The ability to recognize a word without analysis is called sight word recognition.

• A. Text readability
• B. VAKT
• C. Rubric
• D. Sight word recognition

Answer: (D)

The ability to recognize a word instantly, without having to sound it out, is sight word recognition. This skill comes from repeated exposure to common words, so the brain can identify them by sight rather than by decoding each letter and phoneme. When readers recognize words quickly, they spend less time decoding and more time understanding the sentence as a whole, which helps reading fluency and comprehension.

Text readability refers to how easy a text is to read overall, considering factors like sentence length and vocabulary, not the instant recognition of individual words. VAKT is a learning-style framework unrelated to how we recognize words in reading. A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate performance, not a reading process. So the term that best captures the idea of recognizing words without analysis is sight word recognition.