#Childrens star charts free printable how to#
#Childrens star charts free printable series#

Optional: A couple dollars for foil stars (with a bunch left over) I know she’ll be through them in no time!Ĭost: Free printable.

#Childrens star charts free printable how to#

She’s already trying to see which of the sight words she knows how to read on page 2. We made oatmeal raison cookies for her reward. My daughter just finished her first page today. If she forgets any of those, I write them on a little post-it note and put them in the “probation area.” Then we wait at least 15 mintues and I have her show me that she can remember those words in order to take them off probation. Before she can redeem her reward, though, she needs to show that she STILL remembers all the words from the previous rows. The way the chart works is that every time my daughter completes a row of sight words, she earns the reward at the end of the row. However, if your child thinks memorizing sight words using this reward system is fun, I don’t think it does any harm.

It’s still more important for reading to be thought of as a fun activity than for kids to be able to read words off index cards. I still don’t love the idea of forcing kids to learn sight words if it ever starts to kill their love of learning. It has cemented in her mind certain common words so that she doesn’t have to spend extra brain cycles trying to decipher them. This sight word star chart has really gotten her thinking about how words are spelled. (I’m the elephant, she’s Piggie.) However, while she can usually read the sight words in context, she still sometimes has trouble when she sees just a single word on a page, even if it’s something as simple as “of.”

#Childrens star charts free printable series#

I think she’s learning a lot of sight words just from reading this series with me. If he got to be bribed for learning, my 6 year old didn’t understand why SHE shouldn’t get a few benefits as well.įor the past several months, she’s been loving the Elephant and Piggie series. The entire reason why I made this star chart was because I wanted to motivate my 8 year old to learn his multiplication tables.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using this “organic exposure approach.” (I made that term up.) However, my 6 year old is loving this star chart. At 8 years old, his spelling might not be the best, but he learned all the standard sight words just through reading. With my oldest, I never really made a big deal about sight words.