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- 2-letter words: A list
of all the common 2-letter words in the English language
- 2-letter-word
phrases and sentences.
- 2-letter
words at the beginning of
3-letter words (213 of them) -- a complete list
- 2-letter
words at the end of 3-letter
words (168 of them) -- a complete list
- 4-letter
words with 3-letter word endings -- a
complete list
- 120 most
popular words
- 60
second crunch -- short vowels #1
- 60
second crunch -- short vowels #2
- 60
second crunch -- long vowels #1
- 60
second crunch -- long vowels #2
- 100 most
common words : includes 24 sentences using
these words
- 1000 Most Commonly Used English Words in sets of 100:
http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html
- 167 recommended books from three good sources.
- Activities: Things
to consider doing in a class for beginning readers
- "a" has
nine sounds (this link is not
currently live)
- Aesop's Fables: Forty-nine pages
of Aesop's Fables can be found
here and downloaded free. The artwork is wonderful
and the fables
have stood the test of time. Use the arrows at the top-right.
Great
stories
for kids of almost any age.
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPage?bookid=___aeso_
00150054&pnum1=8&twoPage=false&route=all&size=0&djvu=false&lang=English
- Academic
content standards for kindergarten through grade twelve,
English-Language
Arts / adopted
by the California State Board of Education.
- "American Speller, The", by Noah Webster: Referenced
in this report on "Reading Wars"
- "American Indians in Children's Literature" located at
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/
- Anderson, Kenneth -- author of "The Reading Wars"
- Basic suggestions: public speaking, ridicule, failure
- Belling
The Cat, an Aesop fable
- Bett, Steve: << http://www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/ipa-writing.htm >> Information
about
(1) Writing in a phonemic system, (2) Orton phonograms, (3) phonemes
to graphemes --
and much, much more.
- Blending Speech Sounds: A Neglected
Phonics Skill / by Dr. Patrick Groff / NRRF Board
Member & Senior
Advisor
- Brown Corpus: Words listed by frequency: the
first 2000 most frequent words from the Brown
Corpus (1,015,945 words). <<.http://www.edict.com.hk/lexiconindex/frequencylists/words2000.htm >>
- Building words from speech-sounds.
This link is a misguided attempt to teach children
how
to
build
a
word
from its phonemes by
listening
to a song. Click on "listen to a song".
The singer attempts to pronounce
the individual speech-sounds of simple words like "bat"
and "hat" and
blend them into the words. Because it is virtually impossible to pronounce
all
speech-sounds in isolation, this should never be attempted when trying to teach
children.
"kuh" - "ah" - "tuh" simply does not
sound like "cat". This is not a good way to teach
"phonemic
awareness". The letters "c"-"a"-"t" spell
cat when those letters are written.
But
they do not "spell ", "say", "stand for" or "represent" cat
when
spoken in isolation.
Speech-sounds only say "cat" when they are blended
in natural
speech. <<http://www.songsforteaching.com/jennyfixmanedutunes/buildaword.htm>>
- California State Board of Education:
English-Language Arts /
Academic
content standards for kindergarten through grade twelve.
- California Dept. Of Education:Literature,
Recommended (K-12): << http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/ >>
- Checklist for a Reading Plan
- Children's Literature -- Children's
Picture Book Database at Miami (Ohio) University
<< http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ >> Abstracts
of 5,000 books.
- Classroom Resources: http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/ --
University of Connecticut / Classroom literacy
resources are now just
a click away.
- Cliches: <<http://efl.htmlplanet.com/proverbs.htm
/>> Proverbs, Sayings, Maxims, Adages and Cliches
of
the English Language
- Codes, Patterns and Rules of spelling and
reading. An unfinished cacophony that set the stage for
this website
and book.
- Coles, Gerald
-- referenced in this report --
on "Reading Wars"
- Come Play With
Me
- Common 1-,
2-, 3-, and 4-letter words in the English language. More than 3,000
are listed.
- Consonant duos -- all the 4-letter words that contain consonant
duos
- CORE: Consortium
on Reading Excellence, Inc. Bill Honig, President and former California
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, founded
CORE in 1995.
- Definitions of some reading-related terms
- Dianne McGuiness --"Why Children Can't Read": Referenced
in this report on "Reading Wars"
- DIBELS: nonsense word fluency <<http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/nwf.php>>
- DIBELS:The truth
about DIBELS / September
2,006 / There is a new Heinemann book by Ken
Goodman.
