When learning how to read, we know it's beneficial for students to turn high frequency words into sight words because high frequency words appear most frequently in texts. These are the 109 words found most frequency in text. If struggling readers can turn these 109 high frequency words into sight words, they will be able to read 50% of text!

What are sight words? What are high frequency words? How are they different? This post defines sight words and high frequency words and explains how they work together to help students learn to read.