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Frequency word lists, lists of most frequent nouns, lists of most frequent adjectives, most frequent verbs and some additional word lists sorted according to word frequency in several languages can be downloaded free of charge from this page.
The length of each word list is limited to between 200 and 500 most common words. Longer word lists can be generated using Sketch Engine, register for a trial account and generate the word list you need.
The size of data in Sketch Engine is sufficient to even generate a list of all words in many languages.
About our word lists
The word lists are based on an enormous multi-billion word collection of texts called a corpus. The texts include a large variety of topics and text types. The word lists were generated using Sketch Engine, a tool designed to process a large amount of text from the linguistic point of view. Sketch Engine includes a tool which can recognize parts of speech (noun, verb etc.) and also grammatical categories (singular/plural, past/present etc.). Sketch Engine is also able to identify which words are forms of the same word (lemmatization). For example, Sketch Engine knows that knives is the plural of knife. These sophisticated algorithms guarantee the highest possible quality of the word lists.
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Welcome to the printables page! Here you’ll find various printouts that I’ve made for different games. For the non-word-list printables down below, if you click the image, it will take you to the printable. If you click the words under the image, it will take you to the post with instructions on how to use the printable. Hopefully this page can help you find the game you’re looking for. Happy playing!
Word lists
Here’s some various word lists I’ve made that you can print out and cut up. They’re organized by game, though you could easily use printouts from one game for a different game. There’s also a Holidays category with word lists that can be used for any game. For even bigger lists of words in these categories, check out my online word generator.
Other word lists
- Celebrities (a list of famous people and characters for the game Celebrities)
- A list of adverbs (for In the manner of the adverb)
- Get to know you questions (and another version of questions more suited for younger children)
- Categories (a list you could use for several games)
- Star Wars Actions (for a new came called pictionades)
- Would you rather phrases for the game Would you rather
Other posts with printables
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Don’t Eat Pete |
3D triple-decker tic tac toe |
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The dot game (large grid) |
The dot game (small grid) |
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Halloween Don’t Eat Pete (visit the link for a poster-sized version) |
12 Days of Christmas drop-off |
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Halloween costume bingo (blank) |
Halloween costume bingo (pre-made) |
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Airport scavenger hunt |
Thanksgiving gratitude charades |
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Hangman |
The Game Gal’s valentines |
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Date night series: Ice cream swap |
Date night series: People watching |
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Evacuation game list |
Fourth of July BINGO (whole packet) |
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Boo Halloween Doorbell Ditch |
Date night series: Dream home sweepstakes |
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What Vocabulary Words Do You Teach?
The Word Up Project teaches students words that they are likely to encounter on high-stakes tests. Flocabulary’s research team created these word lists by first compiling words from grade-appropriate novels and basal readers (with an emphasis on Tier 2 words). The researchers then analyzed how often these vocabulary words appeared on state tests. The words that appeared most often are the ones taught in The Word Up Project.
For each reading level, our researchers looked at state tests at that level and two grade levels above. So the words taught in Level Indigo (grade 5) are those words that are both found in 5th grade reading material and are most likely to appear on state tests in 5th, 6th and 7th grades. You can view a pdf of the compiled word lists here or choose your grade level below.
Additionally, we have a series of songs that teach SAT vocabulary words. The 500 challenging words were chosen based on a study of the vocabulary that appeared on the SAT most frequently over the course of five years. You can see the pdf of the SAT vocabulary here.
The Word Up Project Word Lists
Word Up Level Peach — Kindergarten Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Grape — 1st Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Turquoise — 2nd Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Red — 3rd Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Orange — 4th Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Indigo — 5th Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Green — 6th Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Yellow — 7th Grade Vocabulary Word List
Word Up Level Blue — 8th Grade Vocabulary Word List
Instantly download our free printable CVC word lists. Ordered in a variety of ways so you can use them for different purposes.
Our short vowel lists contain common word families.
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What are CVC Words?
CVC is an abbreviation used to describe words that contain a consonant followed by a vowel and then another consonant. Examples of CVC words include ‘hot’, ‘bug’, ‘pen’ and ‘cap’.
Why Teach CVC Words?
CVC words are some of the easiest words for beginning readers to blend and segment during the early stages of phonics instruction.
Kids need lots of practice reading CVC words to develop their phonemic awareness before they’re introduced to more complex words.
