Johnson's Basic Vocabulary: Words for Grades 1 and 2

longer occur very often in print. In a subsequent paper, a basic vocabulary for beginning reading was presented (3). The list contained 306 words that are of high frequency both in printed English and in the oral-aural vocabularies of young children. A later report examined the occurrence of these 306 words in ten widely used basal reading series (4). All 306 words were found in at least one of the series, and nearly 90 per cent of the words occurred in more than half of the series. To