#20: Stop Drilling Sight Word Flashcards!
If you’re like so many teachers I know, you’ve practiced sight word flashcards with your students a MILLION times, but when the test rolls around at the end of the week, your students STILL struggle. Why?! There’s one critical missing piece.
IN THIS EPISODE, we’ll talk about…
- Three quick and simple tweaks that will help students learn sight words 10X faster (SPOILER ALERT: They work for sight words too!)
- The hidden problem with traditional sight word flashcards
- Why seeing a word 5,000 times doesn’t help students memorize it
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