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Peer reviewedLowe, A. J.; Follman, John – Reading Teacher, 1974
Documents the high degree of similarity between basic word lists derived from a variety of word lists and the Dolch list. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills
Download full textJohns, Jerry L. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of words that the Dolch list and the word list for the 1970's accounted for in written materials. The two word lists were compared by token comparison--a method by which words are weighted on the basis of frequency of occurrence within a given set of materials. The written materials used…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading, Reading Level, Reading Research
Peer reviewedMangieri, John N.; Kahn, Michael S. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Reading Research, Sight Vocabulary, Textbook Research
Johns, Jerry L. – 1976
After a brief historical review of the development of basic reading materials and controlled vocabularies, a study to determine the percentage of Dolch words in four recently published basal reader programs is reported. The percentages provided help in determining whether the Dolch list is still viable. Results revealed that words on the Dolch…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Materials
Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L. – Reading Horizons, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L. – Reading World, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Reading Research
Froese, Victor – 1974
The purpose of this study was to compare student's tested recognition of the Dolch 220 words with their responses to the 220 highest frequency words found by Kucera and Francis in their "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English." Subjects consisted of 155 second graders and 179 third graders from classrooms in four schools…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading, Reading Research
Johns, Jerry L.; And Others – 1974
This study replicated and validated the Dolch basic sight vocabulary investigation. Dolch's method of compiling his list of 95 nouns was also replicated. Some discrepancies were found between the replication study and Dolch's investigations--a few words were left off the lists, although they apparently met all the criteria for inclusion, and a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Readability, Reading
Johns, Jerry L. – 1974
This paper compares a recent revision of the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary with four recently published word lists to find words common to at least three of the four word lists which were not on the Dolch list. These lists were consisted of the 500 most frequent words from the American Heritage Intermediate corpus, the 188 high frequency words from…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Research
Peer reviewedLeibert, Robert E. – Reading Horizons, 1991
Focuses on the examination of pupil responses for grades two through four in a study that provides more recent information about the performance of pupils on the Dolch Test. Provides some observations to assist teachers in interpreting the result of pupil responses to these words. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Reading Research, Sight Vocabulary
Burgett, Russell; King, James – 1989
A study compared peripheral vision applied to letter-pair and Dolch word recognition. Subjects, 6 normal readers, 12 Chapter 1 students, and 34 learning disabled (and assumed dyslexic) students from grades one through three enrolled in a parochial school, a public school, and a university summer reading clinic, completed a test designed to…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet), Primary Education