Although CVC words are quite common, it can be difficult to think of enough examples when you are teaching, so we’ve made several sets of free printable CVC word lists so you will always have plenty to use…
Our short vowel lists contain common word families.
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Contents:
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- CVC Words in Alphabetical Order
- Over 120 Common CVC Words in Random Order
- CVC Words Containing ‘Short a’
- CVC Words Containing ‘Short e’
- CVC Words Containing ‘Short i’
- CVC Words Containing ‘Short o’
- CVC Words Containing ‘Short u‘
- CVC Words – Swapping Vowels
- Short Words Containing ‘ck’
- CVC Words for Smooth/Continuous Blending
- Guidance Notes
- Words to Avoid with Beginning Readers
- Further Resources
Free Printable CVC Word Lists…
CVC Words Containing ‘Short a’
These are arranged in two separate lists: First they are grouped alphabetically with only the last letter changing and then they are arranged in groups with common word endings to make word families.
CVC Words Containing ‘Short e’
These are arranged in two separate lists: First they are grouped alphabetically with only the last letter changing and then they are arranged in groups with common word endings to make word families.
CVC Words Containing ‘Short i’
These are arranged in two separate lists: First they are grouped alphabetically with only the last letter changing and then they are arranged in groups with common word endings to make word families.
CVC Words Containing ‘Short o’
These are arranged in two separate lists: First they are grouped alphabetically with only the last letter changing and then they are arranged in groups with common word endings to make word families.
CVC Words Containing ‘Short u’
These are arranged in two separate lists: First they are grouped alphabetically with only the last letter changing and then they are arranged in groups with common word endings to make word families.
Short Words Containing ‘ck’
These aren’t strictly CVC words, but they contain the same pattern of sounds as CVC words. They can be read in the same way if you instruct your child that ‘ck’ just represents one sound.
Guidance Notes…
All of the words in our lists are real words (or at least Scrabble words) and many of them are common, but some are abbreviations and a few have informal spellings or they are slang words. However, they are all words that can appear in literature. (We’ve tried to avoid any potentially rude words, although meanings can differ in different locations).
In the beginning, it’s best to stick to words that your child is familiar with. But once they become more fluent, you can also let them try some words they haven’t heard before.
This is important because unusual words can appear often in children’s literature (particularly for fictional character or place names). Your child might also be tested with pseudo / nonsense words in a phonics check at school.
You will notice that we’ve included words that start with ‘qu’. These aren’t strictly CVC words because they have an extra letter. But many phonics programmes teach the letter combination ‘qu’ as if it’s an individual letter because q and u almost always appear together in words.
Also note that some of the words might have a different sound for the letter ‘u’ in some accents. For example the word ‘put’ might have a different vowel sound than the one in ‘cup’. Just use the sounds that are normal for your local accent and let your child know that the same letter can sometimes represent more than one sound.
It’s important to start your child with words that contain the most common letter-sound relationships initially. So all of the words in our lists contain the ‘short’ vowel sounds found in words such as ‘cat’, ‘bed’, ‘pig’, ‘dog’ and ‘cup’. We’ve also avoided words where the consonants represent alternative sounds, such as in the word ‘gym’.
We’ve compiled a list of words to avoid with beginning readers below:
- bah, bar, bay, bey, bow, boy, bur, buy,
- car, caw, cig, cor, cow, coy,
- dah, day, dew, duh,
- far, Fay, few, fey, fir, for, fur,
- gay, gel, gem, gib, gin, gor, guy, gym,
- hah, has, hay, her, hew, hey, his, how, hoy, huh,
- jar, jaw, jay, Jew, joy,
- Kay, key,
- lar, law, lay, low,
- mar, maw, may, mew, mic, mow,
- nah, nay, new, nor, now,
- pah, par, paw, pay, per, pew, pow, pur,
- quad, quay,
- rah, raw, ray, reg, row,
- saw, say, sew, sir, son, sow, soy,
- tar, ton, tor, tow, toy,
- veg, vow,
- wan, war, was, way, won, wow,
- yah, yar, yaw, yay, yew,
Further Resources:
Your children can also practise reading CVC words for free if you register with some of the specialist reading programmes that offer free trials.
For example:
Parents and teachers can register for a 30-day free trial with Reading Eggs. This allows you to access over 500 highly interactive games and fun animations for developing Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.
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Although it’s not quite free, you can get a 30-day trial with the award-winning Hooked on Phonics programme for just $1.
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