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Teaching High Frequency Words.

Introduction

Although there are more than 600,000 words in the English language, only a small number of these appear frequently in the materials we read. In fact, studies have shown that there are only 13 different words that make up 25 percent of the words we read, and there are 100 words that make up 50 percent of the words we read. These words are calledhigh-frequency words.

There are several reasons why students should be explicitly taught high-frequency words. One is that many of these words, such as the, is, to and are, do not follow commonly taught phonics rules and cannot be sounded out. The only way a child can read these words is to recognize them by sight. A second reason is that knowing the most commonly used words by sight will make astudent a faster and fluent reader. Students who need to pause and attempt to figure out most of the words they read tend to overload their memory. As a result, their understanding of what read suffers. A third reason for teaching high-frequency words is that while many of these words alone don’t carry much meaning, they do affect the meaning of a sentence and help make it understandable.

Thehigh-frequency lesson plans are designed to introduce 1-4 high frequency words per lesson. In addition to practicing the words in isolation, students also practice reading the words, in the context of an accompanying book. Each book contains high-frequency words focused on in the lesson, as well as high-frequency words learned in previous lessons.

One of the most important things when childrenare learning a new language is by using as many words as they can in their lives, here we show to you different methods and techniques that can help you to develop and teach high-frequency words to your children in the classroom.



Topic 1: What Are High Frequency Words?




High-frequency words come to English class and are used to help teach children how to read. In the world we live intoday, you cannot get very far in life if you do not know how to read.

High frequency words, also known as sight words consist of about 200 essential words. More than 50 percent of all written material is made of up of 100 of the most frequently used words in the English vocabulary and many of these words are sight words.



These words play an important part in holding together thegeneral coherence of texts and teachers are encouraged to get their pupils to recognise them as soon as possible so they can get pace and accuracy into their reading at an early stage. Some of these words have irregular or difficult spellings and, because they often play an important grammatical part, they are hard to predict from the surrounding text.”

| I |Go |Come|went |Up |You |Day |Was |
|Look |Are |The |Of |We |This |dog |Me |
|Like |Going |Big |she |And |They |my |See |
|On |Away |Mom|It |At |Play |no |Yes |
|For |A |Dad |can |He |Am |all |  |
|Is |Cat |Get |said |To |In |  | |

They're an excellent reminder of the crucial first key words andcan also be used to play games. You can pick one or two words, for example; 'I' and 'see', then hide copies of them around the house or garden and see if they can find them!
Between ages 4 and 7, children are also expected to learn the following (“Key Stage One”) words:
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Numbers to twenty
• Common colour words
• Pupil’s name and...