sight word
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She has refused to practice the sight word flash cards, so she only knows a handful of them, but she is great at sounding out simple words and knows all the letter sounds.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2021
Crater, who calls herself a victim of the sight word method of teaching reading, learned to teach with phonics.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2018
Pupils recognize it at once as a sight word, and pronounce.
From How to Teach Phonics by Williams, Lida M.
Thus gradually increasing prominence is given to the discovery of new words by this analytic-synthetic process, and less time to sight word drills, until they are entirely omitted, except for the teaching of unphonetic words.
From How to Teach Phonics by Williams, Lida M.
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