As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

This study compares the frequency of occurrence of the words on the Dolch sight word list and the first 220 words on the Great Atlantic and Pacific sight word list (A & P) in the vocabularies of four ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...