Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Writing, Literacy & Typing. I would like to ask you to take a look at the Homeschool Resources I’ve shared and let me know if you’ve used any of these with your students.
Award-winning Essentials in Writing is an engaging homeschool writing curriculum on video. Systematic, step-by-step lessons are presented in small “chunks” and are modeled by the teacher that help students understand, apply and retain concepts.
Mrs. Perkins Dolch Words: Dolch Sight Words & More!– Grades K-3, which parental supervision
This website offers free activities based upon learning the “Dolch Sight Words.” As explained at the website:
The Dolch Word List was compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD, in 1948. Dolch compiled the list based on words used in children’s reading books in the 1930s and 40s. The list contains 220 “service words” that must be quickly recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The Dolch Word List is comprised of the most frequently used words in the English Language that make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text. Therefore, teaching The Dolch Word List is a crucial goal of education in grades kindergarten through 3.
At this website, the Dolch words are presented in a number of useful formats including:
- A story using all 220 Dolch sight words.
- Dolch Word Lists in either Word or in pdf format (and some in Power Point or audio).
- Templates to create Dolch handwriting worksheets, flashcards and games.
- Dolch Games – get several variations on Bingo boards using Dolch words.
- Free 35-page Dolch word activity booklet – the direct link is: http://www.mrsperkins.com/activities/Dolch_Activities.pdf
This user-friendly, ad-supported website is very focused on one topic – Dolch sight words – and covers that topic very well.
Touch-type Read and Spell is an award-winning, multi-sensory, highly accessible typing program that teaches touch-typing skills while also helping kids improve reading and spelling.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
