Phonics

Along with phonics and decoding skills, sight words (also called "high frequency words") are the building blocks of a young reader's reading skills.

We try to help students memorize sight words (learning them "by sight") for two reasons:

When students are learning to decode and to spell, the invariably come up against irregular sounds and words and letters that have multiple sounds (depending on context, or on the particular word).

One set of commonly confused words includes words that make the J sound (as in jelly).