“(Here is) my kitchen kindergarten set up for letters, numbers and sight words,” group member Daniel Bintz says. “I use a laser pointer; other than that, pretty low tech.

These are books I created to help my little ones who were struggling with word boundaries, sight words and alphabet skills. They loved having their own books they could color, write on and keep in ...

Calling the words on these lists “sight words” is a bit of an aspirational misnomer. In research, a “sight” word is simply any word that a reader can recognize automatically, said Shanahan.