Reread the story

By rereading the story, you return the words that you've taken out of the context of the story back to it. Both you and the participant can read the story together, or you can read it or the participant can read it.

If possible, give the participant a copy of the story and the word cards to practice at home. You could ask them to think of other words from the story that they'd like to learn.

Teaching Sight Words

It is useful to teach sight words in a language experience exercise. However, you can teach sight words using anything including a newspaper article, brochure, etc. As long as there is a context to place the word in. Here is a quick and easy way to teach sight words.

• Ask the participant to pick out words that he/she would like to learn from appropriate material (language experience story, or other meaningful material).

• Type (or have the participant type) the material onto the SARAW WRITE program.

• Type each word underneath the material using a column list format. You may want to write the words on cards to reinforce kinesthetic learning.

• Read the entire selection.

• Ask the participant to pick a word card, read the word (you can assist if he/she has trouble doing this) and point to the correct word in the context material. If the participant has trouble doing this, assist him/her then ask that it be performed again.

• Repeat this with each word until the participant can recognize each word without the context of the material, and can place it within the context of the material.

• Read the entire selection.