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Calling the words on these lists “sight words” is a bit of an aspirational misnomer. In research, a “sight” word is simply any word that a reader can recognize automatically, said Shanahan.

Sight words, on the other hand, are those words that students recognize by sight–without the need to stop and decode the word–when reading. For example, “the” is a high frequency word as well as a ...

“(Here is) my kitchen kindergarten set up for letters, numbers and sight words,” group member Daniel Bintz says. “I use a laser pointer; other than that, pretty low tech.