Sight words are words in our vocabulary that we recognize instantly. We are able to go from the printed form to the word to the spoken form automatically without using any other type of word analysis.
any word can be a sight word for students. If the student can recognize the word instantly without applying any form of word analysis, then the word is in their sight vocabulary. Some students have problems recognizing basic sight words, that is words of high utility that make up a high percentage of the words in most reading material.
Many of our students sight words vocabulary is not at their their academic level. These students may need some form of intervention to help bring their sight word vocabulary up to grade/form level. Students are said not to be at their sight level if they cannot recognize 95% of the words in books written at their level. These students are at a great disadvantage, since they will have to analyze more words than normal readers.
Basic sight words are words that occur frequently in most material that students encounter. There are several list available of basic sight words that teachers can use to assess their students' recognition of sight word. Because these word appear frequently in text it is important that students can recognize them instantly, if not they will not be able to become fluent readers.
Some of the basic sight words that students often confuse are those will similar beginnings, such as: when, where, and what or this, that, and those.
Tomorrow I will be discussing assessing students' sight vocabulary.
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