Six-Word Memoirs "Smith" asked dozens of writers "famous and obscure" to compose six-word memoirs; they wanted wordsmiths, old and new, to capture the essence of romance in half a dozen words. Press for this second book included a second appearance on "Talk of the Nation". The book also spent some time on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List". Released September 1, 2009, "I Can't Keep My Own Secrets—Six-Word Memoirs by Teens: Famous & Obscure," was the first "Six-Word Memoir" book devoted entirely to teenagers. "Smith" launched "Smith" Teens in June 2008. Soon after, it became a destination for teenagers to reveal their biggest secrets,
Sight word children first learn to identify individual letter-sound correspondences before blending and segmenting letter combinations. Exponents of synthetic phonics argue that children must first learn the alphabet, then the sounds represented by the letters, then the blends of those sounds, and that children should never memorize words as visual designs. Sight word Sight words, often also called high frequency sight words, are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print within three seconds without having to use any strategies to decode. Sight words don’t