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Download full textMoe, Alden J. – 1976
This 41-item bibliography of word lists and reading and writing vocabularies includes such entries as "Basic Elementary Reading Vocabularies,""The Functional Reading Word List for Adults,""Sight Words for Beginning Reading," and "A Basic Vocabulary for Elementary School Children." (TS)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Bibliographies, Reading, Sight Vocabulary
Peer reviewedMoe, Alden J. – Reading Improvement, 1973
Reports a study identifying the most commonly used words in 110 highly recommended trade books for children in grades one and two. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Instruction
Hopkins, Carol J.; Moe, Alden J. – 1978
The complete texts of 250 trade books for children in the primary grades were analyzed by computer in order to identify recurring two- and three-word strings. Of the 202,763-word sample that resulted, 89 two-word strings occurred 100 times or more, and only two three-word strings occurred more than 100 times. These frequencies represent,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Computers
