Flash Cards: COMBINED Sight Words

This resource is a BUNDLE of the Dolch Sight Words Flash Cards and the Fry Sight Words Flash Cards. Learn the 220 common sight words and 95 nouns from the Dolch Sight Words list, and 1000 modern common sight words from the Fry Sight Words list with this resource. Flash Cards introduce words and promote comprehension through memorization and repetition. They can be used in a group setting or individually for practice.

This set includes a teacher guide, the Dolch sight words flash cards, the Fry sight words flash cards, and blank flash cards.

These Flash Cards can be used to help students begin their literacy journey. The individual titles included in this BUNDLE are: DOLCH SIGHT WORDS Flash Cards and FRY SIGHT WORDS Flash Cards.

About this Combined Resource:

This resource includes all 315 Dolch Sight Words and 1000 Fry Sight Words in a Flash Cards format. Organized in groups of 10, teachers can cut out each flash card for easy use with their students. The Flash Cards are separated by grades and nouns. Teachers can choose to focus on cards by grade, or mix them up for an overall activity. Included in this resource are customized origami-styled envelopes that can be used to keep each set of Flash Cards organized. Instructions on how to fold the envelopes can be found on page 4.

About Flash Cards:

Flash Cards are small cards that have a little amount of information on them. These cards are held up for students to see to help with learning. Flash Cards can be used in groups as drill activities, or alone for private study. Although Flash Cards can contain any form of information, for the purposes of this resource, each Flash Card contains a vocabulary word. Overall, Flash Cards are used as a learning drill to help with memorization through repetition. Students can quickly and easily learn vocabulary words by using Flash Cards in their everyday study.

Flash Cards exercise the mental processes of students’ brains. With repeated practice, students will learn to associate words with their spelling.

About Dolch Sight Words:

In 1948, Edward William Dolch, PhD created his list of the most common 220 words and 95 nouns in children’s books. These words were then divided into grade levels, including pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs. Nouns made up a separate list of 95 words. The list used 220 “service words” that should be easily recognized in order for students to become fluent in reading.

The Dolch words are “Sight Words” because many of them cannot be sounded out. Instead, they must be learned by sight. In other words, memorization. These sight words provide a basis for reading at a young age. Students must become familiar with these words as they begin to read in order to become successful readers as they progress through their academic career.

About Fry Sight Words:

In 1996, Dr. Edward B. Fry expanded on Dolch’s list of 220 Sight Words and 95 common nouns. This list included 1000 of the most common words used in the English language ranked by frequency. Labeled as “Instant Words”, Fry’s list came to be known as “Fry Words”.

These words are typically broken down into groups of 100, and separated by grades kindergarten to first grade, second to third grade, and fourth to fifth grade. Learning all 1000 words in this modern list of Sight Words will allow students to be able to read about 90% of the words used in a typical book.