Datasets:

nltk-data-hub
/

dolch

configs:
  - config_name: dolch
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-adjectives
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-adjectives/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-nouns
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-nouns/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-verbs
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-verbs/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-adverbs
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-adverbs/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-prepositions
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-prepositions/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-pronouns
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-pronouns/dolch.parquet
  - config_name: dolch-conjunctions
    data_files:
      - split: dolch
        path: data/dolch-conjunctions/dolch.parquet
license: other
task_categories:
  - token-classification
pretty_name: NLTK Dolch Sight Word List

NLTK Dolch Sight Word List

The 315 Dolch sight words (Dolch 1936), grouped by part of speech, distributed via NLTK.

Configs

Config	Words	Schema
`dolch`	315	`word, pos`
`dolch-adjectives`	46	`word`
`dolch-nouns`	95	`word`
`dolch-verbs`	92	`word`
`dolch-adverbs`	34	`word`
`dolch-prepositions`	16	`word`
`dolch-pronouns`	26	`word`
`dolch-conjunctions`	6	`word`

Schema

dolch — combined list with part-of-speech

Column	Type	Description
`word`	string	The sight word
`pos`	string	Part of speech (adjectives, nouns, verbs, …)

dolch-* — word only

Column	Type	Description
`word`	string	The sight word

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/dolch", "dolch")         # all 315, with pos
ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/dolch", "dolch-verbs")   # verbs only

Via NLTK

import nltk
nltk.download("words", hf=True)

nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch")             # 315 Dolch sight words
nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch-verbs")       # 92 verbs
nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch-nouns")       # 95 nouns

License

Public domain — Dolch (1936), published work now in the public domain.

Citation

@article{dolch,
  author  = {Dolch, Edward William},
  title   = {A Basic Sight Vocabulary},
  journal = {The Elementary School Journal},
  volume  = {36},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {456--460},
  year    = {1936},
  doi     = {10.1086/457353}
}