Which statement about sight vocabulary assessment is correct?
A. Choosing a list of high frequency words to use as a teacher reference is a task that must be undertaken carefully since there is a great deal of variability across these lists in terms of which words are deemed to have the highest frequency of occurrence.
B. The major purpose of sight vocabulary assessment is to determine if a student can decode phonetically irregular words using structural analysis.
C. The most valid and reliable assessment of sight vocabulary are those published tests in which three or four words are printed by each item number, the teacher pronounces one of these, and students circle that word.
D. A test of sight vocabulary knowledge should be administered individually with the student reading to the teacher.
D
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