- Dictionaries: On Dictionaries and
Other Helps for Teaching Vocabulary and Spelling / << http://www.dwcummings.com/articles/on_dictionaries_and_other.asp >>
- Dyslexia
definitions and explanations. This should come in handy for teaching
beginning readers
and writers of any age. The site has other interesting material.
- Dyslexia and Adult Literacy: Does
Dyslexia Disempower? By Hugo Kerr
- Dyslexia: Learned
Helplessness and Developmental Dyslexia: A Carts and Horses Issue? / Hugo Kerr
- Digital children's library: http://www.icdlbooks.org/
- Dolch Words: << http://www.brentwood.k12.ca.us/brentwood/Links/DolchProject/index.html >>. We
believe that the very
popular Dolch were are those words most common in literature written for
children.
This can lead to an inbred system if
new authors use these words because they are popular. We are of
the opinion
that it is better to use the words from the Brown Corpus when teaching
children or writing for
children. Also see our list of the
most common words writen by children. Also see High Frequency
Words below
- Educational Games:The Free Educational
Games & Flash Cards
website: http://home.netcom.com/~hexchex/
- English-Language Arts / Academic
content standards for kindergarten through grade twelve, adopted by
the California State Board of Education.
- Educators speak out in a September
2006 letter to the Board of the International Reading Association << http://www.susanohanian.org/show_yahoo.html?id=269 >>
You must read this.
- Elephants can
teach us about human maladaptive behavior.
- English language links .... http://www.wyrdplay.org/
- English spelling
problems: By Masha Bell / This site presents the whole range
of English reading
and spelling problems. It shows why so many learners of English
have difficulties with reading and
writing.http://www.englishspellingproblems.co.uk/
- English spelling
reform ... http://www.wyrdplay.org/
- English usage: A Practical and Authoritative
Guide to Contemporary English
< http://www.bartleby.com/64/ >
- Fair Test: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
works to end the misuses and
flaws of standardized
testing and to ensure
that evaluation
of students, teachers and schools is
fair, open, valid and educationally
beneficial. http://www.fairtest.org/
- Figures of speech and other things: << http://efl.htmlplanet.com/metaphors.htm >> A really good
site about Proverbs, Sayings, Maxims, Adages, Cliches. Metaphors
and such.
- Forrester, Mrs. is putting up a website: Check
it out, she is a hard working, dedicated teacher.
<< http://www.star-ray.com/mrsforrester/pages/ >>
- Fry's Instant Words: << http://www.sd129.org/hall/fry_words.html >> Please
note that "sight words"
and "high frequency words" do
not mean the same thing as presented here. Also note that some
teachers
define sight
words as those words that are so common,
they do not need to be sounded
out, while other teachers define sight words
as those words which are too
difficult to sound out.
These apparently contradictory definitions
can cause trouble if you use one definition and are
trying to talk about
sight words with someone who uses the other definition. Also see High
Frequency
Words below
- Fun, fun, fun -- fun, fun -- fun, fun: Fun
with words /
<< http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/fun.html >>
- Games, Educational :The Free Educational
Games & Flash Cards website:
<< http://home.netcom.com/~hexchex/ >>
- Gestural
origins of language http://www.istc.cnr.it/gall/gesture02.html
- Glossary for
this site.
- Glossary from a government site
- Glossary of classroom reading terms -- under
construction. Send us your entries for
this list.
- Goodman, Ken on DIBELS: The
truth about DIBELS / September 2,006 / There is a
new Heinemann
book by Ken Goodman.
- Groff, Dr. Patrick -- Blending Speech Sounds: A
Neglected Phonics Skill
- Groff, Dr. Patrick -- Decodable words
- Hand: The role of the hand in the evolution of language, by Ullin
T. Place:
http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.007
- High Frequency Words: << http://www.spellangtree.org/140HFwords.htm >> ...140 high
frequency words ... arranged here according to levels of
spelling development ... use for
word recognition & recording
spelling mastery. Each word is followed by five grid spaces
in which to
record the date of mastery.
- History of Teaching Reading: Wilson, Robert
McCole:
author "Teaching
Reading: A History"
- Homework: If
you love homework (does anyone?), or If you question the value of homework,
check
out this link. <<http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/research.htm>>
- How to learn English ... An interesting
site developed by two Polish men who learned to speak
English ... lots of
information ... http://www.antimoon.com
- International
Reading Association -- home page ... << http://www.reading.org/ >>
- Kevin's Word List Page: << http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ >>.
