Learning To Spell - Year 1 Keywords

Welcome to our spelling app. We have based our spelling on the list of High Frequency words given to children in reception class (ages 4-5) and Year 1 (Ages 5-6) in the UK. It is recommended that children should be able to read and spell these words by the end of the school year.

High frequency words are common words, words that will and do appear very often in written texts. They are a mixture of decodable words (words that can be sounded out) and tricky/exception words (words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual or uncommon way, which means the words have to be learned and recognised by sight).