The Dolch sight word list is a list of 220 words that make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text.  Most of these words are “service words” that must be quickly recognized in order to read fluently.  Many of the words cannot be sounded out and they need to be learned by “sight”.  Because the words must be identified quickly (just like a popcorn kernel pops quickly) many teachers tell their students that these words are “popcorn words”.  The words just need to “pop”.  Our little kindergarteners and first graders love this concept and you can have tons of fun using the popcorn analogy to teach sight words.  When you download the Dolch 220 Popcorn Words file,