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![]() > This will help these new words eventually become “sight words,” or words a student can recognize instantly. > Students also need to continue practicing decoding (reading) and encoding (writing) these words to “make them stick.” > Instead, we need to activate 3 different parts of our students' brains (the sounds, spelling, and meaning of a word). > Unfortunately, research shows that this is not the path to true word mastery! > Sometimes kids learn high frequency words through rote memorization / visually learning what a word looks like. Here's a little background on effective high frequency word learning: This High Frequency Words Worksheets Pack for the Dolch first grade words makes all of this easier! This bundle is for teachers who want to give their students meaningful activities so that they can master high frequency words quickly - and improve their reading fluency! Click on the underlined links below to print lists of these words.Getting students to learn and remember high frequency words can be very challenging! It's also difficult to find meaningful worksheets for high frequency words (you might call them "sight words") so students can practice independently. So the first 100 Fry words are the 100 most frequently occurring words in the English language. The Fry words are listed by the frequency with which they occur and are often broken down into groups of 100. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. The Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words than the Dolch list, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Click on the underlined links below to print lists of these words.Ī, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, youĪll, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yesĪfter, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, whenĪlways, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, yourĪbout, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warmĪpple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, goodbye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, woodĪll Dolch Sight Words in alphabetical order There are a total of 315 Dolch Sight Words. The Dolch words are commonly divided into groups by grade level, ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade, with a separate list of nouns. Once a child knows this list of words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words. These words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. ![]() The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. ![]() For a link to a web site all about sight words, including various printable flash cards, click here. ![]() The most common sight words are the Dolch and the Fry lists. ![]() Using sight word s is an effective way of teaching a child to recognize commonly used words. ![]()
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