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Easy-to-learn study words for beginning readers
The 100 most common words printed in the English Language, and 41 sentences using them.
Note that only 12 words contain more than 4-letters.
The words were taken from: "The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition": by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D, Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed.D & Dona Lee Fountoukidis, Ed.D. <<http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html>> (the link leads to a page that links, in turn, to the first 1,000 most common words)

The sentences are original on this site. Please send in corrections to the punctuation.

The words
The words with an asterisk are not on our list of phonetic words
a, about*, all, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, call, can, come, could*, day, did, do, down, each, find*, first, for, from*, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into*, is, it, its, like*, long, look*, made*, make*, many*, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, oil, on, one, or, other*, out, part, people*, said, see, she, so, some, than, that, the, their, then, them, there, these*, they, this, time, to, two, up, use*, was, water*, way, we, were, what*, when, which, who, will, with, word*, would*, write*, you, your

Challenge your students to create sentences of their own, using ONLY the words at the left -- it is not easy.
The sentences: these should be good for one-minute timed testing. Almost all of these words are on our list of more than 9,000 phonetic words. Click for a PDF of the book containing these words.
  1. You can not have it your way all the time.
  2. I have not said a word to them in a long time. I did not see him or her when they were here.
  3. What is this all about, can you tell me?
  4. He made a number of them and he may make more if he has the time.
  5. Was he the one who said their time was up?
  6. Do I have to do it now?
  7. Can you come down in a day or two? If not, call.
  8. Get out of there now.
  9. Did you see him do that; were you there at the time?
  10. It will be done in a day or two, but now is not the time to do it.
  11. Use it up and then you can have more.
  12. Is it up to him to do it?
  13. Will you do it now?
  14. We can do more than you or I.
  15. There has to be a first of many.
  16. It has been a long time from then to now.
  17. They can not have it their way.
  18. They are the first to go.
  19. By then, there was no more.
  20. He had his and that was all.
  21. But I do not see how he did it.
  22. Do it my way or do not do it at all
  23. Did you get its number?
  24. He said he is on his way.

 

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