Reading Sight Words:
Free Flash Cards and Word Lists

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Library Elementary Girl Students Reading

Reading is the most important skill
that a child will learn in school.

blue bullet point Reading sight words is one of the basic building blocks of learning how to read. A sight word is a word that children can read readily without having to sound it out. To lay a foundation for learning how to read, it is imperative to introduce sight words to children.

blue bullet point Above, you will find a free five page Word Wall Bulletin Board Display Banner for you to download and use for your classroom word wall. I have also included cards for the letters of the alphabet to use along with the banner.

blue bullet point Displaying a word wall in your classroom will be a useful visual aid to your students as they are reading sight words, practicing them, and committing them to memory.


blue bullet point Library Boy Student Reading Picture Book Many sight words are difficult to portray with pictures or hard to sound out through phonics methods. Therefore, these words must be learned as sight words and they must be quickly recognized in order to achieve reading fluency.

blue bullet point Once children have learned and memorized these basic sight words, they are able to read more fluently and with greater comprehension. There are two lists of reading sight words that are used the most frequently by teachers:

Fry 1000 Instant Words
and
Dolch Sight Words

By clicking on the underlined links on this page, you will be taken to
two different web pages where you will find free sight word flashcards and word lists.





blue bullet point Reading in Library Elementary School Students Many different lists of high frequency sight words that have been compiled over the years. The Dolch Sight Word Lists and the list of Fry 1000 Instant Words are two of the most widely used and highly respected by both teachers and parents today.

blue bullet point The Dolch Sight Words are a list of the 220 most frequently used words in the English language. These sight words make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text.

blue bullet point Edward B. Fry, Ph.D. is well-know for his book published in 1996 titled 1,000 Instant Words: The Most Common Words for Teaching Reading, Writing and Spelling. Dr. Edward B. Fry's Instant Word Lists are the most common words in English ranked in order of frequency. The first 25 Fry Words make up about a third of all printed material. The first 100 Fry Words make up about half of all written material.


Flashcards Elementary School Teacher and Students Reading


Free Sight Word Resources:
Flashcards, Lists, and Teaching Resources

Learning Fry's Sight Word Lists

Click on the link below to go to:

Free Fry 1000 Instant Words
Teaching Resources Web Page


Fry Instant Words and Sight Words Free Flashcards


Fry 1000 Instant Words Free Flashcards Set 1



Click on the link below to go to:

Free Dolch Sight Words
Teaching Resources Web Page


Dolch Picture Nouns Free Flashcards


Dolch Preprimer Free Flashcards










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