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2. Dolch word list - Wikipedia

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   These lists of words are still assigned for memorization in elementary schools in America and elsewhere. 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 phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, "sight word".

3. Sight word - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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   This Is the House That Jack Built 'The House That Jack Built' Great Britain 1755 [106] Included in Nurse Truelove's New-Year's-Gift, or the Book of Books for Children, printed in London in 1755. This Old Man: Several other titles... [h] United Kingdom 1906 [107] The origins of this song are obscure and possibly very old.

5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

6. Whole language - Wikipedia

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   Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited [8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children. The method became a major model for education in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, [7] despite there being no scientific support for the method's effectiveness. [9]

7. California land to be returned to Yurok Tribe - AOL

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   The Yurok word for salmon even translates to "that which we eat." But the salmon population has dwindled to about one-quarter of what it was 20 years ago, according to a coalition of state and ...

8. Two Little Dickie Birds - Wikipedia

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   The adult, out of sight of the child, will mark in some conspicuous way the nail of the index finger of one hand and the nail of the second finger of the other hand. Both hands are then shown to the child as fists (folded fingers downwards) with the two fingers with marked nails pointing forward – these represent Peter and Paul.

9. This Is the House That Jack Built - Wikipedia

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   The 1996 TV series Profiler is about the investigation of a serial killer nicknamed "Jack of All Trades"; the title of the 13th episode is "The House that Jack Built". The rhyme is referenced in Roots by the character Tom Lea, during a scene in which Kizzy Kinte, daughter of main character Kunta Kinte, is molested.