![]() ![]() All words on the Dolch 100 list appear on the full Fry list of 1,000 words.Only 9 words on the Fry 100 list are not on the Dolch 220 service words and 95 noun words list.70 of those words are both on the Dolch 100 list and the Fry 100 list.The first 100 words on the Dolch list and the Fry 100 list have a combined 130 words, so we can tell there’s a lot of overlap.That should help you decide which list is right for your children. Rather than give you a straight answer, let us give you a breakdown of where the lists are similar and where they differ. In learning all 1,000 Fry sight words kids can read about 90 percent of the words in a typical book, be it fiction or non-fiction. The Fry sight words list is larger in size with 1,000 most commonly used words. He later updated that list in 1980 from the most common words that appear in reading materials used for grade 3 – 9. Fry developed an expanded sight words list for grades 1 – 10. Later he added a list of 95 nouns that occur most frequently. 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. He based the list of the most common words in children’s books during the 1930s and 40s. It contains 220 ‘service words’ and 95 high-frequency words. The list of Dolch sight words is the most commonly used list. 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. ![]() Parents have some choices when it comes to choosing lists of sight words. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat is a Dolch sight word. Seuss is a good reference point for sight words. They are words such as “an’, ‘blue’, ‘and’, ‘come’, ‘who’ and ‘does’.ĭr. Think of the most common English prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and articles and you’ll know the words that are on the list. Sight words are the most common words we teach young kids to learn by heart. 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. Each child will learn at their own pace and establishing a solid foundation in sight words will set them up for success as they progress in learning to read.Learning high-frequency words by sight is a critical part in learning to read. The Dolch word list does, however, include 220 words, sometimes known as high frequency words sight words, that are broken up into five different lists:Įach Dolch sight word list corresponds to a particular grade level, but by no means should a child be rushed through the lists to make sure they match up. ![]() In my opinion, the Fry words are much more comprehensive as they cover a larger number of high-frequency words and common words and they are more up-to-date than the Dolch sight words. The Fry lists are also fairly common and my own personal preference when it comes to teaching sight words. Teaching sight words like those in the Dolch word lists ensures that your students will not only read more fluently but that they’ll retain and comprehend more of what they read as well.ĭolch words are basic sight words typically the ones that most people know of, although there are other lists out there. Well, if a student has to stop reading every time they come across the words it or is because they need to sound them out, their fluency and comprehension would suffer greatly. On the path of learning to read, words like these act like big stop signs since they can’t be decoded, meaning kids can’t sound them out. They’ll learn the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that those letters make and as they progress, they’ll learn to sound out vowel teams and consonant blends.īut, what happens when they come across a word that doesn’t follow the typical phonetic rules like the, was, or of? ![]() When we’re teaching students to read, we’re working on a number of different concepts that will help them sound out the words that are in front of them. Before we get to the lists themselves, it may help to understand why sight words are so important. ![]()
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