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The Basic Spelling Vocabulary List

By: Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, Connie Loynachan

This list was created to help teachers know which spelling words should be taught to kids in grades 1–5. The list contains 850 words that account for 80 percent of the words children use in their writing — the ones they need to be able to spell correctly.

This list was devised to help educators know which spelling words should be taught to children. The list contains 850 words that account for 80 percent of the words children use in their writing — the ones they need to be able to spell correctly.

Mastering this relatively small corpus of words yields a high rate of return. For example, the most common 1,000 words are used 13 times more frequently than the next most common 1,000 words. It also provides teachers flexibility in planning spelling instruction, providing an opportunity to give children the "basics" while supplementing with other spelling words germane to classroom activities.

Grade level for each word was determined based upon difficulty, pattern of occurrence in children's writing across grades, and grade placement on current vocabulary lists and spelling materials.

Words that children have difficulty spelling correctly are marked with an asterisk.

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Graham, S. , Harris, K.R. and Loynachan, C. (1993). The Basic Spelling Vocabulary List. Journal of Educational Research 86(6) 363-368.

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Spelling Learning Food Phonics Words for Kids

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Are you looking for a free spelling game for your little one?
Thesis writing game for kids is to write English words of different types of fruits, vegetables and teach to read, write, spell and pronounce words for 3 year old kindergarten. Kids Learning Spelling Educational game includes basic English words of different foods, vegetables, fruits, cold drinks, fast food, grains, juices, etc. These children's spelling books are specially produced for toddlers 3,4,5,6 Years old, preschoolers and Kindergarten children, in order to improve English proficiency and awareness of different type of foods with picture and sound, 1st and 3rd grade students learn to recognize foods (fruits, vegetables) in different countries in this spelling school.

Children can easily learn to write down and memorize common food words such as apple, banana, beetroot, berry, lollipop, cherry, cake, egg, ice cream, jelly, mango, lemon, pumpkin, etc. To train children's brain and memory to remember the spelling of animals.
Help your kids practice outside of the classroom with this free educational game by looking at the spelling and its visualized picture and sound sounds, children easily memorize English words with pleasure.

Children. Spelling. The practice of eating food and vegetables is the best game for first, second and third grade kids to learn English alphabets, phonetics pronunciation with Montessori learning method by matching alphabets of words. This game increases the difficulty according to your age and knowledge of the child, so that any age of the child can learn the spelling dictionary with pleasure.

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-Download and install Easy Spelling word Explore the products and press the play button, and start with a simple word.
- identify the word from vegetables or fruits, drag the letters to the correct place to complete the word.
-if then press the help button to find the correct placement of the alphabet letter to find the correct placement of the letters.
- When a word is completed, its associated animal image will show to improve the visual recognition reason that children will learn faster.
- on a successful word match, a word spelled out by the sound of each letter of the word and its pronunciation.

Your child will love the large and colorful animated food images that illustrate the meaning of the word and he will spend endless hours with this game.
Learn new English spelling words and improve kids vocabulary in Spelling Bee Educational game for kids.

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* Practice popular and simple words for writing fruits and vegetables
* Memorize English words faster with your associated pictures
* Learn to write and read words for 5 year olds
* Spelling games for 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4-5 year olds
* Speak each word and letter
* Improve English dictionary and become a spelling master
* More than 110 words for animals
* Words like: fruits, vegetables, juices, dairy, nuts and cereals
* Spell words with animated food items, vegetables, fruits, etc.
* Learn letters of alphabets and numbers
* Simple and clear interface for kids.
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Russian schoolchildren have been learning spelling and punctuation for nine years. In many other countries, children are acquiring literacy faster. Why? Is Russian spelling particularly difficult?

Our spelling is no more complicated than English or French spelling. It seems to me that this does not even require any special explanation: everyone understands that English or French spelling is based on the so-called "traditional principle", when the word is written as it was written many centuries before. The task of the student is to remember the appearance of the word, sometimes quite separate from how the word sounds. There is a famous saying on this subject: "In English it is written Manchester, but Liverpool is read." It quite reflects the real state of affairs.

