A Closer Look at Sight Work Readers

Sight Word Readers is one of my most popular series. I feel confident that these books can add valuable support to any reading and writing program.

Sight words are those words beginning readers should instantly recognize. These high-frequency words compose up to 75% (!) of the words that children encounter in text and use in their own writing. Current research supports practicing sight words in isolation, but more powerfully in the context of phrases, short sentences and lots of reading and rereading of familiar texts and books. (Great resource: The Fluent Reader by Timothy V. Rasinski)

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