When teaching a child to read, sight words and high-frequency words are all important. But what’s the difference? Find out what they are and how to teach them. Let’s say this up front: there are many ...

This article was written by Dr. Aimee Ketchum, OTD, OTR/L, a pediatric occupational therapist in the NICU at UPMC hospital, the owner/operator of STEM Starts Now early child development program and ...

Learning sight words has never been this easy! Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words ...

This article was originally published in 2020. Ehri (2020) offers a rationale for implementing systematic phonics instruction to help students learn essential skills for reading words. Research has ...

Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words" or "star words". A new reader finds sight ...