High Frequency words are words that make up a large portion of the written word and it is important for early readers to memorize them. Knowing frequency words by sight will make your child a more fluent reader. At the same time, many of high frequency words cannot be sounded out phonetically, so learning them by heart makes the most sense.
Here is the list for kindergartners.
| all | am | are | at |
| ate | be | black | brown |
| but | came | did | do |
| eat | four | get | good |
| have | he | into | like |
| must | new | no | now |
| on | our | out | please |
| pretty | ran | ride | saw |
| say | she | so | soon |
| that | there | they | this |
| too | under | want | was |
| well | went | what | white |
| who | will | with | yes |
