Decatur City Schools Vocabulary/High Frequency Word List

Dates	Kindergarten	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
August 14- September 15		A, is, on, the, an, in, was, are, and, I, make, makes, by, down, too, who, can, no, there, where & with	The, a, is, you, to, and, we, that, in, not, for, at, with, it, on, can, will, are, of, this, your, as, but, be & have	About Better Bring Carry Clean Cut Done Draw Drink Eight Fall Far Full Got grow	Compare, contrast, summarize, character traits, infer/inference, evaluate, relate, support-the-answer, purpose/theme/main idea, skim, scan, inform, persuade & explain	Inflectional endings: ed, ing Tier II & Tier III words, fiction, non-fiction, setting, main idea, functional reading & references
September 18-October 20	The, and, is, it & you	Her, laugh, my, of, out, will, would, work, you, do, here, one, start, started, be, like, from, good, made, went, play, five, four, three, were, two, get, does, gets, for, so, he, wants, what, pulls, yes, after, have, puts, first, said, new, she, old, to & put	Saw, home, soon, stand, box, upon, first, came, girl, house, find, because, made, could, book, look, mother, run, school, people, night, into, say, think, back, big, where, am, ball, morning, live, four, last, color, away, red, friend, pretty, eat, want, year, white, got, play, found, left, men, bring, wish, black, may, let, use, these, right, present, tell, next, please & leave	Hold Hot Hurt If Keep Kind Laugh Light Long Much Myself Never Only Own pick	Characters traits, figurative language, plot, setting, point of view, theme, author’s tone, fantasy, tall tales & realistic fiction	Personification, metaphors, simple symbolism, alliteration & onomatopoeia
October 23-November 21	Are, be, in, at & this	Go, going, around, eating, look, saw, some, into, think, see, both, wish, sees, asked, away, how, me, white, little, now, been, could, laughed, live, very, worked & over	Hand, more, why, better, under, while, should, never, each, best, another, seem, tree, name, dear, ran, five, read, over, such, way, too, shall, own, most, sure, thing, only, near, than, open, kind, must, high, far, both, end, also, until, call, ask, small, yellow, show, goes, clean, buy, thank, sleep, letter, jump, help, fly, don’t, fast, cold, today, does, face & green		Summarize, main idea, fables, legends, mysteries, compare/contrast & text features	Context clues, analogies, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, prefixes, suffixes, historical/realistic fiction, mysteries & compare/contrast
November 27-January 12	For, his, have, from & to	Eating, together, being, give, use, please, once, read, goes, again, gives, looks, today, plays, lives, done, carry, about, every, comes, pretty & know	Every, brown, coat, six, gave, hat, car, write, try, myself, longer, those, hold, full, carry, eight, sing, warm, sit, dog, ride, hot, grow, cut, seven, woman, funny, yes, ate, stop, off, sister, happy, once, didn’t, set, round, dress, fall, wash, start, always, anything, around, close, walk, money, turn, might, hard, along, bed, fine, sat, hope, fire, ten, order, part & early	Seven Shall Show Six Small Start Ten Today Together Try warm	Compare/contrast, biography, multi-meaning words & analogies	Poetry, cause/effect, author’s purpose, stanza, line, refrain, verse, meter, metaphor, simile, rhyme, rhythm, summarize, supporting details & interpret
January 15-February 16	Was, on, they, of & like	Any, many, wanted, works, pull, pulled & pulling	Fat, third, same, love, hear, yesterday, eyes, door, clothes, though, o’clock, second, water, town, took, pair, now, keep, head, food, told, Miss, father, children, land, interest, government, feet, garden, done, country, different, bad, across, yard, winter, table, story, sometimes, I’m, tried, horse, something, brought, shoes, time, yet, true, above, still, meet, since, number, state, matter, line, remember, large, few, bit	Dolch words (see previous lists)	Drawing conclusions, author’s purpose, main idea, sequence of events, historical fiction, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms & homophones	Autobiography, fact/opinion, character traits, sequence of events, nonfiction & author’s purpose
February 19-March 16	With, that, he, she & as		Cover, window, even, city, together, sun, life, street, party, suit, word, almost, thought, send, receive, pay, nothing, need, mean, late, half, fight, enough, feel, during, gone, hundred, week, between, change, being, care, answer, course, against, wear, Mr., side, poor, lost, outside, wind, Mrs., learn, held, front, built, family, began, air, young, ago, world, airplane, without, kill, ready, stay, won’t & paper	Dolch words (see previous lists)	Compare/contrast, context clues, fact/opinion, inference & simile	Autobiography, biography, character traits, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, classify, categorize, summarize, main idea & supporting details