Stack 'Em Up!: A Virtual Sight Word Stacking Game
In this one-time class, students will practice reading common words via a virtual stacking game.
Miss Brittany, M.S.Ed
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(131)
What's included
1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade Kindergarten - 3
Beginner - Advanced Level
In this one-time class, students will practice reading sight words--commonly occurring words that can be recognized without sounding and blending the individual letter sounds. We will begin our session with a quick hello song to greet each learner by name, then move into a leveled sight word game. We will practice reading the words on virtual blocks, working to create stacks that reach the top of each slide. Each new level in our sight word game will involve progressively more blocks and more complex sight words. How many stacks will YOUR young learner build? After completing as many stacks as we can within the allotted time, we will take a moment to review the new words we've learned and share our thoughts about the session before singing a quick goodbye song. I value an emergent teaching style, in which I respond to student interests and preferences as much as possible during the course of each session. As such, the order and content of each activity may be modified to ensure that each young learner is as developmentally supported and intrinsically motivated as possible.
Learning Goals
-Students will practice decoding a series of commonly occurring sight words in English.
Other Details
Learning Needs
I hold professional licensure in Moderate Disabilities from PreK-8th grade, and have extensive experience implementing instructional supports for a wide variety of neurotypes. Feel free to reach out with any specific concerns or requests!
Pre-Requisites
Familiarity with practicing sight words in the English language, though not required, will provide students with the base they need to comfortably participate in this class.
Supply List
**These supplies are optional, but may enhance student engagement: -blank paper -writing implement
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined August, 2021
5.0
131reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Massachusetts Teaching Certificate
Master's Degree in Education from Wheelock College
I hold my MS in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College at Boston University, and I am professionally certified in Early Childhood, Moderate Disabilities, English as a Second Language, and Sheltered English Immersion in the state of Massachusetts. I have over ten years of teaching experience at the early childhood level in a wide variety of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and neurologically diverse settings--lab, private, public, home-based, non-profit, co-op, and virtual--throughout the Greater Boston area. In October of 2023, I completed additional training as a reading instructor through the Ignite Reading Science of Reading Certification Program. I am currently employed as a reading tutor during traditional public schools hours, providing one-on-one phonics lessons to students in grades 1 through 8.
As co-founder of the National SEED Project Emily Style so adeptly summarized in her 1988 essay "Curriculum as Window and Mirror", curriculum should function "both as window and as mirror, in order to reflect and reveal most accurately both a multicultural world and the student herself or himself". This means that it is intrinsically important for ALL educators--including those who may not be members of a marginalized group themselves--to expose every student, regardless of their personal identity markers, to a multiplicity of cultures and ways of being in the world. To ensure that I am up to this crucial task, I have continuously pursued and successfully completed the following graduate-level coursework related to multicultural, multilingual, inclusive, and antiracist instruction over the past seven years:
* Racial and Cultural Identities-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Introduction to Inclusive Early Childhood Education Settings-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Effective Sheltered English Instruction: Second Language Acquisition-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Impact of Special Needs: Early Childhood-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Mathematical Learning for Diverse Learners-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$11
per classMeets once
30 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 5-9
1-5 learners per class
