How to teach sight words?

i have never heard of the term 'sight words', so thank you from me for asking the question.

With Liebling, the "tricky words" he had to learn I put into a story. Then Liebs read it to me. About his interests.

So if your child liked Dr Who, you could call your story "Where is Dr Who?"

Each page could be a picture of the Doctor poking his head out of a known place, followed by text. Such as:

He said "I am in the cup"
He said "I am in the cage"
He said "I am in the grass"

And so on and on and on. The changing word is the one that you have a picture for, so your child isn't "reading" that word, and you ask "where's the doctor?" every page. We sometimes do this as powerpoint shows, with text as the title then a picture beneath.

Once you've done that, then have flashcards or something to jumble up words that she's confident with - have a game to see who gets the most right. (And let her win the first one, at least.)

We don't do sight words here. ;)
My daughter has dyslexia, so every time she looks at the words they look different, there is no recognizing them, so sight word just further baffle and frustrate her. Instead we focus on those words she can break down and learn phenoically, as we usually have more luck with those for the most part. We still expose her to sight words and let her try, but we don't focus on them and just move on if she doesn't get it.

Guess I'm probably going to have to get on the sight word bandwagon with my DS starting school this year though. It's going to be interesting adapting two different styles of learning.

So tonight I was reading DD a book and every time one of the 5 weekly allocated sight words appeared I paused, pointed to the word and she filled in the gap.

Sometimes it'd be 'in the' other times it may have just been 'the' by itself etc.

Is that ok? I was thinking repetition x a million ;) may help?

That's a great way to do it.
Soon they will start sending home readers which are designed to use the golden words and repeat them lots.

Thank you Grug :)

Ok cool, I'm on the right track! Thank you :)