The English language changes and evolves over time and an update to the 90 year old Dolch list is long overdue. Like the West’s 1953 General Service List (GSL), which was replaced by the New General Service List (2013, Browne, Culligan and Phillips), the Dolch 1936 list has often been criticized for being based on outdated resources. The list is divided according to the grades in which it was intended that children would memorize these words.Ī wordlist is only as good as the corpus it is based on.
Although most of the 220 Dolch words are phonetic, children are sometimes told that they can't be "sounded out" using common sound-to-letter implicit phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight hence the alternative term, "sight word". Though dated, the Dolch lists are still widely assigned for memorization in American elementary schools and used in ESL and EFL settings and materials around the world. It has been argued that between 50% and 75% of all words used in schoolbooks, library books, newspapers, and magazines are a part of the Dolch basic sight word vocabulary. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list. The list contains 220 "sight words" that have to be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency in the English language.
Dolch based the list on several criteria including a corpus of children's books of his era, which is why nouns such as "kitty" and "Santa Claus" appear on the list instead of more high-frequency words. The list was first published in a journal article in 1936 and then published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. The original Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words compiled by Edward William Dolch. Brent Culligan (2020) with the goal of creating a reliable and valid corpus-based list of high frequency English words important for young second language learners to be able to successfully interact with EFL learning materials, other EFL learners, as well as popular children’s TV shows and children’s picture books. The New Dolch List, (NDL) was developed by Dr.
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