NOTE:This is simply a list of high frequency functional

words that teachers have used in the past. Please feel free to pick and choose the functional words on this list that are most appropriate for your students. You do not have to use all of the words on this list. Just remember that the Word Wall is for High Frequency words only. If you place it on your word wall, it should be a word that your students see repeatedly throughout their lives and that is meaningful to them.

bakery

bank

bathroom

bathroom

book

birthday

bread

boy

cereal

busboy

calendar

cafeteria

chair

candy

church

checkout

coffee

clock

cold

cold

comics

computer

cookie

coupon

date

dairy

dentist

date

desk

doctor

drink

door

emergency

eggs

entrance

enter

father

exit

frozen

fruit

guardian

girl

hands

grocery store

help

help

hot

hospital

hurt

hot

key

Internet

laundry

ladies’ room

list

library

mall

lunch

medicine

meat

menu

men’s room

milk

microwave

mother

mosque

no

napkin

pan

no

post office

police

principal

pour

quiet

produce

refrigerator

read

sandwich

restaurant

sick

school

specials

sit

soda

sports

stir

soup

temple

sugar

vegetables

toilet

wait

wash hands

want

walk

yes

work