This page contains links to
various Word Lists and related information.
- Learning-to-read:
is it "Natural" or must it be "Taught"? A
call for a study.
- Learning to
Read: Kennebunk (Maine) Elementary
School / Principal's Message / November 2005
- Lesson from the Amish
- Levine, Arthur : Teacher Education: An
attack on the current methods
- Lincoln Weeps / by Bill Moyers
/ October 03, 2006 / The NCLB was a product of this
type of lobbying.
- Listening Vocabulary:
Often overlooked -- a precursor to reading fluency?
- Literacy Connections: Tons
of information on teaching, literacy and the love of reading /
<< http://www.literacyconnections.com/ >>
- Literature, Recommended (K-12): << http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/ >> California
Dept. Of Education
- Literature, Children's -- "American
Indians in Children's Literature" located
at
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/
- Literature, Children's --
Children's Picture Book Database at Miami (Ohio) University
<< http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ >> Abstracts of 5,000 books.
- Literature Guides for teachers of children:
<< http://www.tracievaughnzimmer.com/teacher_guides.htm >>.
A bunch of them -- free.
- LOJIKL INGLISH SPELING << http://www.wyrdplay.org/RolloReid/LI-rules.html >>
A spelling reformer explains his idea for a spelling system.
- "Misreading Reading" -- Gerald
Coles -- referenced in this report on "Reading Wars"
- Mrs. Forrester is putting up a website: Check
it out, she is a hard working, dedicated
teacher. << http://www.star-ray.com/mrsforrester/pages/(this
link is not currently live) >>
- Mrs. McGowan's First Grade / Spring
Lake, NJ / << http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/ >>
- Nation, Paul -- Vocabulary: All sorts
of good information about vocabulary.
<< http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/papers/cup.html >> The
following question is
typical of the questions it intelligently answers.
What vocabulary does a language
learner need? By Paul Nation and Robert
Waring.
- National Council of Teachers of
English / Resolution on the Reading First
Initiative
(http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/gov/107475.htm)
On the Reading
First Initiative
- National Council of Teachers of English
respond to the Inspector General's report
on Reading
First
- National Council of Teachers of English /
home page: << http://www.ncte.org/ >>
- National Reading Panel -- Teaching
Children How To Read
- National Right To Read Foundation: << http://www.nrrf.org/ >> Your online
resource
for phonics products, phonics research, and phonics advocacy
- NCLB: A legal
strategy to stop the NCLB The federal government
tail is wagging
the local school dog. This
information was sent by email to the Attorney General
of the State
of Connecticut which is involved in a legal action against
the Federal
Education Department.
- NCLB Atrocities: Lists hundreds of articles.
- NCLB Analysis: National
Council of Teachers of English / Resolution on
the Reading
First Initiative (http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/gov/107475.htm)
- NCLB is an educational
train wreck: by Marion Brady
- NCLB leads to "Rationing
Education" / By Jennifer Booher-Jennings. "Schools
get
no credit for moving a student from a 15 to a 69, or from a 70 to
a 95. Yet if educators
nudge
a student from a 69 to a 71, the school's passing rate increases."
- No college student left behind? /
Editorial, / Thursday, September 28 /
Bennington
Banner - Bennington, VT, USA / home to Bennington College
- Origin of language ... From the point of view of someone who
argues evolution
is a myth. <<http://www.trueorigin.org/language01.asp>>
- Origin of language by G.A. Wells. <<http://www.english-learning.co.uk/origin.html>>
Quite long and rambling speculation. It is not convincing in the least
- Patterns, Codes and Rules of spelling
and reading. An unfinished cacophony that
set the stage for this
website and book.
- PBS: Reading Rockets: << http://www.readingrockets.org >> /
a PBS site
- Phondot: a New Approach
to Phonics / Welcome to www.phondot.com
- Phoneme ... From Wickipedia ... A technical
discussion of this word and related
words and terms. It is quite complicated
if you are not a skilled linguist, but laymen
can learn a lot from the site even
if they do not understand it completely
<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme>>
- Phoneme Chart ... at Wickipedia. <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Phonemes>>
- Phoneme Chart from TRUESPEL:
If we hadn't developed our own speech-sound
chart before finding this, we would
have adopted this one.
http://www.truespel.com/phonemes2.html
- Phoneme set: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
- Phonemic Notation: << http://www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/ipa-writing.htm >>
All sorts of information about (1) Writing in a phonemic system, (2) Orton
phonograms,
(3) phonemes to graphemes -- and much, much more.
