First Grade 100 High Frequency Words (FCPS 1st grade list)

Click below to practice FCPS sight words.  These are words that students should master prior to the middle of the school year.  Reading Street sight words are more difficult than this list below, but students will have plenty of practice within school to master reading and spelling of these other sight words.  If your child can fluently read the words below, have them practice spelling them.

High Frequency 100 words link for online flashcards

Dibels Testing

Big Ideas in Reading and Dibels testing

Fluency

Fluency (automaticity) is reading words with no noticeable cognitive or mental effort. It is having mastered word recognition skills to the point of overlearning. Fundamental skills are so "automatic" that they do not require conscious attention.
Examples of automaticity:

• shifting gears on a car
• playing a musical instrument
• playing a sport (serving a tennis ball)

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Point to Remember:

Fluency is not an end in itself but a critical gateway to comprehension. Fluent reading frees resources to process meaning.

For students to develop fluency, they must:

• perform the task or demonstrate the skill accurately, and
• perform the preskills of the task quickly and effortlessly.

Once accurate, fluency develops through plentiful opportunities for practice in which the task can be performed with a high rate of success.