Ms. Essex's First Grade Class

Fluency
A student should be able to read a text at fifty words per minute before being assessed for reading comprehension on the material. Therefore, repeated reading of familiar text is important practice.

Vocabulary Building
Factual text is an often overlooked resource for building vocabulary. Most students find animal books very interesting.

Sight Words
Sight words are words that must be memorized because they break phonics rules.

High Frequency Words
These words should be memorized because they occur so frequently.