家長想從小建立兒童英語閱讀能力，便要做好三個基本功。除了和子女多認Vocabulary（生字），以及讓他們學習Phonics（英文拼音）之外，家長還可以教他們認讀Sight Words（視覺字）。學會常見的Sight Words後，連幼稚園小朋友都可以自行閱讀英文句子，甚至是英文圖書！以下是150個幼兒必學Sight Words，供各位家長參考。
Sight Words（視覺字）又名Dolch Words，是由美國教育家E. W. Dolch博士深入研究和分析兒童初級讀物後的發現。他發現某些單字在兒童圖書中經常重複出現，並整理出1000個這類的英文常用字。對於一些開始閱讀英文句子和書籍的小朋友，他鼓勵他們先認讀Sight Words。把Sight Words記住後，小朋友會在閱讀上有很大的成就感，學習動機也會大大提升。
小朋友學習Sight Words的困難之處，在於當中有很多抽象的單字，如be、off和if，還有一些單字是與時態（Tenses）和單複數型態（Singular And Plural）有關，要向小朋友單獨解釋這些字並不容易。因此家長要配合情境和例句加以解釋，幫助小朋友記憶Sight Words。
| a | about | all | am | an |
| and | any | as | are | after |
| again | at | away | be | big |
| been | boy | but | by | call |
| can | can't | car | cat | come |
| could | dad | day | did | do |
| done | down | each | eat | every |
| find | first | fly | for | from |
| get | girl | give | go | good |
| had | has | have | he | her |
| here | him | his | how | I |
| if | in | into | is | it |
| its | jump | just | know | like |
| let | live | long | look | made |
| make | man | many | me | mom |
| more | my | no | new | not |
| now | number | of | off | old |
| on | one | only | other | our |
| out | or | over | part | people |
| put | play | read | round | run |
| said | say | see | she | sit |
| show | some | soon | stop | take |
| than | that | the | there | them |
| then | there | these | they | this |
| time | to | too | two | under |
| up | us | use | very | was |
| want | water | way | we | well |
| were | what | when | where | which |
| who | why | will | with | words |
| would | write | yes | you | your |
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