Seeing Stars

More of my fabric letters. Time consuming, but durable!

Seeing Stars word lists

Sight word fluency progress!

Mrs. K came up with the Seeing Stars fluency check. We were already doing some poetry to work on our fluency, but not all of the kids were thriving. To give them an extra push, she got out her Seeing Stars words (levels 100-1000), and devised a plan similar to the Giraffe Math.

If you're not familiar with Seeing Stars, it's a program to help beginning readers decode and use imagery and symbols to associate to sounds. For our purposes, we just used the word lists.

There are 10 lists with 100 words each (hence, Level 100 = 100 words mastered, Level 200 = 200 words mastered, etc.). Each page has four columns of 25 words each. At the beginning of each level, each student would get a level star. Then, when they master each column, they get a sticker. Once they have four stickers on their level star, they go up to the next level and repeat the process. We would call students individually while we were on the playground or when we needed fillers. We also set some time aside for fluency practice.

This was also very successful as students would ask to take lists home to practice, and beg to read their lists to us! I think seeing their progress was a huge motivator for even those who are reluctant to read. Some of our students finished level 1000, but unfortunately I didn't get a picture of our Super Stars because the walls had to be washed, so we took them down.