two major concerns with sight words are: (1) memorizing sight words is labour intensive, requiring around 35 trials per word, and (2) teachers who focus...

The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words (also known as sight words), compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the...

etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography...

language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of...

measure an individual's accuracy and fluency regarding two efficiencies; Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) and Phonemic Decoding Efficiency (PDE). SWE measures...

whole-word or look-say method of word recognition (also called sight reading). The Dick and Jane primers introduced new readers to one new word on each...

100(4), 589-608. Ehri, L.C. (1992). Reconceptualizing the development of sight word reading and its relationship to recoding. In P. Gough, L. Ehri & R. Treiman...

In music, sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music...

ISBN 978-1-4066-1021-5. Seidenberg, Mark (2017). Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It. New York...

linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write' and the suffix...

internal speech typically made when reading; it provides the sound of the word as it is read. This is a natural process when reading, and it helps the mind...

help to differentiate units of meaning (morphemes). Separating the spoken word "cat" into three distinct phonemes, /k/, /æ/, and /t/, requires phonemic...

They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels. Children with hyperlexia...

myth of whole-word reading" (also: sight words), saying it has been refuted by recent experiments. "We do not recognize a printed word through a holistic...

commonly called "misspellings". A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik"...

myth of whole-word reading" (also: sight words), saying it has been refuted by recent experiments. "We do not recognize a printed word through a holistic...

of all Europe, is Virgil." In this instance, though, Eliot said that the word had different meanings in different surroundings and that his concern was...

noted that, in Russia and Germany, teachers used word frequency counts to match books to students. Word skill was the best sign of intellectual development...

Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) is a pedagogical technique involving the scientific investigation of the spelling of words. SWI considers morphology, etymology...

characters instead of syllables per word. Although opinion varies on its accuracy as compared to the syllable/word and complex word indices, characters are more...

comprehension relies on two abilities that are connected to each other: word reading and language comprehension. Comprehension specifically is a "creative...

difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Characteristic features of dyslexia are difficulties...

before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly...

phonological awareness, and though they can develop such skills, often rely on sight word vocabulary knowledge rather than phonological awareness skills to decode...

example, Jacques Derrida in Ulysses Gramophone devotes eighty-six pages to the word "yes" in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, an effort which J. Hillis Miller describes...

familiar words by accessing them directly from memory––a process Ehri called sight word reading. Since her retirement in 2018, Ehri has continued advising students...

parameters, such as word count, number of different words, number of high-frequency words, sentence length, sentence complexity, word repetitions, illustration...

while later readers introduced other vocabulary, including non-phonetic “sight words”. This was the first reader published with the idea of having one...

Word recognition, according to Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) is "the ability of a reader to recognize written words correctly and...

is a list of notable alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United Kingdom. Many more sightings have become known since the gradual...