#dolch words

[picturebookshelf]

Once There Was An Elephant (1961)

Story: Edward W. Dolch and Marguerite P. Dolch -- Art: William Moyers

[unscramblerer]

List of 220 Dolch Sight Words

[booksandpublishing]

The Dolch Project aims to gather stories written for children with learning disability, using only a limited library of words – the Dolch list.

More than a million children around the globe suffer from learning disability. Unlike you or me, they can't enjoy the pleasure of reading a book. That's because unlike you and me, they don't 'read' words - they see them as objects. Most schools that teach children with learning disability use 'sight words' - words that are learned visually, as opposed to phonetically. As you can imagine, there's hardly any literature available for these kids since they can't recognize 80% of the words in a book. The Dolch Project aims to create short stories for these young kids, by inviting authors from around the world. The only challenge is - they'll have to write a story using the words available in the Dolch Library. You can find the list of words here.

How thoughtful. Find attached the list of Dolch words..

[curiousmittenkitten]

Sugar is a weird word. 

Normally, in English, you have a "sh" in words to make the "shh" sound.  But in sugar, there is no "sh." 

It looks like it should be pronounced "soogarrr" but it's actually pronounced "shuhger."

Which is also why, in education, sugar is considered a Dolch word, or "sight word."  Dolch words are words that do not follow the rules of Phonetics and cannot be sounded out by students according to those rules.