The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the word list for the 1970's accounted for a statistically greater proportion of words in written materials for children and adults than the Dolch list. The American Heritage Intermediate Corpus and the Kucera‐Francis Corpus were used for the comparisons. The results revealed that the word list for the 1970's accounted for a significantly greater proportion of words than the Dolch list in materials intended for both children and adults. The practical significance of the results was discussed and comments were presented to stimulate a careful examination of why word lists are developed. Questions were also presented to focus more directly on the role of word lists in developing efficient and effective readers.
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