First 50 of the 214

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.

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.
	Volume	Page		Volume	Page
1. I	-	-	26. day	3	301
2. a	-	-	27. that	1	131
3. is	1	138	28. into	3	312
4. in	1	123	29. today	3	301
5. you	3	317	30. like	3	329
6. he	3	304	31. yes	1	157
7. the	3	304	32. all	1	147
8. out	4	431	33. dog	1	114
9. good	4	404	34. hat	1	131
10. it	1	133	35. and	2	227
11. me	3	304	36. big	1	113
12. old	2	241	37. ice	3	344
13.one	3	340	38. look	4	409
14. see	3	305	39. year	5	531
15. she	3	304	40. boy	3	303
16.time	3	333	41. but	1	135
17. ten	1	122	42. air	5	531
18. up	1	130	43. how	3	318
19. book	4	409	44. over	6	670
20. come	3	334	45. can	1	121
21. get	1	132	46. did	1	108
22. go	3	309	47. looking	4	409
23. love	3	326	48. men	1	122
24. we	3	304	49. red	1	107
25. car	5	501	50. at	1	131

If you are interested in knowing what percentage of students in any grade from 2nd through 8th 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. This is based on the latest complete research study on spelling.

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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