If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...

researchers in the United Kingdom, found that two curricula—one that taught phonics, and another that taught phonics and memorization of high-frequency words—were equally effective at teaching ...

Pagel says the team found that they were used at similar rates across the board even if the words with the same meaning were not cognates. "The high frequency words in Spanish are the same as the ...