High-Frequency Words

Rethinking How We Teach Sight and High-Frequency Words

This podcast episode of Literacy Talks tackles the need to rethink and redesign the way we approach high-frequency words in literacy instruction. Advice centers around using phonics-based strategies to help learners connect the sounds and meanings of high-frequency words so they become part of students’ working memory.

Teaching High Frequency Words: The Science of Reading’s Breakthrough Instructional Practice

This blog gives step-by-step instructions to teach high-frequency words and the why behind it.

How to Teach Most Common Words

This three-minute video explains why facilitating orthographic mapping is essential to learning high-frequency words and models how to align your instruction to the SoR.

Bookmark: How to Teach High-Frequency Words

This downloadable bookmark gives step-by-step instructions aligned with the science of reading on teaching any high-frequency word.