LEA BSV

LEA BSV (Language Experience Approach, Basic Sight Vocabulary)
Kids with high verbal intelligences will have a tough time learning basic sight words (went, they, into) by rote. But if you ask them to learn the sight words in context –in their own stories– they learn them quick and easily.

The boy who drew this picture is a first grader and fascinated by undersea stuff as well as dinosaurs. He did the picture first, then told me about the picture, which I wrote down. I read it back to him and he added more. I then asked him to read it, where he got 1 point for each word he read and I got 1 point for each word he couldn’t read yet. I then underlined some basic sight words and I pointed to each one, encouraging him to read the sentence it was in. We kept repeating this process until he knew the words when I covered up the sentence.