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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sight word en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
    • 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. 2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191:
    • Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.

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