High Frequency Words

The 100 most frequently occurring words in written English are introduced as shown below.

(These words are published in Letters and Sounds (2007), P193-194, and they have been collated from the Children's Printed Word Database (Masterson, Stuart, Dixon, Lovejoy; 2003) 

Starter Book A, Starter Book B, Tom and Bella Pink Stories

a  on  in  big  and  the

Series A Set 1 

I  can  go  to  is  see  with

Series B Set 1

not  back  very  his  off  put  will

Tom and Bella Red Stories 1

get  up  but

Series A Set 2

of  oh  no  got  are  at  my  this

Tom and Bella Red Stories 2

from  little  them

Vowel Sounds Set 1

into  too

Vowel Sounds Set 2

he  him  look  for  it

Vowel Sounds Set 3

an  down  her  then  out  she  have  they

Vowel Sounds Set 4

that  you  all  day  as

Series B Set 2

had  by  we

Rhyming CVC Stories

come  so

Tom and Bella Yellow Series 

me  mum

Consolidation Stories 1

do  one  help  when

Consolidation Stories 2

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Alfie and Harpo Stories 1

if

Alfie and Harpo Stories 2

old  some

Consolidation Stories 3

house  there

Tom and Bella Blue Stories

called  here

Follifoot Farm Stories 1

what

Follifoot Farm Stories 2

their  now  about

The Cats Who Fell Out of the Car

like  Mrs

Alfie's Big Adventure

came  said  saw  was  were  asked  went  looked

English Vowels Stories Set 1

be  could  made  time

English Vowels Stories Set 2

just

English Vowels Stories Set 3

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English Vowels Stories Set 4

children

not used: dad  don't  I'm  make  Mr  people  your

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Of the 100 most frequently occuring words, 88 are function words and 12 are content words, i.e. nouns or adjectives.

These are:- mum, dad, people, house, children, day, time, back*, big, old, Mr, Mrs.

The function words are grouped grammatically as:-

definite article:  the

indefinite article:   a,  an

conjunctions: and, but, so, as, if

determiners:  that,  all,  what,  no,  this,  one,  some

prepositions:  to,  in,  of,  on,  for,  with,  at,  up,  out,  down,  into,  from,  about,  by,  off

pronouns:  he,  I,  it,  you,  they,  she,  his,  we,  my,  her,  me,  him,  them,  your,  their

adverbs:  not,  there,  then,  here,  when,  back,  very,  now,  too,  just

verbs: was,  is,  can,  had,  went,  have,  are,  to,  be,  were,  will,  do,  go,  come,  look,  see,  got,  like,  looked,  came,  got,  put,  saw,  said,  help,  could,  called,  asked,  made,  make

contractions: it's,  don't,  I'm

interjections: oh

* 'back' may be a noun, adjective or adverb.

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The 200 next most regularly occuring words in children's books collated from the same database and shown in Letters and Sounds (2007) ( p195) are introduced as shown below:

Starter Book A

cat  hat  hot  box  dog  bad  bed

Starter Book B

bad  hot  man

Tom and Bella Pink Stories

rabbit 

Series A Set 1

fell  sat  duck  sleep  run  am

Series B set 1

red  has  

Tom and Bella Red Stories 1

fast  sun  tells  top  

Series A Set 2

next  stop  fun

Tom and Bella Red Series 2

lots 

Vowel Sounds Set 1

feet  its  tree  

Vowel Sounds Set 2

river  park  dark  door  horse  fox  good 

Vowel Sounds Set 3

fish  eat

Vowel Sounds Set 4

away  night  long  along  sea  way  play  going  three

Series B Set 2

under  think  been  us  egg

Rhyming CVC Stories

Tom and Bella Yellow Stories

last  green  says  water  plant  miss

Consolidation Stories 1

coming  again  looking  over

Consolidation Stories 2

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..... to be continued

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