Sight Words

Today’s Most Common Sight Words The Oxford Corpus is a tool used by the Oxford Dictionaries to track the evolution of the English language. It is a collection of texts detailing written or spoken language that is presented in an electronic format. The corpus represents all types of English; it comprises newspapers, magazines, novels, professional…

Dolch Sight Words – By Level of Difficulty Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. further analyzed his list of 220 sight words; he categorized them into two groups: easy and hard. Using a Wisconsin study that tested 6,000 students in both first and second grade, he categorized the sight words according to level of difficulty. Dolch provided…

Dolch Sight Words – By Parts of Speech Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. created a list of 220 sight words which contains conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives and verbs. He referred to these words as “service” words because these words are found in all reading material. Early emergent readers should focus on instantly recognizing these words…

Top Ten Sight Words Before we divulge the top ten sight words, we need to understand the word, lexeme. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines this word as a meaningful linguistic unit that is an item in the vocabulary of a language. Perhaps an example will illustrate this simple concept that when defined makes my head spin….

Contains a progressive list of sight words Our kindergarten curriculum identified 25 sight words (List 1) that a student should master by the end of kindergarten. She must automatically recognize these words upon sight. In addition, they provided additional sight word lists (List 2, 3 & 4) for any child who is beginning to read…

Our school district identified the first key to college readiness is advanced reading in kindergarten through second grade. Teaching a child to read is critical to their success in school as well as in life.