Key points:
- Immersive opportunities make high frequency words stick and keep students engaged
- Mastering high frequency words helps students grow into proficient readers
- See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction
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If you were to poll an audience of educators--classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors--about whether high frequency words should be taught in early elementary, the resounding answer would be YES. These words, after all, are important to students’ ultimate reading success.
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