Sentence Building Ideas using HFW

So you and your little reader have practised and have learned to read a variety of high-frequency words and are ready to start reading them within a sentence? Be sure to check out our Post-it Note High-Frequency Words Sentence Builders activity. This post has been created to help you come up with a few sentences to put together for that practise.

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Not tried our stand-alone HFW activities yet?

What’s stopping you? Varied, practical and fun, go for it!

What high-frequency words (HFW) are, with a few ideas…

Using Magnetic Word Tiles for High-Frequency Words

List of High-Frequency and Tricky Words Sentence Ideas for Building HFW Sentences

These sentences mix HFW and simple other words. The focus is on the HFW reading. Once your child is confident in reading these, you can always use trickier other words eg. Is it a cat? You can swap for Is it a house?

Phase 2 Words: is, it, in, at, and, the, to, no, go, I, on, a

It is in the bed.

Is it on the dog?

The cat and the dog run.

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Phase 3 Words: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, they, her, all, are

It was you in the shed.

Is she on the chair?

We can see you!

Phase 4 Words: said, so, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, do, when, out, what

They said it was you.

Some were right and some were wrong.

What do you do when you go out?

Phase 5 Words: oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked, water, where, who, again, thought, through, work, mouse, many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once, please, very, I’m, by, time, please

Mrs What asked her friends to come to her house.

Oh I thought it was that one!

Where is my water?