- Phonetic
Alphabet for English: <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_
English#Quick_reference_chart_of_IPA_symbols_used_for_English>>
- Phonics, Syllable and Accent Rules: << http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/phonics.rules.html
>>
From Glendale Community College (California)
- Phonology
Forum ...
Put any term in the search window and you will see what a group of
word
enthusiasts have to say
about that subject. Lots of heavy hitters are contributors...
- Professor Garfield, an
interactive site aimed at kids.
<<http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/introCharacters.html>>
this URL is about phonemes.
- Reading Aloud: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com --
book reviews by Jim Trelease
- Reading and spelling: For FREE Information on reading/spelling
related topics,
including dyslexia
and many free samples of AVKO products.
- Reading and language arts: We don't know who put this website up -- but
it looks
worthwhile << http://readinglanguagearts.us/ >>
- "Reading First" -- An attack
on this program by an Inspector General
- "Reading First" --
A letter from the
Executive
Director of the International Reading Association regarding this program
- "Reading First" -- The National
Council of Teachers of English respond
to
the Inspector General's Report on Reading
First
- "Reading First" -- Criticized in the Washington Post
- "Reading Lessons" -- Gerald
Coles -- referenced in this report on "Reading Wars"
- Reading Plan Checklist
- Reading Reform Foundation / a
U.K. site devoted to evidence-based teaching
practices
/ There is lots or information on the site.
- Reading Rockets: << http://www.readingrockets.org >>
/ a PBS site
- Reading Terms -- under
construction. Send us your entries for
this list.
- Reading Wars: A long treatise on the subject
- Recommended Literature (K-12): << http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/ >>
California Dept. Of Education
- Research: If
you generally believe it when a researcher writes, "Research shows ...",
check out this article where gives specific examples
of
the bogus use of that term and
terms like it <http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/research.htm>
- Resources: http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut / Classroom
literacy resources are now just a click
away.
- Rethinking Schools: << http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ >>Scroll
down to
"Special Article Collections": War,
Terrorism and Our Classrooms / School
Vouchers
/ Bilingual
Education / Bush's
No Child Left Behind Act / The
Return to Separate and
Unequal -- How Minority Students
are Being Shortchanged / Teacher
Unions /
Creationism
in Public Schools / Let's
Talk About Sex.
- Rhymes and rimes: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm
- Rhyming: Show
kids how to rhyme -- it is
lots of fun and you learn a lot about words
while doing it. Call them
"Raps" and call the kids "Rappers"?
- Rules, Patterns and Codes of spelling and
reading. An unfinished cacophony that
set the stage for this website and
book.
- SAMPA phoneme chart .. << http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA_chart_for_English >>
- School Revenue: From
state, local and federal government sources. Why is the
federal tail wagging
the public-school dog?
- Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome by Kim Marie Wood /
http://www.malt.cmich.edu/sssnarrative.htm
- SEARCHES: A great way to teach reading -- it is usually fun
- Short-word aphorisms,
proverbs and quotations
- Sight Words / Fry's Instant Words: << http://www.sd129.org/hall/fry_words.html >>
Please
note that "sight words" and "high frequency words" do
not mean the same
thing as presented here. Also note that some teachers
define sight words as those
words that are so
common, they do not need to be sounded out, while other teachers
define sight words as those words which are too
difficult to sound out. These apparently
contradictory definitions
can cause trouble if you use one definition and are trying to talk
about
sight words with someone who uses the other definition. Also see High Frequency
Words above.
- Sounding-out "photography":
We were challenged to sound-out the word "photography".
- Special English word
list by Voice Of America:
<< http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/wordbook-a.cfm >> 1,500
words
- Spelling, teaching of spelling and reading /
http://www.dwcummings.com/ D. W. Cummings
is a true scholar. I am
sure, from email contacts, that he is a clear thinker. Everything on
his
site is likely to be correct on all accounts.
- Spelling: An
unfinished cacophony that set the stage for this website and book.
- Spellings sorted by phonogram ... http://www.wyrdplay.org/AlanBeale/sound-table-1.html
- Spellings sorted by sound: << http://www.wyrdplay.org/AlanBeale/sound-table-2.html >>
- Spellism: a poem by Hugo Kerr. The
guy is witty, and this ditty will prove that fact to you.
