Sight+Words

Once a student has built a large sight word vocabulary it will assist their understanding of what is being read, which leads to higher order thinking in Bloom’s taxonomy. Sight words are words that the reader will recognise and understand automatically. Once a student has a large ‘bank’ of sight words their reading will become more fluent. Therefore the student will not be decoding single words, rather they will be able to understand and analyse the text being read. One of the benefits that Foreman (2008) believes that assessing student knowledge of frequent words (or sight words) will advantage is:
 * Increasing the number of words indentified by sight reduces the frequency of hesitations and mistake, thus allows more fluency, which, in turn, will make it easier for the student to use language patterns in print to help identify new words.

Attached is an interactive sight word activity using basic sight words as well as a list of 100 commonly used sight words.

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Foreman,P.(2008). Inclusion In Action: Second edition; Cengage Learning.