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McGrath, Gregory L.; McLaughlin, T. F.; Derby, K. Mark; Bucknell, Wendy – Educational Research Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of reading racetracks with three 8-year-old students with learning disabilities. All three children were performing well below grade level in reading. A single subject reversal design was used to evaluate the effects of employing reading racetracks. Corrects responses and errors were…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Word Lists, Sight Vocabulary, Reading Instruction
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Otto, Wayne; Chester, Robert – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Presents the 500 words which appeared most frequently in an extensive sampling of third grade materials, drawn from the Word Frequency Book,'' and compares the list to other existing sight word lists. (AN)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 3, Sight Vocabulary, Word Lists
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