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Good Words for the Young was a 19th-century six penny monthly periodical [1] established in Scotland in 1869 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan [2] that was specifically for children. [3] Its first editor was Norman Macleod .
Good Words was a 19th-century monthly periodical established in Scotland in 1860 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan. [1] Its first editor was Norman Macleod . After his death in 1872, it was edited by his brother, Donald Macleod, [ 2 ] though there is some evidence that the publishing was taken over at that time by W. Isbister & Co. [ 3 ]
Dolch compiled the list based on children's books of his era, which is why nouns such as "kitty" and "Santa Claus" appear on the list instead of more current high-frequency words. The list contains 220 "service words" that Dolch thought should be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency in the English language.
Sight words account for a large percentage (up to 75%) of the words used in beginning children's print materials. [6] [7] The advantage for children being able to recognize sight words automatically is that a beginning reader will be able to identify the majority of words in a beginning text before they even attempt to read it; therefore, allowing the child to concentrate on meaning and ...
Children playing Simon Says with "Simon" (the controller) in the foreground. Simon Says is a children's game for three or more players. One player takes the role of "Simon" and issues instructions (usually physical actions such as "jump in the air" or "stick out your tongue") to the other players, which should be followed only when succeeding the phrase "Simon says".
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SOS Children did not have permission to use the Wikipedia puzzle-globe logo in the 2006 version. However, when the Wikimedia Foundation endorsed the project roughly one year later, the puzzle-globe was adopted for the 2007 edition as well as the 2008/9 release. The 2013 version uses a new logo designed by SOS Children.
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]