New readers focus on the first 5-10 words advanced readers master the last 800-1000 words. ES 1000 can be used from kindergarten through adult literacy programs. The more quickly students can read sight words, the more they will enjoy reading. Thus, the first word “the” is the most common English word, “to” the second word is the second most common word, and so on.
#SUPERSPEED 100 SIGHT WORDS HOW TO#
How to use Electronic SuperSpeed 1000 Electronic SuperSpeed 1000 (ES 1000) contains 1000 sight words arranged in order of frequency in English.
