Why are spelling words taught in the order of use frequency?
Dr. Leonard Ayers ferreted out the one-thousand words in most common use in the everyday world and by numerous tests has arranged these in the order of increasing difficulty, marking off the points at which each successive grade could use the spelling word list. Teaching the Extended Ayers Spelling Word List of the 1000 (plus derivatives) of the most commonly used words taught in the order of use frequency, explains most of the spelling problems in the English language in words that we use most often.The spelling words are the building blocks of the language. The first 100 spelling words make up 30% of all that we read and write. The student needs to learn to write these words without needing to pause, analyze or think. In order for the beginning student to learn to construct literate English sentences they must learn spelling words in order of use frequency; not only words in categories or of the letters/phonograms being taught. From the beginning the students construct oral and writt
