Learning to Read With The Word Song is a workshop designed to teach the basic sight words through music and rhythm. Teachers will learn how music can make learning sight words easier to retain, transfer, and apply. The Word Song will teach the following concepts: how to pronounce the sight words, how to read the sight words, how to spell the sight words, and how to divide the sight words into syllables. The manual The Word Song is a companion resource and it is available for purchase.

TEACHER OBJECTIVES:

• To utilize music in the teaching of sight words
• To teach sight words so that they are easily retained, transferred, and applied

TEACHER OUTCOMES:

• Teachers will utilize music in the teaching of sight words.
• Teachers will teach sight words so that they are easily retained, transferred, and applied.
• Teachers will facilitate student-created sentences, paragraphs and stories.