14. An educational method for developing sight-word vocabulary in a student, comprising the steps of: providing a non-syllabified readable format text which is adapted to be or is already memorized verbatim by the student, said text having one or more words and each word having at least one syllable, and said text including a series of notations, each notation denoting at least one letter of said text, wherein portions of said words that require extended pronunciation are presented in a visually extended format so as to emphasize phonetic structure; providing a reinforcement means, separate from said text but adapted to be used together with said text, for reinforcing the student's sight recognition of words and syllables from said text; and having the student recite each word or syllable of the readable format text which the student can recite from memory while visually following along each successive notation corresponding to that word in the readable format text.
14. An educational method for developing sight-word vocabulary in a student, comprising the steps of: providing a non-syllabified readable format text which is adapted to be or is already memorized verbatim by the student, said text having one or more words and each word having at least one syllable, and said text including a series of notations, each notation denoting at least one letter of said text, wherein portions of said words that require extended pronunciation are presented in a visually extended format so as to emphasize phonetic structure; providing a reinforcement means, separate from said text but adapted to be used together with said text, for reinforcing the student's sight recognition of words and syllables from said text; and having the student recite each word or syllable of the readable format text which the student can recite from memory while visually following along each successive notation corresponding to that word in the readable format text. 17. The educational method of claim 14, wherein said visual cues are placed below each word of said readable format text.