Name: High Frequency Words By Sound - The Scope & Sequence (Includes Heart Words)
Brand: Bumblebee Reading Co
Price: 5.00 USD
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High Frequency Words By Sound - The Scope & Sequence (Includes Heart Words)

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Grades

Kindergarten - 3rd

Mostly used with 1st

Subjects

English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Spelling

Description

Please read what is included before purchasing this product!

Are you already familiar with phoneme grapheme mapping & looking to integrate your high frequency words with phonics? This scope & sequence is for you!

I've taken 220+ words and sorted them by phonics skill. There are 179 regular high frequency words and 57 heart words.

With this purchase you get the rationale of how I sorted the words and the full scope and sequence. If you are looking for assessments, please check out this version of the scope and sequence that includes assessments for all 236 words.

This is a scope & sequence only, meant to save you time sorting the words yourself. While it is only 2 pages, this took me a long time and I would gladly pay this price to never have to do this again. If you do not feel the price is fair, please remember you are able to do this yourself & you do not have to purchase this resource. Thank you!

If you are looking student workbooks and/or teaching slides, please click here!

This product is discounted on my website.

Please reach out with any questions!

Thanks,

Heidi

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Teacher reviews

“Great resource to help plan the order of teaching high frequency words. Awesome tool for newer teachers.”

Lauren K.

“Heidi has compiled this helpful scope and sequence of high frequency words. This makes it easier to teach the students to decode the high frequency words.”

Jennifer P.

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Reviews

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August 23, 2026

Great resource to help plan the order of teaching high frequency words. Awesome tool for newer teachers.

Lauren K.

Grades taught: PreK, K, 1st, 2nd
August 3, 2026

Heidi has compiled this helpful scope and sequence of high frequency words. This makes it easier to teach the students to decode the high frequency words.

Jennifer P.

Grades taught: PreK, K, 1st, 2nd
June 24, 2026

I used this resource to help with my kindergarten year. I loved it!

Chelsea H.

Grades taught: 1st, K
March 23, 2026

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!

Bonnie N.

Grades taught: PreK, K, 1st, 2nd
February 7, 2026

Excellent resource to have on hand for our homeschool.

Kristine P.

Grades taught: 1st, K, 2nd
January 28, 2026

I like using this map to help guide through sight words that are needed.

Stephani T.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
November 1, 2025

this is an excellent resource. Thank you for creating!

Laura R.

Grades taught: PreK, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
September 21, 2025

I appreciate the work done on this, but some words are used twice in different areas and I felt like it was a higher cost compared to other similar products.

laurie B.

Grades taught: 1st
August 27, 2025

This resource helped me plan out which high frequency words I was going to teach/review with my students each week. Learning the words grouped by sound was very helpful for a lot of my kiddos.

Twenty-two S.

Grades taught: 1st
August 13, 2025

This was a great resource to help me organize our sign words into reasonable spelling lists for kinder!

Sweet G.

Grades taught: K, 1st
July 29, 2025

This resource is exactly as shown and is helpful for planning when to teach high-frequency words.

Miranda O.

Grades taught: 1st
July 3, 2025

Loved this resource and that it is grouped by sound. Students were engaged.

Chemise D.

Grades taught: 1st
June 1, 2025

An incredibly helpful resource for teaching high-frequency words in a way that aligns with the Science of Reading! The sound-based scope and sequence makes instruction clear and intentional, and the inclusion of Heart Words is a big plus. A must-have for structured literacy planning!

Mignon C.

Grades taught: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, K
May 22, 2025

This helped me to organize the sight words to go over with my students.

Victoria B.

Grades taught: 1st
April 23, 2025

This really helped me understand how the heart words go together and how to plan my intervention lessons.

Patricia C.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
April 15, 2025

Great resource to use when planning phonemic instruction.

Chevelle M.

Grades taught: 1st
April 12, 2025

This resource was extremely helpful in organizing sight words in a way that aligns more closely with decodable patterns, unlike many traditional word lists. It provided a more logical and accessible progression for students, supporting both decoding skills and word recognition.

Marisa S.

Grades taught: 1st
February 3, 2025

Wonderful resource! Highly recommend using with your students!

Amie S.

Grades taught: 1st
January 8, 2025

This a great resource for teaching high frequency words. I love how it is broken down by skill and shows which words are "heart words". I use this chart daily.

