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Dolch Words

iOS Universal

★ Make reading fun and engaging for your child! ★
★ The Dolch Words App helps your child read and understand basic, building-block words! ★

Research shows that children of all ages learn best when there is an activity involved. The Dolch Words app presents all 220 words from the Dolch Words List sorted by grades.

The app breaks apart words and encourages your child to put the letters in place to form the correct word – encouraging her to learn and recognize words with the help of hints and assistance.

Dolch Words goes even further and tracks each and every word learnt and the progress made. After every five words that are learnt, an easy to solve test pops up for one of the learnt words, which reinforces the familiarity with the words learnt.
The Dolch Words App will enable your child to recognize the high frequency words and make them proficient and fluent readers with a love for reading.

★ FEATURES ★
✔ Interact and play with words instead of just reading.
✔ Contains all 220 Dolch Words + 90 Sight Words.
✔ Progress tracking on what words are done and what remains.
✔ Clear and crisp verbal pronunciations for all alphabet and word sounds.

★ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ★

Q. What are Dolch Words?
The Dolch Word List is a list of frequently used words compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD. The list was prepared in 1936. The list was originally published in his book: Problems in Reading in 1948.

Dolch compiled the list based on children’s books of his era. The list contains 220 "service words" that have to be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency in English. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprises of a separate 95-word list (also included in the app).

Q. What are Sight Words?
Many of the 220 Dolch words can’t be “sounded out” using common sound-to-letter implicit phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, “sight word." Although the list is divided into grades, for native English speakers, all the words in the Dolch Word List should be mastered by the end of 1st grade.