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The First 50 of the 214 Easiest Words to
Learn
in Exact Statistical Order
with page references to
The Patterns of English Spelling
and the New
Word Families in Sentence Context
where more words sharing the same rime
(or the same word family) can be found.
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Words
1-25 |
Volume & Page in The
Patterns of English
Spelling
Where More Words Sharing
the Rime Can be found. |
Words
26-50 |
Volume & Page in The
Patterns of English
Spelling
Where More Words Sharing
the Rime Can be found. |
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Volume |
Page
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Volume |
Page |
|
I |
- |
- |
day |
3 |
301 |
|
a |
- |
- |
that |
1 |
131 |
|
is |
1 |
138 |
into |
3 |
312 |
|
in |
1 |
123 |
today |
3 |
301 |
|
you |
3 |
317 |
like |
3 |
329 |
|
he |
3 |
304 |
yes |
1 |
157 |
|
the |
3 |
304 |
all |
1 |
147 |
|
out |
4 |
431 |
dog |
1 |
114 |
|
good |
4 |
404 |
hat |
1 |
131 |
|
it |
1 |
133 |
and |
2 |
227 |
|
me |
3 |
304 |
big |
1 |
113 |
|
old |
2 |
241 |
ice |
3 |
344 |
|
one |
3 |
340 |
look |
4 |
409 |
|
see |
3 |
305 |
year |
5 |
531 |
|
she |
3 |
304 |
boy |
3 |
303 |
|
time |
3 |
333 |
but |
1 |
135 |
|
ten |
1 |
122 |
air |
5 |
531 |
|
up |
1 |
130 |
how |
3 |
318 |
|
book |
4 |
409 |
over |
6 |
670 |
|
come |
3 |
334 |
can |
1 |
121 |
|
get |
1 |
132 |
did |
1 |
108 |
|
go |
3 |
309 |
looking |
4 |
409 |
|
love |
3 |
326 |
men |
1 |
122 |
|
we |
3 |
304 |
red |
1 |
107 |
|
car |
5 |
501 |
at |
1 |
131 |
If you are
interested in knowing what
percentage of students can spell
these words or any of the over
5,000 words used in the New
Iowa Spelling Scale that
was used to determine the
ranking of these words, you can
look them up in
The
Reading Teacher's List of Over
5,000 Basic Spelling Words.
- All
the words are in both
alphabetical order and in
the order of difficulty.
- You
can look up any of these
words and find all the other
words that share the same
level of difficulty.
The
complete listing of the 214
Easiest Words to Learn in Exact
Statistical Order can be found
in
The Patterns of English Spelling
and in
The
Teaching of Reading: A
Continuum from Kindergarten
through College. |
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