SnapWords: Learning Sight Words With Using Your Whole Body
My students need 1 class set of SnapWords, sight word cards with embedded pictures that teach sight words using body movement to captivate kinesthetic and tactile learners.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Brown's classroom raised $222
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
I am a teacher to 24 fun-spirited, curious, hands-on, and loving first graders. My students enter the school building each day excited to learn and hopeful that they will have learned enough to be able to share what they discovered for the day with someone else in another classroom, with a friend on the bus, or even at home with their families. They attend a Title I school where over 80% of the students receive free or reduced lunch and are from low-income families. Did I mention the majority of their primary home language is Spanish? My goal as a teacher is to teach my 24 active learners using kinesthetic resources that help to increase the comprehension of lessons for all students in order to compensate for any difficulty the students might face in their journey as English Language Learners and rising scholars. My students enjoy sharing news with anyone who offers a listening ear, and together our goal is to give people, friends, teachers, administration and all others something meaningful worth listening to.
My Project
Many of my students are struggling to retain the necessary 60 sight words all first grade students are required to learn by the end of the school year and the 39 sight words learned from kindergarten the previous year. My students need a more visual and kinesthetic approach to learning the words than by simply flipping index cards with the sight words on them and asking them to recall the word.
The SnapWords card kit will offer a unique alternative to learning sight words through pictures and body movement, and were specially designed for struggling readers, Special Education students and English Language Learners in mind.
They will help my class filled with majority English Language Learners and struggling readings make learning sight words accessible by connecting words with a meaningful visual representation. The SnapWords will be incorporated in our daily morning routine and should help to incorporate more right-brained learners and kinesthetic/ tactile learners to learn through visual hooks.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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