Abstract
This study examined (1) the percentage of agreement between high-frequency word lists used for developing sight reading vocabularies and (2) whether a list of words common to a majority of six high-frequency word lists accounts for a high percentage of the words found in the preprimer through second grade levels of five popular basal reading series. Six high-frequency word lists used to develop the reading sight vocabularies of beginning readers were selected. Of the 501 different words contained on these six word lists 202 words appeared on four or more of the lists. These 202 words accounted for 63.7% to 75.6% of the total words used in the preprimer through the second grade levels of five popular basal reading series.
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