Heart Words
Irregular high-frequency words with the tricky 'heart' part marked to learn by heart.
High-frequency word flashcards
The common words worth knowing on sight. This set covers heart words (with the tricky part marked to learn by heart), irregular high-frequency words, and homophones — the words that appear most often in early reading and can't always be sounded out.
Best for any reader building fluency — used alongside phonics from Foundation onward.
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About the High-Frequency Words set
The common words worth knowing on sight. This set covers heart words (with the tricky part marked to learn by heart), irregular high-frequency words, and homophones — the words that appear most often in early reading and can't always be sounded out. Every card is professionally printed on durable cardstock and packed in a clear PVC case that keeps the cards safe and waterproof — ready for busy classrooms and kitchen tables alike. Printed and posted from Australia.
Parents and teachers often find this set when searching for heart word flashcards, sight word flashcards, high frequency word cards, homophone flashcards and tricky word flashcards Australia. Whatever you call them, they follow the same structured-literacy sequence used across Australian classrooms.
Common questions
What is a heart word?
A heart word is a high-frequency word with one 'tricky' part that doesn't follow the regular code — so that part is learned 'by heart'. The rest of the word is still decodable. Our cards mark the heart part clearly.
Aren't sight words taught by memorising the whole word?
Modern structured-literacy practice moves away from memorising whole words. Instead, children decode the regular parts and learn only the irregular part by heart — which is how these cards are designed.
Not sure where to start?
Our guide walks through the order to teach phonics sounds, from first letters to advanced code.
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