In basal reading, words are generally categorized into two classes: one, those that follow the rules of phonics for reading/decoding and two, those that don’t. For the latter, they are called sight words. They are called sight words because students learn them according to how they look like. Students who have learned a lot of sight words read these words automatically by merely looking at them as opposed to phonologically decoding them. Most basal readers who have spent much time practicing reading phonic words eventually become so familiar reading them that they have come to the point that they no longer need to read/decode these words using phonics. The mere sight of these words automatically brings sound and meaning into the reader’s mind. In other words, sight words in this context simply refer to the words that the reader can read and not to the actual sight words per se. To summarize, a student at this level has very limited vocabulary which hinders his/her reading comprehension.