First 100 Words: A Padded Board Book

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The Dolch sight word list, on the other hand, focuses on commonly used words that are not immediately decodable by phonics.

While both sets serve the same objective of teaching children common words, they differ in their origins, word selection, and usage.While both collections concentrate on high-frequency terms, there are substantial differences in their selection processes and priorities. You might want to use it for an upcoming spelling test or generally practising High Frequency Words. Our lovely resource creation team are not currently able to adapt this full pack into an editable MS Word document, but if there is a specific activity or change that you were hoping to see please do let me know. For a child, learning their first words… is like putting up the scaffolding of a house… something that holds the house up whilst the rest is being built upon over time. High-frequency words are words that are used most commonly and frequently used in the English language, for example, 'and', 'the', 'as', and 'it'.

This page is the first level of the Fry words, covering the first 100 words, divided into four groups.

Another fun way to help your child to learn these high frequency words is to choose a handful of the words and encourage them to make a silly sentence which contains as many of them as possible!