SIGHT WORDS?

What is a sight word and why are they called sight words? Interesting subject!

"Google states that a sight word is a commonly used word that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode." Sounds like a lazy way to study and not learn.

Memorize? You should NEVER memorize what you are trying to study! You read to learn and retain the information, so you can use what you just read. How do you use words you memorized? I would really like to know.

In phonics, you learn how to sound out each letter before you learn anything else and once you have the sounds correct, you show the letters in words you know the sound to, and if the child or person doesn't know what the word means, they look it up in a dictionary.

It is actually very simple, you just have to do it the correct way.