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NameInstitutionCourseDateWhat are the high-frequency words? Why should they be taught as sight words?These are words that frequently occur in any written material; they offer a significant contribution to the meaning of a sentence, yet they have so little sense on their own (Tompkins, 2017), for example, "and," "as', etc. They should be taught as sight words to increase the reading fluency of the children. How are automaticity, speed, and prosody related to fluency?They are components of fluency, with prosody being the critical component; it’s the emphasis, rhythm, and intonations given to words or a sentence when loudly reading them. Automaticity refers to text processing; this is when a child can effortlessly recognize words, and speed refers to how fast a child can realize words when reading (Topmkins, 2017).Explain the four word-identification strategiesInstant recognition – a mature reader can effortlessly recognize words fast and accuratelyWord structure clues - these are groups of letters that frequently occur in terms that are generally perceived as cluster words by the mature readers. Context clues – used by students in