Sight words and high-frequency words. When the children used their knowledge of letters and sounds, they learned a number of words in the raps. Eventually, the high-frequency words became sight words for the children As their sight vocabulary grew, they searched the raps for pecific words and marked them in their individual books. When Barbara asked groups to find a high-frequency word re (e.g., the, and, to, a, she first asked what letter they thought the word began with. Then she had the children find the word in a page in their collections and put a finger under it. When everyone had found the word some children needed a friend's help, they marked it on the laminated page with a grease INFANT/TODDLER pencil, underlining it or putting a circle, square, triangle, or rect Becom angle around it. As children recognized more and more words from the raps Mon they wanted them written down.