Then why do Russian schools pay so much attention to spelling?

I have a hypothesis. In the tradition of European schools, it is not customary to separate the teaching of language and literature very strongly, there is a common literature. And we teach Russian separately. What kind of subject is "literature"? These are texts - for example, Natasha Rostova is dancing at the first ball - they must be read and understood. What then remains for language lessons? Well, spelling, of course. They compose in literature lessons, they study the basics of spelling in Russian lessons. Plus, of course, subjects, predicates and other theory are taught in these lessons, which, for example, are almost never studied in American schools.

A literate person is a person who has learned the rules and strictly obeys them. Has it always been like this in Russia?

Of course, the Bolsheviks played a big role here, their ideas that people should strictly follow a certain set of rules. For example, the well-known word "coffee". If we look at how it was used at the beginning of the 20th century, we will see that the neuter gender was quite acceptable, and Russian writers used it. If we search, we will find in Bunin and Nabokov hesitations with the genus "coffee" - it was the Bolsheviks who introduced strictness. There is a famous story about how a Soviet spy once made a mistake somewhere in England because he put punctuation marks too carefully.

Are Russian punctuation also strictly subject to rules?

Our punctuation is more variable. Say, in a sentence, you can put a comma, or you can put a semicolon. I always tell schoolchildren: if you are introduced as an error with a comma instead of a semicolon, appeal, this is generally unfair. In punctuation, there is no rigid set of rules at all now: the system operates not so much according to laws, but according to precedents. It is clearly seen, for example, that the dash replaces the colon. So the diligence with which children at school are taught to put the "correct" punctuation marks, of course, is amazing.

Has anyone tried to change Russian spelling?

The most famous cases are the Petrine reform and the reform of the Bolsheviks. As you can see, abrupt changes in spelling are almost always associated with a revolution in the public mind. Peter fought with the church component, he wanted to make the language more secular. He made and approved a new alphabet. First of all, the Greek letters were eliminated: "psi", "ksi", "izhitsa". But “and decimal” (it looks like i, but with two dots) Peter left, and it’s clear why: it looks like a Latin letter. In general, it was important for Peter to Latinize spelling in order to get closer to Europe and move away from the original component of the language. True, he paid attention not to spelling, but to what we call graphics - letter composition, the alphabet.

And what was the reform of the Bolsheviks?

It took a very long time to approach this reform. Society had a need to make education more accessible through such changes. The conversations have been going on since the 1860s: commissions were created, proposals were made, but the society regularly rejected them, at least the authoritative members of the society. There is a famous interview with Leo Tolstoy in which he was asked if it would be good to remove all the letters “er” from the ends of words. Tolstoy protested terribly: he said that it would be terrible, that when he begins to read a word, he is already looking for its end with his eyes, so “er” for him is a support, without which reading will become more difficult. Each time, the enlightened strata of society showed strong resistance to the reform. And the Bolsheviks simply spat on the opinion of the people. They sent revolutionary sailors who in one night went around all the printing establishments and took out "eras", "fits" and "yats" from the typesetting cash desks. True, they overdid it with “er”: “er” looks like a modern solid sign and happens not only at the end of words, but also in words like “entrance”. So for some time the texts had to be printed with apostrophes. Then they came to their senses and returned the solid sign back. I think that for the Bolsheviks in the reform, it was not the educational, but the symbolic aspect that was important: the revolution destroys everything old to the ground, erects everything new. The months were also renamed during the French Revolution.

Were there attempts to reform spelling in the Soviet Union?

Yes, there were reforms in 1956 and 1964. Both of them failed successfully. In 1964, the members of the Spelling Commission, headed by linguists V. Vinogradov and M. Panov, having already learned from the bitter experience of their predecessors, decided, in order not to outrage the people in advance, to prepare a whole bill and put it forward for discussion in finished form. But the project was leaked to the press, and the society exploded. Apparently, the conclusion is this: in the absence of bloody revolutions and harsh dictatorships, society will retain the traditional spelling. And there is some higher wisdom in this.

Why doesn't society accept spelling changes?

