sight word
sight word noun: a word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
Noun
sight word (plural sight words)
- A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
- Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.
- Aside from the handful of words directly taught by teachers, every sight word was once not a sight word; at least once its identity had to be figured out through some combination of decoding and context skills.2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191
Forms of sight word
| plural | sight words |
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Questions about sight word
- What does sight word mean?
- Sight word means a word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
- What part of speech is sight word?
- Sight word is a noun.
- What is the plural of sight word?
- The plural of sight word is sight words.
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