Sight Words Made Easy by EBLI 1.3

Review: EBLI Reading Adventure Apps

The EBLI Reading Adventure Apps aim to enhance reading, spelling, writing, and handwriting skills in both children and adults.

Designed as the 3rd installment in the series, the Sight Words Made Easy app focuses on teaching students to read and spell sight words accurately, including irregular high-frequency words and homophones. Targeted towards individuals with a foundational reading background, this app serves as a valuable progression for new readers who have already engaged with the Reading Adventures with Booker Series, specifically #1 EBLI Island and #2 EBLI Space.

Building upon the quality established by previous EBLI apps, Sight Words Made Easy offers a more advanced approach and incorporates instructional content suitable for learners of all ages, including adults. Through comprehensive guidance on irregular and regular words by sound, this app benefits readers at various proficiency levels by enhancing word reading precision, imparting advanced phonics knowledge, and boosting reading fluency and comprehension.

The multi-sensory learning activities and games provided by EBLI facilitate rapid skill acquisition in reading, improved handwriting, and discouragement of word-guessing habits during text reading.

The app introduces key EBLI concepts through preliminary activities:

• Up to 4 letters can represent a sound
• Sounds can have various spelling representations
• A single spelling may denote multiple sounds

Activities:

Sight Words

• Foundational Level: 13 sets with 4 words each
• Intermediate Level: 16 sets with 4 words each
• Advanced Level: 10 sets with 4 words each

Homophones

• Foundational Level: 25 sets with 2-3 homophones per set
• Intermediate Level: 25 sets with 2-3 homophones per set
• Advanced Level: 23 sets with 2-3 homophones per set

EBLI Activities:

• Tap and say
• Say and write
• Dot and dash
• Identify words
• List of words accompanied by pictures for vocabulary enrichment
• Dictation of sentences for typing practice
• Spelling and punctuation error correction exercises
• Sentence highlighting during app-reads for comprehension enhancement
• Peterson Handwriting integration (stylus recommended for iPhone-sized devices)

Skills and Concepts:

Skills:

• Segmenting sounds
• Blending sounds
• Phoneme manipulation within words
• Peterson Handwriting for proper letter formation
• Reading fluency development
• Writing proficiency in spelling and punctuation usage
• Instruction on homophones spelling and definition differences
• Sight word accuracy in reading through sound recognition

Concepts:

• Sounds make up words
• Promotion of common spelling for each sound representation
• Mandatory left-to-right word reading approach
• Top-to-bottom, left-to-right letter writing sequence
• Possibility of one sound represented by 1-4 letters
• Accurate reading of high-frequency words
• Multisyllable strategy incorporation
• Error analysis and correction emphasis
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