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Sight Word Recognition

As you're sitting here reading this article, chances are that you aren't thinking for long about each individual word. You're simply recognizing the words "on sight" because they are familiar to you. Hence, you are "sight reading".

For children, sight word recognition is an important step to being able to efficiently learn to read. If they don't have to stop and consider what each word is, they will have the freedom to comprehend the meaning and context of sentences and paragraphs.

Consequently,it's critical for parents, babysitters, guardians, grandparents and educators to help beginning readers learn to instantly identify words.

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To acquire the habit of reading
is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all of the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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I have one word for you: "specialize." When I started my fulltime freelance writing career seven years ago, I employed what I now call the "saturation bombing" technique. I queried every magazine I could think of with a wide variety of ideas. At one point, I had 54 queries out- yet few were assigned. Those that were assigned covered the gamut of topics from business articles to bridal pieces to personal finance stories. Nearly every article concerned a subject new to me, so each time I wrote one, I spent hours researching and learning about the topic so I could write about it with authority.

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If you are interested in kids books ... work with kids, read to kids, have a library of children's books, I have a set of booklists organised, rather haphazardly!, by genre, age and need.

Here are the latest lists

The 2009 Indies Choice Book Awards,
St Patrick's Day,
Children's Choice Book Awards 2009Finalists,
Step-by-Step/Sequencing picture books,
The Newbery Medal 2009.

You can find the whole collection at http://www.consultpivotal.com/Booklists.htm

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