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I teach English as a foreign language for prek-12 kids in South America.

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High frequency words: Dolch words: Fry words

or Popping words?

What are Sight Words?

These are words that good readers should instantly recognize without
having to "figure them out." From 50-75% of all words used in school books, library books, newspapers, and magazines are in the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary of 220 words The Dolch word list is made up of "service words" (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs) which cannot be learned through the use of pictures.

Dolch words

They are also called Dolch words.The famous Dolch Sight Word lists are named after E.W. Dolch, who surveyed a great quantity of children's books to compile a list of the most commonly occuring words in young children's readers. He came up with a list of 220 "service words" (primarily pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and verbs) and 95 common nouns. It is estimated that the combined listings account for common words that occur in 50-75% of children's books.

What are Fry Words?

Dr. Edward B. Fry's Instant Word List (which is often referred to as the Fry Words) are the most common words in English ranked in order of frequency.

In 1996, Dr. Fry expanded on Dolch's sight word lists and research and published a book titled "Fry 1000 Instant Words." His research found that a mere 25 words make up approximately 1/3 of all items published. He discovered that 100 words comprise approximately 1/2 of all the publications written, and 300 words make up 65% of all written material.

Here you have a list:

http://www.uen.org/k-2educator/word_lists.shtml

I decided to call them Popping words because they "pop up" all the time in reading and writing. And everybody likes popcorn. What can be better than eating popcorn while learning the high frequency words.

How to teach the words

Select 10 new words each week to teach.

write the words or print them onto hard cardboard

Show the word to the child.

Say: This is the word /XXXX/

Ask: What letter is at the beginning of this word?

Point out something characteristic about the word for example

This word begins with the same letter as your name; or This word only has 3 letters, spell the word aloud

Ask your children to spell it aloud.

Have the child practice the 10 sight words with a hands-on activity like bingo, concentration, Go Fish, etc. The game should be played with a partner, a friend, you it is important that the words be seen in context
or print like they will be seen when reading.

Activities

Concentration game

Play concentration game using the words

New sentences

Provide the child with all or part of the pile of flashcards allow them to create their own sentences using the cards

Tic tac toe

Allow them to play tic tac toe, either with colored chalk on the board or with colored pencils on paper. you can also make tic tac toe games with manipulative pieces. Before a children can place an "x" or an "o" on the grid, he or she must spell a sight word correctly.

Pick up a card

Put all of the word cards face down on the table and then just kind of shove them around on the table top with my hands as I say "Pick a card, pick a card, pick a card_________." and name a child. They have to reach in a grab one of the rotating cards. If they can say the word they keep the card if they can't we all read it and it goes back into the pot.

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Tracing cards

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Pre-primer (40 words)
a, 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, you

Primer (52 words)
all, 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, yes

1st Grade (41 words)
after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, giving, 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, when

2nd Grade (46 words)
always, 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, your

3rd Grade (41 words)
about, 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, warm

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