C. Develop automaticity with high frequency vocabulary in oral and written language. Use high frequency words.

High Frequency Words: Classroom Activities
Dr. Jean Feldman offers suggestions for incorporating practice with sight words into daily classroom activities.

Mind Reader
Students will play a game that will help them recognize the word wall words. Students will be given clues to follow. Use this activity when you have about a month’s worth of words on your word wall.

Reading Bookmarks:  Create and decorate these bookmarks and use them to write unfamiliar words.

Dolch Word Cards:  Dolch Word cards with Jan Brett illustrations

High Frequency Words and Vocabulary:  Tips for teaching high frequency words

Missing Letters Game:  This site offers a spelling game. Requires Shockwave from Macromedia, Inc.

Dolch Words:  Dolch words are everywhere! Many of the Dolch words will be in anything that we read. If students know these words, they will know many of the words in whatever they are trying to read.

Find A Word Game:  This site offers a find-a-word printable worksheet.

High Frequency Word Worksheets:  This site offers several find-a-word printable worksheets.

Flash Hangman for high frequency words:  This game works with 292 high frequency words. However, there are no clues as to what the word might be and the player gets only 8 guesses.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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