This year we will focus on 65 High Frequency Words for the children to recognize quickly. Since these words are read, written, and spoke so often in English, knowing them will make learning to read so much easier because the student will only have to focus and concentrate on decoding the less common words. These words are
Our district expectation is that in Trimester 1 they will know at least 10 words, 25 by the 2nd trimester, and 36 by the end of the year.
Memorizing can be very easy for some children and very difficult for others, so I have created a "club" system so that every child can work at their own pace for learning their High Frequency Words.
This resource is in every student's binder, and writing folder and we use it for both reading and writing practice, while also learning how grid coordinates work. *click here to get your own copy
Each word can be found by saying it's animal club and the color that appears behind it. For example: "frog, yellow" means, find the frog picture, and slid your finder along that line on the chart until you see the work printed on the yellow space. "was"
For reading, you can call out the animal and color. "what is koala, green?"
Or, when writing, someone might ask, "how do we spell 'go'?" and the quick answer is "dolphin, blue"
Click here for a printable set of practice grids for each club.
Click here to get a printable set of High Frequency Words. Print double sided, or just the odd number pages if you cannot do double-sided prints.
Links to my YouTube playlists for each set of club words:
The words are grouped into set of 5 words, named after an animal on the chart. Your child will have practice charts, flashcards, and other activities, to use to help them learn each "club" of words. Our goal is to test each child, each week, to see if they know all of their current club's words, quickly and easily in order they are given. and If they do, they are earn their way into that animal's "club" of experts, they are given a special badge to add to their collection and are celebrated.