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Learning high-frequency words by sight is a critical part in learning to read.  As you search for sight word lists for your child to study, two different lists come up: Dolch Sight Words and Fry Sight Words. What are these lists? How do they differ? Do you choose one list or do your kids need to study both lists?

Let’s start at the beginning.

What are sight words?

Sight words are the most common words we teach young kids to learn by heart. Think of the most common English prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and articles and you’ll know the words that are on the list. They are words such as “an’, ‘blue’, ‘and’, ‘come’, ‘who’ and ‘does’.

Dr. Seuss is a good reference point for sight words. In fact, every word in Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat is a Dolch sight word.

Relative adverbs are words that refer to a place, a time or a reason for something. One easy way to remember what the relative adverbs are is the Three Ws: Where, When and Why.

It can be hard for students to use the correct adverb in sentences that relate to places, time or reasons.

The important thing is for students to focus on what is being talked about in identifying whether to use where, when or why.

Let’s use this in an example.

I like to eat at restaurants __________ I can order a pizza.

The adverb in this sentence refers to the word: “restaurants”.

Restaurants are places.

Where refers to a place.

Therefore, the correct adverb for this sentence is where.

I like to eat at restaurants where I can order pizza.

Practice relative adverbs

In our grade 4 grammar section we have two sets of worksheets to practice relative adverbs.

Where, when and why worksheets

In these worksheets, students are given sentences where they have to fill in the correct adverb: when, where or why.

In grade 2 students learn the place value of 3-digit numbers.

What is place value?

Place value is the location of a digit in a number. The value of a digit depends on its position in a number. Each place has the value of 10 times the place to its right. For example, the number 68 is made up of 60 and 8.

3-digit numbers

In 3-digit numbers, students learning about the positions of ones, tens and hundreds. As you can see, each number has the value 10 times that of the number on its right:

In kindergarten science, kids are encouraged to develop curiosity about the world around them. As part of the molecules to organism curriculum standard, they start to learn about plants and animals, including humans, and what they need to survive.

To fulfil the need to explore what humans need to survive, we’ve created worksheets on food and nutrition in our kindergarten science section.

There are three sets of worksheets:

Fruit or vegetable?

Students are asked to distinguish between pictures of vegetables and fruit in these worksheets.