For us, the old spelling is a connection with the old texts. Now a huge number of readers will be horrified when they open a book printed before 1917. If the book is not republished in a new spelling, no one will be able to read it, it will be forgotten. Therefore, the fact that the English "spel Manchester and read Liverpool" has a great advantage: it is much easier for them than for us to read the works of Shakespeare's era.

Shouldn't the rules of the Russian language be simplified? Bring our writing closer to spoken language?

Language is not "easier" or "harder". It always consists of three parts: the old part, which has not yet died out; neutral - the one that is the norm at the moment; and vernacular, the cutting edge of the language, all these "rings" or "cake". Initially, vernacular is rejected and cursed by everyone, but the language very often moves precisely in its direction. So, vernacular should be treated with great respect - this is the vanguard of the development of the language, it outlines different development paths, and some of these paths then inevitably become tortuous roads. I have a teenage daughter, and there are words and phrases in her speech that I do not like. Well, for example, if I heard from her “he told me what”, such anguish would appear on my face ... But it is clear to me that at some point this construction may become “normal”. Should we therefore change the current rules, bring the modern norm closer to the vernacular? The great Dmitry Ushakov, the author of a very good, bright explanatory dictionary, once said that scientists never need to “run ahead of the locomotive” and legitimize the phenomena that they observe in living speech. Because you can easily miss it. What if the path that has just opened up turns out to be not a torn road, but just an overgrown path? Therefore, compilers of dictionaries should “lag behind” events a bit and recognize as legal only what has already become de facto.

Who sets the language norms, sets the rules? Dictionary authors?

Yes. The norms are set by a narrow circle of influential people: if they decide that the “euro” is masculine, then it will be masculine. Now there is a very strong, bloody rationing - these are deuces at school. Or rather, an exam, the Unified State Examination in Russian, on which admission and a career depend. When half of your life is ruined because of the word “coffee”, the rules immediately take on a huge meaning.

Very little is said about the history of the Russian language at school. Maybe it's worth telling the children in more detail about Cyril and Methodius, for example?

It would be good, for example, to say that Cyril and Methodius have nothing to do with the Russian language - they have never seen the Eastern Slavs. They were very talented linguists who invented the alphabet, writing in order to adapt Greek texts for the Slavs. Their history is a religious, missionary history. The fact is that the cunning Byzantines followed a very correct path: they spread their own religion, but allowed rituals to be performed in the language of the area where they tried to infiltrate. My own love is Cyrillic and Glagolitic, I would tell the guys about them. For example, that Cyril - you will laugh! - invented not the Cyrillic alphabet, but the Glagolitic alphabet. That the Cyrillic alphabet is connected with the Greek alphabet and numbering: it can be explained why “a” is 1, “b” is nothing, and “c” is 2. There are photographs of Glagolitic monuments on the net, they can be read, they can be translated. It is very exciting.

Maybe you should read more old texts at school? Lomonosov, for example?

I see from schoolchildren I know that children read some old authors with great pleasure: they love the heroes of Dostoevsky, Pechorin. But reading Lomonosov or The Tale of the Regiment with them simply does not make sense. There are works that do not work at school at all. This means that teachers need to listen to life, and not to their great theory.

How then to instill in a child a love for the language of the classics?

I would think more about traveling in depth than in breadth. Let's say, to dwell on Pushkin's texts for a long time - after all, they are very heterogeneous. The Russian literary language began with "Eugene Onegin", this was a very advanced work for Pushkin's times. And some “Station Master” is a very archaic work in terms of language. There is such an important phrase for philologists as “slow reading”. This is when we do not “go through Dostoevsky in October”, but parse the text we read word by word. As a historian of language, I am very happy when people read slowly. At the same time, of course, I am in favor of each teacher doing what is interesting to him, I am against the general program. If something captures you, then you can capture students with that.

Does the language of the classics need to be “deciphered”?

