Sight Words

• are words that the learner can recognize and understand immediately
• are generally taught as whole words

The four types of sight words:

1. Survival words
   danger, exit, emergency
   
   
2. Service words
   the, a, what, where, when, why
   
   
3. Irregularly spelled word
   laugh, have
   
   
4. Introductory words that could be used in word patterns
   
   • eat (could enable the tutor to teach beat, meat, and seat)
   • day (bay, hay, lay, may, say)

Ruth Johnson Colvin, I Speak English (Syracuse, New York: New Readers Press, 1997), p. 106.