Level 7 and 8

WORDS WITH SILENT LETTERS

&
SIGHT WORDS

By: Filippina T. Bencan

Level 7 (Words with Silent Letters)
Silent letters are letters written in words that do
not produce any sound in the word.
One way of introducing them to students is to
show that those letters aren't always silent. They can
be heard in similar words. For example, the b may be
silent in debt, but it's heard in debit. Similarly, the g in
sign is silent, but it is not in signal.
Level 7 (Words with Silent Letters)
Silent B
bomb crumb debt
climb doubt subtle
comb dumb
Silent C
ascent conscious crescent
descend descent disciple
muscle scenario
Silent D
bridge edge handkerchief
handsome handful
grandson ledger sandwich
Silent G
align assign benign
champagne cologne
design foreign high
Silent H
anchor archeology chaos
architect character
charisma chemical echo
Silent K
knack knave
knee knife
knob
Silent L
would should
calf half
talk
Silent P
Psychology pneumonia
Psychiatrist psychotic
receipt
Silent U
biscuit build circuit
disguise guess
Silent W
sword wrack
wrap wreck
wriggle
Silent M
mnemonic mnemic
mnemonist
mnemonical
Silent T
apostle bristle
castle glisten
hustle
Silent N
autumn column
condemn damn
hymn solemn
Level 8 (Dolch/Fry Words)
The Dolch list is made up of 220 words and
contains no nouns unless they can be used as
another part of speech. (Dolch created a separate
list of 95 nouns.) The Fry list contains 1,000
words and includes all parts of speech. ... They are
listed by age group, whereas the first 300 Fry
words are listed by order of frequency. 12 Jul 2019
 Both the Dolch and Fry word lists were developed based
on the most frequently-occurring words in the English
language.
According to Readsters.com, both lists were based on
secondary sources, but the Fry list was updated in 1980 to add
words from a more recent word frequency count.
The Fry words list is based on the "American Heritage
Word Frequency Book", whose 87,000 words are ranked by the
frequency in which they occur in reading material for grade 3
to 9.