I saw the fly fly by. Then, I saw him fly away from me. For Teachers and Parents All of the pre-primer through first grade Dolch words are used. The shortest poem has 30 words and the longest story has 140 words. Remedial use is enhanced because ages of the children are neither shown by text nor pictures.
Pictures often lead to lucky guesses.
Dolch words need to be recognized instantly without depending on pictures for cues. Many of these words can not be sounded out, e.g. is sounds like iz . Dolch identified 220 words for reading levels from pre-primer through third grade. He also identified 95 of the most commonly used nouns . The Dolch lists are on the Learning Abilities Books web site.