Jensen F.

Grades taught: 1st
November 20, 2024

This is a very simple and easy to use scope and sequence for my grade one students. I look through the heart words as I assign my students weekly spelling words based on what reading rule we are doing that week.

Miss S.

Grades taught: 1st
November 11, 2024

This list is perfect to help guide my reading instruction at home with ESL students. Thank you!

AVR B.

Grades taught: 1st
October 22, 2024

I used this resource to create flashcard bundles for my students to practice learning HFW.

Courtney W.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
September 1, 2024

This was a great resource to have to help me teach sight words!

Kristina D.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
August 29, 2024

It was fine, but not worth the money spent. Thank you

Nicole S.

Grades taught: 1st, 2nd, K
August 27, 2024

This was a wonderful resource that helped me and parents understand the process of phonics rules

Karra M.

Grades taught: 1st, K
August 8, 2024

GREAT RESOURCE! Used it for a observation and it was great hit.

Jessica F.

Grades taught: 5th, 1st
June 30, 2024

This was very useful to guide my phonics instruction.

Kathleen L.

Grades taught: 1st
June 29, 2024

great addition to my planning resources for the way I program

Diana F.

Grades taught: 2nd, 1st
June 19, 2024

This is a great resource! Thank you for creating something to support the learning in my classroom.

Cassandra B.

Grades taught: 1st
June 7, 2024

This has been a game changer to my phonics/spelling program. Not only is it laid out nicely and easy to read, but it helps the teacher figure out what words should be taught.

Stephanie H.

Grades taught: 1st
June 7, 2024

Great resource for teaching high frequency words.

Chelo B.

Grades taught: 1st
May 30, 2024

This resource saved me so much time and is exactly what I was looking for!

Melanie W.

Grades taught: 1st
May 9, 2024

This has been so helpful as I've been teaching heart words, making sure I use words that align with what I'm teaching in phonics each week.

Tawna G.

Grades taught: 1st
April 21, 2024

Was able to use this resource to align irregularly spelled words with phonics instruction.

Julie S.

Grades taught: 1st
March 18, 2024

Great resource I use in the class with my students.

Mary P.

Grades taught: 1st, K
March 13, 2024

I use this and teach these words in this order! It has been a game changer for my students in special education.

Tiffany W.

Grades taught: 1st
December 7, 2023

This is very helpful in my small group station to work on writing these words.

Danielle C.

Grades taught: 1st, 2nd
November 30, 2023

LOVE this resource! This has helped my students so much!

Kalie C.

Grades taught: 1st
October 21, 2023

Fantastic! This is the best & I love all of your resources. Thank you!

Duck T.

Grades taught: 1st
October 11, 2023

This was a great resource to use in aligning high-frequency words with phonics instruction.

Lisa T.

Grades taught: 1st, 2nd
September 25, 2023

Thank you for helping us change the way our students are learning!!

Liss G.

Grades taught: 1st
September 23, 2023

This is very helpful with knowing when and how to introduce certain words.

Jenna H.

Grades taught: 1st
September 19, 2023

What a great way to reinforce the skills learned

Adrienne H.

Grades taught: 1st
September 15, 2023

This is exactly what I needed to reorganize the sight words I'm supposed to teach into a much more logical sequence. Now my students get sight words that fit their phonics skill instead of having to memorize words at random.

Todd O.

Grades taught: 1st
September 9, 2023

Great resource to help me plan out my core word instruction for the year.

cora B.

Grades taught: 1st
September 5, 2023

Great resource for my class. Helps make sure I am hitting the heart words.

Rachael K.

Grades taught: 1st
September 3, 2023

I love this so much! It makes much more sense to introduce sight words by like phonics patterns. I appreciate this resource so much!

Teaching G.

Grades taught: 1st
August 26, 2023

The resource allows for easy planning and promotes decoding with newly learned skills.

Luz S.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
August 20, 2023

Great resource and was raved about by parents for helping them understand sounding out sight words

Renata M.

Grades taught: 1st, K
August 19, 2023

Really appreciate the intentional grouping of high-frequency words which helps lessen the cognitive load for neurodiverse learners!

Tracy U.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
August 12, 2023

Thanks for doing all of the thinking so that I can do all of the teaching and not have to spend my own time sorting out the patterns!

