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What is the sight-reading strategy for toddlers?

At first, the sight-reading strategy appeals to their visual nature and they manage the alphabet and simple words easily. They then progress to “early reader books” and look at the picture (visual cues) and rely on their sight memory to get through, guessing the words that they don’t know.

Should sight-words be taught in primary schools?

Early primary school is focused on teaching the basic sounds associated with each letter in the English alphabet, with an emphasis on sounding out a word in order to capture its correct pronunciation and meaning. However, there are some pockets of the educational sector who still hold fast to teaching sight-words as the building blocks of literacy.

Is sight-reading or phonics better for reading?

It’s that eternal question which has been bandied about for the last 400 years of literacy instruction. Which is the better method for teaching children how to read: phonics or sight-reading? In most parts of the English-speaking world at this current moment in time, phonics are the go-to method for basic literacy instruction.

How does sight reading work?

At first, the sight-reading strategy appeals to their visual nature and they manage the alphabet and simple words easily. They then progress to “early reader books” and look at the picture (visual cues) and rely on their sight memory to get through, guessing the words that they don’t know.

Can visual learners learn too many words?

However, for visual learners, this method becomes something that is hugely over-relied upon and it soon fails them. There are simply too many words in the English language to recognise all of them by sight, and thus soon their confidence collapses and they fall behind peers who have learned decoding methods of reading.