Month: March 2022

Words matter. Even the little ones, like Dolch words. I saw a word the other day that got me thinking.  It was a Dolch word, the type of word that used to fly by when I read, back in the day when I used to be able to do that.  Now nothing flies by when I'm reading. I read one word at a time, which is an…

Here is a peek inside my mind. I am learning my Dolch words.  Well, I am trying to do that anyway. I didn't even know what they were before.  They are sight words. Named after Dr. Edward William Dolch who developed the list by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books. They consist of 80% of the words in children's books, and 50% of the…