English Language Arts

High-Frequency Words and Fluency

High-frequency words are the short words a first grader meets in almost every sentence. Fluency is reading them accurately enough that meaning can catch up. Keep a small card set; the pocket folder on the SCPS Grade 1 list holds it.

Open Study4 cards in this set.

Print Sight Word Practice Print Reading Fluency Practice

How this lesson runs

Read the word on the card. Say it, then spell it out loud.
Find it in a decodable sentence.
Write three of today’s words in the composition book.

Source: CPALMS ELA.1.F.1.4 · 4 cards below.

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What is a high-frequency word?

Grade 1 study cards. Ages 6 to 8. Not a test. Not a grade.

Teaching tip

Open a book. You will see the, and, is again and again.

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