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29 January 2013
Article
A list of 343 words that appear on both AWL list developed by Coxhead (2000) and the 4,000 Simple Word Families.
29 January 2013
Article
A list of 68 animal-related words that appears in the 4,000 Simple Word Families.
22 January 2013
Article
This list illustrates the multiple uses of words in the core vocabulary, especially the most frequent 100 words in written English. What these many uses mean for reading development is explained at the TextProject Topics page for Core Vocabulary.
14 August 2012
Resource
We have renamed a version of our popular WordZones™ for 5,586 words list to WordZones™ for 4,000 Simple Word Families. The list has not changed. Only the name has been changed to highlight the number of word families the 5,586 most frequent words have been sorted into.