Hello, and welcome to Learn to Read High Frequency Words.
In this video, you'll learn some strategies to help you practice reading common sight words.
Did you know that there are more than 600,000 words in the English language?
That's a lot of words to know,
but you don't have to memorize the words to be able to read them.
This is why letter sounds and all those rules
about syllables and consonant-vowel-consonant words are important to learn.
If you haven't watched those videos yet, be sure to go watch them,
and then come back to this one.
There are words in the English language that we use more often than other words.
For example, we use the words, "the," "and," and, "a," very often when we speak write or read.
These words are called sight words, or Dolch words, or sometimes high frequency words
because we use them very frequently, or very often.
You can find high frequency word lists online or ask your parents to print one out.
Today I'm going to show you some ways to practice reading the words on a high frequency word list.
One of the best ways to learn high frequency words is to find patterns among them.
How are the words the same?
Maybe you can place all the "th" words together like this.
These words are all high frequency words, or words we use very often,
and they can be found on a high frequency word list.
I found all the words in the list that begin with, "th," and wrote them down.
I know that,"th," makes two different sounds.
Sometimes it sounds like, /ð/, like in the word, "the."
And sometimes it sounds like, /θ/ like in the word, "think."
So I separate the, "th," words into two columns.
In this column, the words all begin with the, /ð/ sound, like in the word, "the."
And in this column, I listed all the words that sound like, /θ/, like in the word, "think."
Listen to how differently these beginning sounds are.
The
That
They
This
There
Think
Thing
Through
Another way to practice reading high frequency words is to list them
according to how many letters they have in each word.
For example, there are only two one-letter words.
Wow!
And these are words with two letters in them.
These are some words with three letters in them.
Sometimes I list the words according to their vowel sounds, like I did here.
I went through the high frequency word list and I found all the words with long vowel sounds
and those with short vowel sounds, and placed them under the right heading.
I like to notice how differently the words are spelled to make long or short vowel sounds.
Another way to practice reading high frequency words is to play around with suffixes and prefixes.
Another way to practice reading and playing with high frequency words is to
challenge yourself and use as many of the words as you can in a sentence.
Each of these sentences uses only words from the high frequency word list.
Isn't that neat?
You can have fun with the high frequency words
by writing them down on cards and playing a memory game.
You can time yourself to see how fast you can read all of the words without making a mistake.
You will surely get quicker at it each time.
Of course, a super great way to get more reading practice
with high frequency words is with our fun games.
And until next time, always be clever.