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Article Evaluation
Article: sight words

This article requires some improvement to be made in regards to general tone and overall language of the article.

The article seemed very biased and one sided and did not portray a neutral point of view of the method.

The article ends with a definition that would better serve in the article's introduction of topic. This definition should also be reworded to avoid confusion between sight words and sight vocabulary.

The article would also benefit from adding one or two more example of possible sight words and why learning this words would help an emergent reader. ~

Sight Words
Some research shows that the use of sight words does not relate to phonological awareness. The dual route theory states that the use of sight words as a reading strategy involves out-of-context memorization rather than the development of phonological skills. Instead, it is suggested that children first learn to identify individual letter-sound correspondences before blending and segmenting letter combinations.

MMichael Feedback
It really looks like you're off to a good start! I like that above you have all the things that need to be done in your eval which is great! Where you start writing in the section sight words, I'm not sure if you plan on putting this directly into the wikipedia article, but if you are I would be careful to remember we're writing an article and not a paper for class. I've been having a really hard time with this because I'm so used to writing an actual paper for classes and I need to make sure I remember I'm writing it for wikipedia. With that, you specifically mention a book and an editor and I'm not sure if Wikipedia articled really want us to do that. To be safe I would just take what the article says and paraphrase it and put that. If we're being honest I'm not sure if that's completely correct and the best feedback but that's what I've been doing and just wanted to bring it to your attention. :) Overall it really looks good though!~

Response to Feedback
Thank you so much for your helpful feedback! It's comforting to hear that I wasn't the only one having that problem. I will use your feedback to edit my writing so that it reads as more of an informative article than a narrative.