First 300 High Frequency Words
the / other / only / another / food / feetof / about / little / well / between / car
and / out / work / large / own / mile
a / many / know / must / below / night
to / then / place / big / country / walk
in / them / year / even / plant / white
is / these / live / such / last / sea
you / so / me / because / school / began
that / some / back / turn / father / grow
it / her / give / here / keep / took
he / would / most / why / tree / river
was / make / very / ask / never / four
for / like / after / went / start / carry
on / into / thing / men / city / state
are / time / our / read / earth / once
with / has / just / need / eye / book
his / look / name / land / light / hear
they / two / good / different / thought / stop
I / more / sentence / home / head / without
at / write / man / us / under / second
be / go / think / move / story / later
this / see / say / try / saw / miss
have / number / great / kind / left / idea
from / no / where / hand / don’t / enough
or / way / help / picture / few / eat
one / could / through / again / while / facet
had / people / much / change / along / watch
by / my / before / off / might / far
word / than / line / play / close / Indian
but / first / right / spell / something / really
not / water / too / air / seem / almost
what / been / mean / away / next / let
all / call / old / animal / hard / above
were / who / any / house / open / girl
we / oil / same / point / example / sometimes
when / its / tell / page / begin / mountain
your / now / boy / letter / life / cut
can / long / follow / mother / always / young
said / down / came / answer / those / talk
use / day / want / found / both / soon
an / did / show / study / paper / list
each / get / also / still / together / song
which / come / around / learn / got / being
she / made / form / should / group / leave
do / may / three / America / often / family
how / part / small / world / run / it’s
their / over / set / high / important / body
if / new / put / every / until / music
will / sound / end / near / children / color
up / take / does / add / side / stand
These are the most common words in English, ranked in order offrequency. The first 25 make up about a third of all printed material. The first 100 make up about half of all written material, and the first 300 make up about 65 percent of all written material.
Activities to do at Home: (You can pick 5-10 words weekly and highlight them as you go along to work at your own pace.)
Say the words.
Discuss what the words mean.
Use them in a sentence.
Spell the words.
Highlight as many high frequency words as you can on a newspaper or magazine page or look for them elsewhere: in stores, on signs, etc.
Play a spelling or vocabulary game (synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, etc.) with the words.
Have a spelling challenge/quiz.