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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
Download full textJohns, 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 reviewedJohns, Jerry L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Schools, Reading Instruction
