High Frequency Words

Here are some extra, fun activities you can complete with your child at home to help him/her learn and practice High Frequency Words (AKA Heart Words):

• Play “Go Fish” with the High Frequency Words on index cards (write each word on two cards).

• Word Searches/Sight Word Scavenger Hunt: Find High Frequency Words on food boxes or other available print material (magazines, grocery shopping, street signs, etc.)

• Letter Magnets: Have your child use letter magnets to spell the word.

• Memory game: Make duplicates of the High Frequency Word cards and play the memory game.

• Bingo: Make 5 x 5 grids and put High Frequency Words in the squares. Call out a High Frequency Word and have your child find the word on his/her Bingo board; play the same rules as Bingo.

• Write High Frequency Words with glitter glue

• Write High Frequency Words with “Playdoh”

• Write with shaving cream

• Put craft sand on a paper plate. Have your child practice tracing High Frequency Words in the sand.

• Put hair gel in a zip lock baggie, seal the baggie, and have your child write the letters of the High Frequency Words in the gel.

• Jump, hop, clap, or tap out the letters of the High Frequency Words (t-h-e “the”).