Case Study: The Fry Sight Word Inventory

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The Fry sight-Word Inventory provides a 1000 word list in order of difficulty. During the assessment the student performed at a lower level. She said many of the words in the second and third grade set of 100 words incorrect. There were quite a number of hesitation and fixes, which was an indicator that these were not sight words for her. Decoding and analysis strategies were applied, which made her hesitate on words. I noticed as she read that she was confused with words that had “ro”, like “from” and would switch the letters around when she pronounced it. So indtead of “from” she would say “form”.

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