sight word
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sight word (plural sight words)
- (education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
- Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.
- 2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191:
- 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.