![]() The arrow also helps students orient the flash card and helps them remember to read from left to right.Ī: Hold the flash card so that it is directly in front of your child at your child’s eye level. When you move your finger across the arrow, make sure that it does not obstruct your child’s view of the word as this distracts attention from the words. Q: The flash cards don’t print correctly - why do they go over the edge of the paper?Ī: The one-to-a-page and four-to-a-page flash cards need to be printed in landscape. To do this, go to your printer settings and select “landscape” (not portrait). These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, or for any other purpose. ![]() You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. You’ll also see these instructions on the page: “Instructions You should be able to type your selected words into the blank boxes here. The Flash Card Creator creates a custom set of sight words flash cards. You can use one (or more) of the existing lists of sight words and/or use your own custom word list. To create your Flash Cards:įirst, select the sight word list(s) you wish to use. Under Dolch Sight Words or Fry Sight Words or Top 150 Written Words, check the boxes corresponding to any sight words lists you want included in your Flash Cards. For example, selecting the Dolch Sight Words Kindergarten and 1st Grade lists uses those 93 words for your Flash Cards. Under Custom Sight Words, enter in any custom words you want included in your set of Flash Cards. ![]() For example, if you are doing a unit on farm animals, you might want to add cow and pig.Ĭlick Create Flash Cards, and your cards will be created and displayed onscreen in PDF format. You can print the cards by selecting print from your browser window.Learning high-frequency words by sight is a critical part in learning to read. What are these lists? How do they differ? Do you choose one list or do your kids need to study both lists? As you search for sight word lists for your child to study, two different lists come up: Dolch Sight Words and Fry Sight Words. Sight words are the most common words we teach young kids to learn by heart. Think of the most common English prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and articles and you’ll know the words that are on the list. They are words such as “an’, ‘blue’, ‘and’, ‘come’, ‘who’ and ‘does’.ĭr. Seuss is a good reference point for sight words. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat is a Dolch sight word. Parents have some choices when it comes to choosing lists of sight words. Common Core sight words, a new variation that combines Dolch and Fry sight words into new combinations of lists.Top 150 written words, a list of the 150 words that occur most frequently in printed English, according to the Word Frequency Book.Edward William Dolch in the 1930s and 40s. The list of Dolch sight words is the most commonly used list. It contains 220 ‘service words’ and 95 high-frequency words. He based the list of the most common words in children’s books during the 1930s and 40s. He left out commonly occurring nouns and narrowed his list to 220 words that are found in different kinds of written pieces – not just stories. Later he added a list of 95 nouns that occur most frequently. ![]() In addition, to memorize these words, we also recommend the 3rd-grade students learn how to run the online features of the website, which will improve the efficiency of studying the Fry words list.Fry developed an expanded sight words list for grades 1 – 10. Fry 300 is a prerequisite to learning other Fry words in higher grades. ![]() No matter what they studied before, grade 3 students should master all of them. The third 100 Fry words plus the first 100 and second 100 words are called Fry 300, which are the essential words of the Fry sight list. The third 100 Fry words are the right content for children who finish Dolch words and turn to more extensive sight vocabulary. In this year, the original Dolch students have to switch to Fry words sooner or later. In grade 1 and grade 2, some students stick to Dolch words. Comparing the first 300 Fry words (also called Fry 300) with Dolch words will get a high ratio overlapping. So, the 3rd grade is the particular year to study Fry words. The Dolch sight words list focuses on reading from kindergarten to 2nd grade, and the Fry sight words list focuses on reading from 3rd to 9th grade. ![]()
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