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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
Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Examines the original validity of the 220-word Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary, compiled in 1936, and considers whether it accounts for a large percentage of words in current reading usage. (BF)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Sight Vocabulary
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
