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ws/dolch/ From 50-75% of all words used in school books, library books, newspapers, and magazines are in the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary of 220 words (preschool thru Grade 3). The Dolch word list is made up of "service words" (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs). http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/dolch-sight-words.html The Dolch Sight Words are a list of the 220 most frequently used words in the English language. These sight words make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text. The Dolch list was developed by Edward William Dolch, PhD, in 1948 and published in his book "Problems in Reading." Dolch compiled his sight word list based on the words most frequently used in children's reading books in the 1930's and 1940's. Dolch found that children who can identify a certain core group of words by sight could learn to read and comprehend better. Dolch's sight word lists are still widely used today and highly respected by both teachers and parents. These sight words were designed to be learned and mastered by the third grade. The list of Dolch words contains 220 words that have been arranged by levels of advancing difficulty: Preprimer Primer First Grade Second Grade Third Grade These 220 sight words include pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs. In addition, there is a separate list of 95 Dolch nouns. http://www.learn-to-read-prince-george.com/dolch-word-lists.html Dolch word lists were developed by Edward Dolch, PhD. in 1936. He picked out commonly used words in the childrens books of his time. It was his thought that if children memorized these words, also called sight words, it would help them learn to read faster and better. It is estimated that about 50% - 75% of words in childrens books are found in this list. There are 220 words on the main Dolch word lists plus an additional 95 common nouns. While the main Dolch word list is divided into different grade levels up to grade three, it is usually recommended that all these sight words be memorized by the end of grade one. Some children are good at memorization and accomplish this quickly. Many other young students struggle at what seems like an overwhelming task. The Dolch words are also commonly known as "sight words" because very often they cannot be either illustrated via simple pictures or sounded out according to regular phonetic decoding rules. They need to be learned and recognized 'on sight'. http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-word-list-frequency-grade.html

http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sightwords/sight-words-dolch-list-dolch-word-list-parts-ofspeech/ http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sight-words/ [] Frys Sight Words List More recently, Fry published a list of the most common words in English and ranked them in order of frequency. The first 25 words make up approximately a third of all written material. The first 100 and 300 words make up about 50% and 65% of all printed material, respectively. Frys Sight Words in Alphabetical Order Frys Sight Words in Frequency Order Frys Sight Words by Parts of Speech http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sightwords/100-most-common-words/ More recently, Dr Edward Fry, Ph.D. and Jacqueline E Kress, Ed.D. compiled a list of the most common words in the English language. The first twenty-five words make up approximately one third of printed material. All of the ten words noted above are included on this list. In addition, all of the corpus 100 most common words are included in the Frys 300 most common words, which comprise 65% percent of all written material. http://shelly.kpfu.ru/e-ksu/docs/F1606793611/Levenshtein.versus.WALS.FINAL.pdf Earlier experiments in Holman et al (2008) on 245 languages have shown that the 100-item Swadesh list may be reduced to a much shorter one, without loss and even with a gain in classificatory reliability. The subset we selected contains the 40 most stable elements from the original list. They are given in Table 1 below, which is extracted from the appendix of Holman et al (2008). Table 1. The 40 most stable Swadesh items I Leaf Knee Star You Skin Hand Water We Blood Breast Stone One Bone Liver Fire Two Horn Drink Path Person Ear See Mountain Fish Eye Hear Night Dog Nose Die Full Louse Tooth Come New Tree Tongue Sun Name