The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words.
The Dolch high frequency list was published by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. in his book, Problems in Reading. It consists of 220 words, excluding nouns.
The reading of this list does not make a learner a reader but solidifies that a reader knows sight words and is often used as a testing tool.
Because the words are “service” words (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs) they can’t all be learned through the used of pictures and must be memorized with activities like flashcards and word walls.  Additionally, because they are commonly one …read more