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-In the English language many common words have irregular spellings or phonic patterns that do not code well. We often refer to these as "sight words" and teach students to recognize them by sight without sounding out the letters (LaBerge & Samuels, 1974).+In the English language many common words have irregular spellings or phonic patterns that do not code well. We often refer to these as "sight words" and teach students to recognize them by sight without sounding out the letters (LaBerge & Samuels, 1974). This work began with Dolch and Fry who thought we best learn through meaning and not decoding
  
 Other researchers (Enri, 2005) have called for an expanded version of sight words that takes into account developmental stages in alphabetic principle and grapheme and sound mapping. Other researchers (Enri, 2005) have called for an expanded version of sight words that takes into account developmental stages in alphabetic principle and grapheme and sound mapping.
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