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Word Checkers
Young scholars practice reading high-frequency words by playing word checkers. They use the provided checker mat and checkers to read their way to the other side of the mat, making a less stressful way to provide necessary practice.
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Fluency: Words, Word Relay
Peers take turns timing each other for one minute and reading as many high-frequency cards as possible.
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Fluency: Words, Fast Words
Taking turns, pre-readers time each other as they read high-frequency words.
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Bowling
Go bowling for high-frequency words! Partners take turns drawing bowling ball cards and read the word printed on them. If the learner is successful, they record their score on a scorecard.
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Fluency: Words, Word Speed Practice
Taking turns, learners time each other as they read a list of high-frequency words and track progress.
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Memory Word Game
Play this fun adaptation of the game Memory. Young scholars flip over high-frequency word cards, read them aloud, and keep them if they match.
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Fluency: Words, Word Climb
Just like climbing a mountain, little learners read to reach the top. They take turns picking high-frequency word cards, reading them, then matching them to the words on their mountain worksheet. They race to reach the top of the...
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Fluency: Words, Pass the Word
Learners time each other as they read as many high-frequency words as possible in one minute. Peers record progress.
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Phonics: High-Frequency Words, Word Fishing
To practice reading high-frequency words fluently, learners play a fishing game at a learning center. They take turns fishing; each fish contains a single high-frequency word. To keep the fish they caught, they must be able to read the...
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Fluency: Words, I Read, You Point
Learners read as many high-frequency words as possible in a given amount of time. Peer one reads a word from a list, and peer two points to the corresponding word as they are seen on the table. This activity is timed and peer evaluated.
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Fluency: Words, Fast Match
Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in...
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Sand Paper Words
Learners use a stack of words embellished with tactile elements, such as sandpaper, to practice high-frequency words. Pupils trace the tactile surface of each letter in the word, write it on their paper, then find and glue that word from...
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Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
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Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text
Decoding words in connected text can make emergent readers really feel like they are great readers. They work as a class to sound out simple cvc words located in super short sentences. Tip: Extend this activity by having a variety of...
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High Frequency Words: Set 4
Three pages plus twelve words equal a versatile resource ready to use. Here is a set of twelve high frequency words that you can print and cut to reinforce high frequency word recognition. Great for early readers, autistic learners, or a...
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High Frequency Words: Set 3
Here are twelve high frequency words that you can use as a game, flashcards, or to boost word recognition and reading skills. Intended for use with an autistic class but useful for any special needs or early readers. Just print, cut, and...
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High Frequency Words
Phonemic awareness might not be a skill all autistic children will understand, but pattern and sight word recognition may prove to be more effective means of building strong reading skills. Use this set of twelve high frequency word...
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High Frequency Words: Flash Cards
Twenty high frequency words for you to print, cut, and use. These are all very simple words intended for early readers, special needs, or Autistic pupils. Flash cards are a great way to get special needs kids ready to read. Four blank...
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Fluency: High Frequency Words
Boy, this lesson sounds like a high frequency blast. If you think that sounded sarcastic, it was. Learners watch as the teacher reads the high frequency word..... the! They read the word with the instructor over and over until they have...
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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites
Students investigate color words. In this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology instructional activity, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Students listen to Eric Carle books and observe the...
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Awesome A
In this short a worksheet, 1st graders read a story using the high frequency words come, here, is, an, are, and some as well as words with the short a sound. Students create a student made book of the story and the pictures that accompany.
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High Frequency Word Cards- Full Color
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn to recognize 36 high-frequency words by cutting and laminating these cards. There are no directions here about their use.