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[senco-forum] High Frequency Words Reading Schemes

Maggie Downie maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jan 19 23:03:23 GMT 2008

Article: [senco-forum] High Frequency Words Reading Schemes

You'll find them listed in Appendix 1 of Letters & Sounds  P193.  P194 lists them in the order in which they are introduced in the programme, divided into 'decodable' words and 'tricky' words.  Guidance on teaching them is in each of the appropriate phases.

It is a confusing document to find things in!

Maggie 

Kate Barnes <kate.senrab at btinternet.com> wrote: Are these HFW listed anywhere? I couldnt find them...
  Kate

Maggie Downie <maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  The NLS no longer exists, there is no longer a requirement to teach a list of HFWs as per the old NLS. 

If you look in the new government guidance, Letters & Sounds, you will find that they advocate the teaching of a number of 'tricky' words during each phase, always through the decoding and blending route. Many of the 'old NLS' HFWs were completely decodable and are covered at the appropriate stage of the phonics teaching.

Most of the decodeable book schemes which can run alongside Letters & Sounds (or whatever phonics programme the school is using) introduce the 'tricky' words.

Maggie 

jenni bailey wrote: I am looking to find a good reading scheme which uses the  NLS High Frequency
Words list and which progresses from the first 45 to the next 200 gradually.

I found a scheme which I thought was called "Words First" but have misplaced
the promo pamphlet and cannot find them on the internet.

If anyone has details of this - or any other good quality - scheme (which is
cheap!) I'd love to have the information.

Thanks,
Jenni Bailey
SENCo
The Royal School Hampstead



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