Vocabulary of Core Reading Programs

The word lists created for “The Vocabulary of Core Reading Programs” (Graves, Elmore, and Fitzgerald) are available for non-commercial use. To learn more about the lists and how they were created, read The Elementary School Journal article.

These word lists include:

Types in the Programs: A list of all the types (individual word forms) in the programs ordered by frequency. It shows the frequency of each type by grade level and for all six grade levels.
Level 1 Word Families in the Programs: A list of all the Level 1 word families in the programs ordered by family frequency. It shows the frequency of each word family by grade level and for all six grade levels.
Frequent Word Families: A list of the Level 1 word families in the programs that are also on The First 4,000 Words list, ordered from the most frequent family to the least frequent family.
General Utility Word Families: A list of the Level 1 word families in the programs that have been identified as general utility families, ordered from the most frequent family to the least frequent family.
Challenging General-Utility Word Families: A set of six lists, each of which lists Level 1 word families identified as both challenging and general-utility at one of the six grade levels in the programs. The families in each list are alphabetically ordered.

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