Last year I told schoolchildren about famous texts of the 19th century: there are many words in them that seem modern to children, the guys think they understand them perfectly. But in fact, these words had a completely different meaning at that time. For example, in The Captain's Daughter, when he leaves, the driver says: "Master, you don't have to go now, the time is unreliable." I ask the guys: “How do you understand this “unreliable time”?” They answer: “Well, we left a little late, we may not be in time.” And Pushkin's "time" is the weather. And the coachman wants to say that the haze is rising, a snowstorm is starting. Or another vivid example, already from the 20th century: my daughter loves Brodsky very much, she learns him by heart. At some point, her favorite poem was "Don't leave the room...". And now she reads with rapture: "... Do not call the motor!", And I ask her if she understands what this means. “Well, don’t get active,” she replies. But the old meaning of the word "motor" - "taxi" - she does not know.

You like it when books are read slowly. How do you feel about abbreviation?

When you study antiquity, you look at the line, at the big neat letters, it seems that people used to have a different sense of time. They lived within time and were in no rush at all. I think speed reading is a bit of a game with fire. We do not know how speed reading affects the body. Of course, there are techniques that allow you to memorize quickly, but what internal resources does a person use?

I observe schoolchildren at the All-Russian Olympiad in the Russian language. Sometimes bright-minded children win in it, but the vast majority are people who, for the 11th grade, were dumped with a huge amount of information in order to win. There are special places that specialize in training, where everything is fast, fast: “we sleep 4 hours a day, in a few months we learn the Old Russian language, we know how to arrange the positions of the reduced ones.” And, of course, thanks to such tension, children win. But what is the meaning of this knowledge? A young man comes to the first year and does not study for the first six months, because he knows much more than everyone else. And then it turns out that during this time he has formed large gaps. Or he simply loses interest because it seems to him that the information is repeated. And why such a "short reading" was necessary - I do not understand.

Olympiads in the Russian language often include tasks for translating Old Russian texts. Is studying Old Russian at school useful?

I don't like these tasks. When the compilers of the Olympiad do tasks using Old Russian, Polish or other languages, they, of course, remember that there was such a great linguist A. A. Zaliznyak, who, in fact, invented them. But Zaliznyak's key word has always been "self-sufficiency." These were tasks for those who do not know the language, but can calculate linguistic patterns. The All-Russian Olympiad in Russian is completely different.

And for the school, in order to study Old Russian texts, you will have to invent another subject. Because in order to read, you need to know the alphabet, the rules of reading, all the grammar. Old Russian is, of course, the Russian language, but its grammar was completely different. Of course, it's great to learn it at school, but only as an elective.

Many parents get upset when they hear Americanisms in their children's speech. It seems to them that the Russian language is "clogged" and "may die." This is true? Can the Russian language really get worse?

Languages ​​have always interacted with each other; if technical progress is moving from America to us, then there will be Americanisms in the Russian language. It is impossible to fight borrowings, just as it is impossible to fight grass that grows through asphalt. I take borrowings calmly, it is interesting to record them. The language processes each borrowed word, and it begins to decline, conjugate, pronounce with the phonetics of our language - this is an inevitable process. It's ridiculous to be afraid for the Russian language. Why should Americanisms be horrified when we have an infinite number of borrowings even without them. Slavic roots, of course, also exist, but there are huge quantities of both Gothic and Turkic. In the XVIII century, French words were actively borrowed, in the second half of the XIX century - English. What you need to be afraid of is the small languages ​​on the territory of Russia. Here they dissolve and disappear. And of course, it is necessary to protect the "extractions" of the Russian language, which are spoken outside of Russia. For example, the Russian language spoken in Baku is quite special. Such a funny example: instead of the word “eggplant”, Russian-speaking Azerbaijanis say “demyan”, because eggplants ripen by the day of St. Demyan (most likely, this word came from the southern dialects of the Russian language). In Baku, there are city taxis painted in eggplant color. So in the city everyone says “let's go eggplant”, and the locals have a special expression - “let's go demyanochka”.

What should parents do when they hear slang from their child? Fix? Asking to "say it's okay"?

In my opinion, this is a very funny question from the category “what should parents do if their child’s room is not cleaned?” Each family has its own rules - someone will correct, someone will not pay attention.

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