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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimpshian As a Second Language
Lesson 5
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Basic Reading
Sight Recognition
• Add 'EM Up
Before the activity begins, obtain a deck of playing cards. Remove all of the kings, queens, jacks and jokers from the deck of cards. For
this activity, aces have the value of "one." Give two playing cards to each student. Mount the sight word cards on the chalkboard. Say a
num ber between two and eighteen. Any student or students who have two cards that add up to the num ber you said must identify a sight
word you point to. In this ac tivity, the suits of the cards are not important. The students may change playing cards periodically during the
ac tivity.
• Blank Chalkboard Reading
Mount all of the sight word cards on the chalkboard, in a vertical column. Read all of the sight words with the students, from the top to the
bot tom. Then, remove the last sight word card and read the list of sight words once again, including the "missing" sight word. Then, re -
move another sight word card and repeat this process. Continue until the students are "reading" the col umn of sight words from a blank
chalkboard. This activity may be repeated more than once by mixing and re-at taching the sight words to the chalkboard.
• What's Your Sequence
Provide each student with four blank flashcards. Write four sight words on the chalkboard. Each student should write the same sight words
on each of his cards (one word per card). When the stu dents' cards are ready, have them arrange their sight word cards in a specific
sequence on their desks (each student should determine his/her own se quence of words). Then, say a sequence of the four words. Any
student or students who have their sight words in the same se quence as you said, win the round. The winner or winners of this ac tivity
are those students who col lect the greatest number of "wins." The students may change the sequence of their sight word cards af ter each
round of the ac tivity.
• Win, Lose, Or Else!
Give one sight word card to each of two students. The students should stand in front of the chalkboard. They should then illustrate the
sight word they have, using chalk on the chalkboard. When a student’s illustration is finished, have the other students identify it. Repeat
with other pairs of artists, until all of the students have participated.
• Overhead Run-On
Before the activity begins, write all of the sight words on an overhead transparency - leaving no spaces between the words. You may wish
to add "nonsense" letters between the words. Place the transparency on an overhead projector, facing the chalkboard. The words should
be projected onto the chalkboard. Have two students stand beside the chalkboard. Say a different sight word to each of the two students.
They should then use chalk to circle the sight words on the chalkboard. Repeat with other pairs of students until all of the sight words have
been identified in this way.
• Activity Sheet
Photocopy an activity sheet from the Student Support Materials. Provide each student with a copy of the activity page.
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