Sight Words & Social Thinking

Last week I began to administer sight word assessments that revealed a need for most students - practicing sight words. I'm linking two documents here that will provide what you need if you can find the time at home to work on automatically recognizing these 150 words. They comprise a large percentage of  words encountered in text and when students have to stop and use strategies to figure out these words it impacts fluency and more importantly, comprehension.

1. Sight Words
2. Learning Sight Words - practice ideas 

We continue to work on working together and improving social interactions in our tribe here at school using social thinking as a backbone for developing empathy. We talked about how others are thinking when people do and say certain things and created a public record to remind us what is important when working in a group of 17.  Here is what they came up with Friday to address some behavior that was negatively impacting our learning: