How Many Words Are There in Printed School English?

The Teacher's Word Book of 30, 000 Words

2018 • 2,687 citations

The Child's Learning of English Morphology

1958 • 2,279 citations

The American Heritage Word Frequency Book

1973 • 1,376 citations

Certain Language Skills in Children

1957 • 830 citations

Effects of long-term vocabulary instruction on lexical access and reading comprehension.

1982 • 699 citations

Certain language skills in children : their development and interrelationships.

1957 • 511 citations

The Effects of Long-Term Vocabulary Instruction on Reading Comprehension: A Replication

1983 • 322 citations

Estimating the Size of Vocabularies of Children and Adults

1963 • 94 citations

Effects on Text Comprehension of Differing Proportions and Locations of Difficult Vocabulary

1983 • 82 citations

The measurement of individual differences in general English vocabularies.

1940 • 73 citations

Vocabulary and reading comprehension : instructional effects

1978 • 73 citations

Techniques of teaching vocabulary

1971 • 70 citations

Measurement of the size of general English vocabulary through the elementary grades and high school

1941 • 68 citations

Vocabulary development in the classroom

1964 • 58 citations

The Teaching of English Suffixes

1942 • 36 citations

A Study of Prefixes in the Thorndike List to Establish a List of Prefixes that should be Taught in the Elementary School

1942 • 34 citations

Statistical Study of English Word Formation

1956 • 31 citations

A critique of the common method of estimating vocabulary size, together with some data on the absolute word knowledge of educated adults.

1941 • 25 citations

A Developmental Analysis of the Acquisition of Compound Words

1977 • 9 citations