FLASHCARD · SIGHT WORDS · AGES 4–5 YEARS
The Flashcard for Preschoolers
The most-used word in English gets a card of its own, so it is worth meeting early.
How the card helps
The book with the word on its cover shows where the belongs: right in front of something you can name.
A quick game
Read a short rhyme aloud and tap the card each time you say the. Count the taps at the end.
What it teaches
Your child learns to hear a tiny word that hides in front of nearly every thing-word.
Print it like this
Print it at eye level on the bookshelf, where the busiest word belongs.
One more idea
Play hunt the the: read a line aloud and let your child stop you whenever they catch it.
Teach it, step by step
Want the full walkthrough? Open the lesson for “The” on the Learning Path.
From the Sight Words (Class 29) class on the Learning Path.
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