Reply #13: What raccoon said. Here's a link re sight reading

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<snip> Sight Words: In kindergarten, your child will get a list of words to memorize. These words are called sight words because children learn to recognize them by sight. These are basic words that form sentence structures. If your child can read these words then he is better able to figure out the remainder of the sentence.

Sight words include articles, pronouns, verbs, colors, and numbers. Sometimes pure memorization is not enough. Your kindergartener may also have to sound out the words in order to learn them.<more>


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1423952/kindergarten_reading_skills.html