1. An educational aid for developing sight-word vocabulary in a student, comprising: 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; and 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; wherein said reinforcement means is operable to allow the student to note each successive notation in said text as the student recites said text from memory, and is further operable to allow the student to match specified words and syllables to corresponding words and syllables in said text by using sight recognition.
1. An educational aid for developing sight-word vocabulary in a student, comprising: 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; and 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; wherein said reinforcement means is operable to allow the student to note each successive notation in said text as the student recites said text from memory, and is further operable to allow the student to match specified words and syllables to corresponding words and syllables in said text by using sight recognition. 3. The educational aid of claim 1, wherein said visual cues are placed below each syllable of said readable format text.