Helping Children to Learn High Frequency Words - Information for Parents

About this teaching resource

One very important part of helping children’s spelling is to help them learn the correct spelling of the words used most often in all writing – the high frequency words.

Children are often given the task of learning a certain group of words each week as homework. Parents are usually involved in this work, but they need to know the best way to do this task.

The main purpose for this document, Helping Children to Learn High Frequency Words, is to help parents and others to know more about the best ways to teach children how to spell the words all writers use the most. This will also help children to read the words.

Also hear the podcast, The Importance of Teaching High Frequency Words with Diane Snowball here.