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[quote=Anonymous]You probably already know this, but learning sight words and phonics are not necessarily mutually exclusive.  Take the worth "the" for example.  In K, every kid learns the sound for "th".  They just have to memorize the e.  My school makes kids learn over 100 sight words.  But about 70% of these can be sounded out easily (words like "not, and, can, see, did, run").  They're called sight words, because we want kids to sound them out to learn them initially, but after a while, they should become automatic (thus the term "sight" word).  
Words like "where", "love" and "do", while not completely decodable, are partly decodable.  Since the first 100 sight words make up 25% of all written material, it does make sense to learn to decode these words to the point they are automatic and recognized on sight.

The problem becomes a big one when a) students aren't taught the phonics of these sight words and b) are expected to just memorize them all without the phonics and c) they aren't taught the phonics of all the other words.  [/quote]

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