Sight Words 1 Pro helps you teach students who are learning to read and spell to automatically recognise and understand the 200 most common words in English.
Sight Words 1 Pro uses a unique, highly effective teaching method to improve word recognition, reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge. It was developed by Dr. Bartek Rajkowski, PhD, a speech-language pathologist specialising in reading difficulties.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Requires iPad 2 or higher
- Although students love using it, Sight Words 1 Pro is not just a game - it is a powerful and fully customisable teaching tool. Please take some time to experiment with it yourself before trying it with students!
The past several decades of research have provided conclusive evidence that competent readers are skilled in using letter-sound knowledge to work out (decode) unfamiliar words when reading. Teaching methods that begin by teaching students letter-sound relationships (synthetic phonics methods) are known to be superior to other approaches in teaching reading, regardless of whether students do or do not have reading difficulties. Decoding skills are crucial for self-teaching, as they may be used to work out regular words (words with regular sound-spelling patterns, such as ‘stop’ and ‘flight’) however they are not as useful for learning the approximately 20% of English words with irregular spellings (words such as ‘who’ and ‘said’).
Research suggests that in addition to being taught to decode, students should be explicitly taught to recognise common words, especially those with irregular spellings. Learning to instantly recognise highly frequent words helps students to develop fluency in reading. Sight Words 1 Pro uses a patent pending, self-adjusting, multisensory teaching method to teach beginning and struggling readers to rapidly, automatically and accurately recognise the most common sight words in English.
Whether you are a teacher, parent or reading specialist, we are confident that Sight Words 1 Pro will quickly become a favourite teaching tool. For more information about the program, please see www.readingdoctor.com.au.
Please note: teaching students sight words before they have learnt basic decoding skills is NOT recommended, and not supported by research! Teaching sight words should be a complementary strategy to assist the development of fluency as part of a systematic, phonics based method of reading instruction.
If you have any questions or need help, please don't hesitate to contact us!
If you haven't got this app ... you need to get it!!!This app is a great find. I am using it with literacy intervention kids and also mainstream. It is self monitoring and self correcting!!!It has a facility to make custom list to work on for individual children or particular reading materials.there are 200 S.V. words in this app, if it was extended t 400 " most used" words it would be perfect!!Have had some success with spelling using this app. After students have used a "group" of custom words 5/6 times, and are using them in reading tasks; I have used them in dictation and the kids have been able to spell them as well - a happy surprise..........
Excellent Teaching Value
Flambeau123
Reading Doctor apps like this one have excellent teaching value. The error correction process is helpful. The clear graphics and simple instructions made the app very student friendly for children of various ability levels. Light to Learning
Love it!
Doris94
Another brilliant app! Complements the other related apps... Letter Sounds1and2, and Word Builder. My students love it. It has built that fluency/automaticity in their letter sounds and sight words. Well done and thank you.
Reading doctor sight words
A load of ....
I am really disappointed as there are faults with this all. In the 4 letter words one word doesn't even load! Sometimes the program doesn't load. I have the whole bundle and love the sound packages and I use it all the time with the children I teach. Please fix and I have recommended the program to parents.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and so sorry for the delay in responding! The app was updated shortly after your review and we hope you haven't experienced any issues since. If so, please contact us at support@readingdoctor.com.au and we'd love to help.
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Information
Seller
Reading Doctor Pty Ltd
Size
114.1 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
