High-Utility Wall Words

From: Cunningham, P.M. (2000) Phonics They Use. (3rd Ed. NY: Longman Press, p62-63)

about / don’t / it / phone / they’re
after / down / it’s / play / thing
all / drink / joke / presents / this
am / each / jump / pretty / those
an / eat / junk / question / time
and / family / kick / rain / to
animal / father / know / ride / too
are / favorite / like / right / trip
as / first / line / run / truck
at / fly / little / said / two
be / for / long / sale / up
because / friend / look / saw / us
been / from / made / school / use
best / fun / mail / see / very
big / get / make / she / eamt
black / girl / many / sister / was
boy / give / me / slow / way
brother / go / more / skate / we
bug / good / mother / small / went
but / green / my / snap / were
by / gym / name / so / what
call / had / new / some / when
can / has / nice / sports / where
can’t / have / night / stop / which
car / he / no / street / who
caught / her / not / talk / why
children / here / now / teacher / will
city / him / of / tell / won
clock / his / off / than / won’t
coat / house / old / thank / would
come / how / on / that / write
could / hurt / one / the / you
crash / I / or / their / your
day / if / other / them / zoo
did / in / out / then
didn’t / into / over / there
do / is / people / they

(Contains 50% words children read & write. There is an example word for each initial consonant and for most common blends, common digraphs, and two-letter combinations. There is an expamle for the most common vowel spelling patters, highest utility phongrams (ack, ail, ain, ake…) and most common contractions.)