codedsightwords The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the whole-word method of beginning reading instruction. The list was prepared in 1936 and was originally published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. It is understandable, as phonics does limit children because it only goes so far. There are only around 200 - 250 Speech Sound Pics that represent EVERY word in the English language (other than two words) but think of how many millions of words. So phonics tries to link speech sounds and their representations (sound pics) but most only ever introduce a fraction of the Sound Pics we use when reading and spelling. Why? Two or three years ago I tried to ask the Jolly Phonic creators/ publishers to please include in their teaching materials the tools to and resources teach children the whole code, or at least half. Many teachers I visited actually only thought there were 42, because that was all they were shown in the Phonics Handbook (attached). They thought the list shown was all they needed to teach so that the children could use phonics. Teachers were not being told how to teach the other 3/4 of the code, and so children were entering year 1 and 2 still learning to read and spell. They have now added more, but it is still too limiting, as you will see if you look at the whole code, shown within the Spelling Clouds. 90 Speech Sound Pics are taught directly/ systematically through the 4 Code Levels, but the others are explored and discovered daily, through the clouds (so usually at the time the child needs to discover it as meaningful to them) So in their Prep year they have explored the WHOLE code while using SSP, and CAN sound out any word. In Year 1 you consolidate. NO child enters Year 2 still learning to read or spell. NO learning to read or learning to spell programs needed. In Year 2 you focus on literacy teaching. Dolch compiled the list based on childrens books of his era, which is why nouns such as kitty and Santa Claus appear on the list instead of more high-frequency words. The list contains 220 service words that help children more quickly achieve reading fluency in the English language. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list. Between 50% and 75% of all words used in schoolbooks, library books, newspapers, and magazines are a part of the Dolch basic sight word vocabulary. Although most of the 220 Dolch words are phonetic, children are sometimes told that they cant be sounded out as teachers receive poor or limited training in phonics. They have been told/ taught that if not a really common sound-to-letter pattern then they have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, sight word. Jolly Phonics, for example, has been calling these Tricky Words for over two decades. They are only tricky if the teachers have had limited training with regards to the speech to speech sound pic links ie coding, and if the belief is that the 42 main speech sounds they focus on can only be represented in 1-3 ways. Yes, that does make life very tricky for children. I have attached a comparison. When you use SSP, there is nothing tricky and we dont limit children. Do not allow a program to set limits on children. So DO teach them the most commonly used sound pics (see the 90 taught in the 4 code levels) and also allow them to access all of the others from day 1. Do not ask children to learn ANY words using Look, Cover, Say, Write. Change your tools. (Hammer teaching) All of the following will be coded for fast mapping in the teacher site, by Tuesday - as a video you can put on in the classroom if being asked to use Dolch words. Just put it on and let me wire those brains for all of the following words in weeks, not terms. Dolch list: Non-nouns a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, giving, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, dont, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm Dolch list: Nouns apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, good-bye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, wood Em
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 02:59:26 +0000
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