Handy Sight Word / High Frequency Word Lists
Our kids are at that age where learning to read involves learning common words. These common words are often called sight words or high frequency words. You can readily buy flash cards but I decided to make my own. Below are links to 8 different documents with common words increasing in difficulty. The documents are formatted to print labels on Avery 8066 labels. Just stick them to blank index cards and you are done. You might want to write the number of the list in the corner of the cards to keep the flash cards separate.
PDF Files
high-1, high-2, high-3, high-4, high-5, high-6, high-7, high-8
Word Files
high-1, high-2, high-3, high-4, high-5, high-6, high-7, high-8
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| a | eat | this | has | than | think | turn | try |
| I | an | that | two | put | great | away | kind |
| the | look | when | more | their | these | begin | hand |
| is | come | there | way | where | help | every | book |
| it | here | get | first | would | much | don’t | never |
| in | of | got | who | time | before | run | animal |
| to | was | why | call | many | line | car | house |
| go | are | what | lkittle | only | right | let | letter |
| can | for | as | give | long | old | girl | tree |
| at | his | did | take | use | any | were | found |
| see | be | so | down | know | same | stop | still |
| like | have | some | day | may | tell | again | people |
| and | or | out | find | part | boy | took | should |
| my | had | now | came | set | ask | until | point |
| up | but | play | could | live | show | end | oil |
| me | not | how | make | back | also | does | talk |
| she | all | if | other | most | around | another | write |
| no | will | big | about | after | three | well | along |
| we | do | off | good | thing | mother | must | always |
| on | your | then | too | out | made | even | soon |
| he | one | them | each | just | because | such | almost |
| am | went | saw | over | name | us | men | above |
| by | with | her | new | many | small | read | began |
| you | they | him | very | under | father | need | those |
| said | from | into | want | say | keep | home | walk |
Most Dr. Seuss books contain high frequency words. Probably thinking Dick and Jane were a little boring, he decided to create more interesting ways for children to learn those crazy sight words that don’t follow most of the normal rules of phonics. Oh, the places flash cards go…
Now, we would be all set, if teachers tested on Dr. Suess books instead of stupid lists. : ) Learning words by straight memorization out of the context of a sentence, I have to admit is hard.