MajerEd

Grades taught: 1st
August 8, 2023

These are amazing and I have really enjoyed adding them into my day.

Krissisissy

Grades taught: 1st
August 6, 2023

This resource will allow me to plan on the delivery of high frequency words!!

Leticia C.

Grades taught: 1st
August 2, 2023

My first graders loved this resource and it really helped to read high frequency words

The C.

Grades taught: 1st
July 30, 2023

Great for planning meaningful sightword instruction in my classroom.

Michele Z.

Grades taught: 1st
July 30, 2023

Thank you for making this resource, it has helped a lot.

Colleen S.

Grades taught: 1st
July 30, 2023

My students will benefit greatly from this resource!

ashley B.

Grades taught: K, 2nd, 1st
July 10, 2023

I enjoy using this resource to align our phonics skills with high frequency words. Systematically and intentionally teaching high frequency and heart words has helped me better serve my scholars. I have seen great growth in their reading.

Doing B.

Grades taught: 1st
July 6, 2023

I absolutely LOVE this resource! I was able to create different flash cards to help my students better understand sight words using the phonic rules we go over daily. Many students remembered their rules better this way, especially because it is categorized by it. 2nd year teacher and I love it, love it, love it!

Sarah B.

Grades taught: 1st
July 5, 2023

I loved using this resource! It worked well and was easy to use.

To B.

Grades taught: 1st
June 22, 2023

This a great resource for teachers trying to use the science of reading in their classrooms. It's simple, attractive, and it's definitely easy to use. :)

choosehozhoteacher

Grades taught: 1st
June 22, 2023

Very awesome resource, thanks so much! Can't wait to check out more.

Ms I.

Grades taught: 1st
June 2, 2023

We loved using this is our class! The students were able to show me what they knew with this resource!

Alison H.

Grades taught: 1st
June 1, 2023

I used this resource to build our spelling lists. It is a great visual for showing how the words all fit together and it is less overwhelming than thinking of it only as memorizing sight words. I love the science of reading and this resource really helps in the organization of when to teach which words!!

Rhiannon T.

Grades taught: 1st
May 30, 2023

Having a scope and sequence is so helpful for planning. I appreciate the heart words

Michele M.

Grades taught: 1st
May 26, 2023

This makes so much sense! It will help me add more words to my curriculum!

Second S.

Grades taught: 1st, K
May 21, 2023

Thank you so much Heidi! We will be using this list for our instruction!

Krazy T.

Grades taught: 1st
May 2, 2023

This is the perfect scope and sequence for learning sight words.

Laura M.

Grades taught: K, 1st
April 12, 2023

This resource is really helpful for trying to approach teaching using science of reading methods.

Stephanie L.

Grades taught: 1st
April 10, 2023

This helps keep me focused in getting my skills taught and in a correct sequence. Thank you!

Lisa E.

Grades taught: 1st
March 29, 2023

My students loved this and it helped me stay organized and help teach them. Very good resource. I feel my students will be able to learn better especially because I am a new teacher and need resources to help me.

Amy V.

Grades taught: 1st
March 21, 2023

This will be very useful in my classroom. Thanks so much.

Angela G.

Grades taught: 1st
March 20, 2023

Im so glad that this resource was created. Thank you so much!!

Shift L.

Grades taught: 1st
March 10, 2023

Very helpful tool to have the words sorted by skill. It is easy to get a set of words to use knowing that they will be meaningful to what you are teaching at the time.

Erin C.

Grades taught: 1st
February 24, 2023

What a great resource that aligns with the science of reading.

ChLoris C.

Grades taught: 1st
February 10, 2023

BUY THESE! This is such a wonderful resource for teaching all high frequency words.

Teachin' P.

Grades taught: 1st
January 23, 2023

This has been a GREAT resource to use next to our district-provided curriculum.

Courtney E.

Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd
January 15, 2023

Great list but realized that I could just teach teh words as they came up in my currciulum. I dont reference the list as often as I thought I would.

Brionna R.

Grades taught: 1st
January 8, 2023

I bought this on a sale. $3 for the resource was good for all the work put into it. However a few words are missing "here" is one of them. I like the words listed by skill but would have liked a separate page with the "true" heart words grouped more by their vowel sound the "heart" part.

Jessica P.

Grades taught: 1st
December 4, 2022

Great resource to have to extend the learning of high frequency words.

Molly C.

Grades taught: 1st