A big thank you to Hunter's Mom for sending in the supplies for the classroom! Today your child brought their high frequency words home in an index card case. Please have them put all of their word cards in there for safe keeping. Remember, your child should practice reading them nightly!
High-frequency words are the words that appear most often in printed materials. Just three words I, and, the account for ten percent of all words in printed English.
High-frequency words can be hard for students to remember because they tend to be abstract. They can't use a picture clue to figure out the word with. And phonics clues don't always work either.
Learning to recognize high-frequency words by sight is critical to developing fluency in reading. Recognizing these words gives students a basic context for figuring out other words. Once they recognize the, they can predict with amazing accuracy what the next word will be.
Some students have said that their cards got thrown away (accidentally, I am sure!).
Please let me know if you would like a list of all words introduced so far this school year.
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