Why are Sight Words Important?

 Sight words are very important for young readers to learn because they come up very often in reading. Most of reading is actually made up of the same 100 words!! (references say about 50%) Most sight words due not follow the same rules of sounding out that we use to teach other words for our students to read. These words also cannot often be illustrated. Try to draw the meaning of the word "the". Impossible, right? If we can teach our students sight words, they can spend more time learning more difficult words and continue growing as readers.