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Moe, Alden J.; Hopkins, Carol J. – 1975
The purposes of this study were to compile lists of the words used by kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade children in their oral language and to examine differences in the diversity of the vocabularies among the three grade levels. Twenty-nine kindergarten, 25 first-grade, and 23 second-grade children, all of whom attended schools in…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Hopkins, Carol J. – Elementary School Journal, 1979
This study identifies high-frequency words in the spontaneous vocabulary of 125 first grade children, and suggests ways to use the word list in teaching beginning readers. (CM)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students