Sight words
Words children are taught to recognise instantly; in science of reading terms, words stored for automatic recognition.
- Used in
- United States
- Topic
- Teaching and learning
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Related terms
- High-frequency words All four UK nations (details may differ) United States
- Words that appear very often in texts, such as the, and and was.
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