Child 1st - Sight Words for Children Improve Reading Skills & Stimulate Learning Appetite

Is your child falling behind in grade level expectations? Not recognizing words, or trying to sound out every word he comes to? Unable to blend sounds into words? Reversing, substituting, adding, or omitting sounds? These are common problems that face young children today. Fortunately, Child 1st can help.

At Child 1st, our product designers look at children first to discover how they learn most naturally. We integrate explicit phonics instruction with specific strategies (visuals, movement, storytelling, humor, rhyme, and patterns) to engage children with an array of learning strengths. CFP's products are also highly effective in teaching beginning readers, building a strong foundation for learning from the very start.

Among our many resources, we have the most advanced tools to help children with sight words. SnapWords® are multisensory Dolch sight words combined with other high frequency words. They help visual, right brained learners, and children with learning disabilities learn to read more easily. Although we call our products "sight words for kindergarten," you may teach our Dolch sight words to children of any age with great success.

Sight Words are easily defined as the most common words that comprise found in most children's texts. There is a big push in most schools for children to memorize these words so that they can experience success in reading. At Child 1st, our idea is not to replace a systematic phonics instruction curriculum and expect children to memorize 306 words. Our approach is different. For children who have difficulty in working on left-brain functions, we embed cards/visuals into the letters and sight words, allowing the child to focus on what he's reading. This way, children will learn good phonics strategies, combined with visuals, will help make them fluent readers. Children can practice their sight words as often as needed, using our decodable text books, all in a way that is fun and easy.

For any child who struggles in reading, adding the visual and kinesthetic elements is like giving him a friendly, non-threatening approach that is not a reminder of past failure. Some children do not successfully learn to read the expected way: they might not understand decoding, might not have a good retention of sight words, but giving them visuals and motions as additional pathways for learning can make all the difference in the world. Moreover, for non-English speakers, our sight words greatly enhance the learning experience as the visual becomes a vital memory prompt to meaning. At first, children might say the word in their own language, but over time, they will make the transition to English words!

Child1st sight word cards propel children into reading. No matter how difficult reading has seemed before. For those children who cannot decode, are stuck in the decoding stage, or who have little short term memory, SnapWords® are the answer. Providing multisensory reading instruction is vital for Learners with Dyslexia, Aspergers, Autism, ADD, Reading Comprehension Problems, Visual Learners, and other Right Brain Learners. We provide a path to reading success using explicit phonics instruction combined with visual, kinesthetic (body movement), and tactile elements that provide multiple channels into the brain.