His words are
sweet, his rhythm neat, his message sure and true.
- Trelease, Jim, book reviews by / Reading
Aloud: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com
- Susan Ohanian: We haven't checked
this site thoroughly -- but it certainly looks
worthwhile.at first glance.
<< http://www.susanohanian.org/ >>
Susan Ohanian says
the following describes her site. "Susanohanian.org
is a child-advocacy site, opposing
high stakes testing, NCLB, and scripted
curriculum."
- Synthetic Phonics: http://www.cloudworld.co.uk/teaching-synthetic-phonics.htm .
This is on a very comprehensive UK website
- Synthetic Phonics << http://www.synthetic-phonics.com/ >>: a
website devoted to synthetic
phonics.
Has
a list of phonics organizations at http://www.synthetic-phonics.com/phonics_organization.html
- Synthetic Phonics Teaching Principles
/ From: http://www.rrf.org.uk/52%20Principles.htm
- Talking about thinking --
"What's
your favorite strategy for teaching kids to THINK about thinking? Any
tips?"
- Tapped In: << http://tappedin.org/tappedin/ >>The
online workplace of an international
community of education professionals.
Sponsored by SRI International, which we believe
grew out of Stanford University.
- Teacher Education: An
attack on the current methods -- by Arthur Levine
- Teachers, what are they talking
about? This
link leads to the archives of a reading teachers'
listserv. The posted messages
are almost
always worthwhile. They are a little hard to wade
through -- but if you want straight talk from some good teachers on a specific
subject, it is
worth looking
here. <<http://bookmark.reading.org/archives/rteacher.html>>
- Teach your child to read with phonics <<http://www.catphonics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/>> ...
This site is about one of the best books you
can find on teaching reading. The author, Mona
McNee, is a leader
and pacesetter
in
the
movement
back to phonics. Much of the basic information
in "9,000
Phonetic Words" is based on her teaching methods.
- Teaching
Children How To Read -- National Reading
Panel
- "Teaching Reading: A
History" by Robert McCole Wilson / a very good, non-biased presentation http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/teaching_reading.htm
- Testing / Fair Test: The National
Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to
end
the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that
evaluation of
students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally
beneficial. http://www.fairtest.org/
- "Theory of Relativity" in
1-, 2-, 3- and 4-letter words ... second grade kids should
be able to read
this. Really understanding it is a another
matter.
- Unifon alphabet / << http://www.unifon.org/unifon%20alphabet.htm >> / The
letters in the UNIFON alphabet correspond to one
and only one sound.
- "Up" is a very friendly
word
- Vocabulary: All sorts of good information
about vocabulary.
<<http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/papers/cup.html >>
The following question is typical
of the questions it intelligently answers.
What vocabulary does a language learner need?
By Paul Nation and Robert
Waring.
- Vocabulary (with definitions) of 1,500 Special English
Words. Developed
by The Voice Of America
(VOA) -- archived on this site in one run-on list
- Vocabulary, listening: Often overlooked -- a precursor to reading
fluency?
- Voice Of America: Special English
word list. <<
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/wordbook-a.cfm >>
1,500 words in alphabetical groups.
- Vowel duos: All
the 4-letter words that contain vowel duos
- Waring, Robert -- Vocabulary: All
sorts of good information about vocabulary.
<<http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/papers/cup.html >> The
following question is
typical of the questions it intelligently answers.
What vocabulary does a language learner
need? By Paul Nation and Robert
Waring
- Webster, Noah, "The American Speller" : Referenced
in this report on "Reading Wars"
- "Why Children Can't Read" by Dianne McGuiness: Referenced
in this report on "Reading Wars"
- What Works Clearinghouse: << http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/ >>
The What Works Clearinghouse
(WWC) collects, screens, and identifies studies
of effectiveness
of educational interventions
(programs, products, practices,
and policies in the interest of the U.S. Department of Education's
Institute
of Education Sciences (IES) ).Read one teacher's
reaction to a part of the website:
http://www.9000phoneticwords/debbiereese.html
- Wilson, Robert McCole:
author "Teaching
Reading: A
History"
- Word frequency and letter frequency ... Statistics
on the subject.
<<http://deafandblind.com/word_frequency.htm>>
- Words listed by frequency: the first 2000 most frequent words from the
Brown Corpus (1,015,945 words).
<<.http://www.edict.com.hk/lexiconindex/frequencylists/words2000.htm
>>
- Word fun: << http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/fun.html >>
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