Word List Generator
The Word List Generator Project has created a database of
2084
words that
elementary school teachers
can use to help students practice and build
sounding out
and
word-form recognition
skills.
Learn more about the project and how you can help.
To generate a word list matching your students' instructional level, select parameters below--eg, to generate a list of CVC words beginning with continuous sounds, check the
CVC
checkbox and select "are continuous only" from the
Initial sounds
drop-down menu.
Word length:
less than
less than or equal to
equal to
more than or equal to
more than
Any
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Number of syllables:
Any
Mono-syllabic
Multi-syllabic
Exactly 2
Exactly 3
3 or more
Regularity:
Regular
Regularish
Irregular
(
Regular
means: can be decoded by a student who knows the most common sounds of letters a-z and A-Z.
Regularish
means: can be decoded by a student who knows the most common sounds of letters a-z and A-Z and common letter combinations such as sh, th, ea, ar, oo, etc. So cat is regular, moon is regularish, and eye is irregular.)
Matching:
(Use _ to represent a single character, so _a_ would find all three-letter words with a as the middle letter. Use % to represent any number of characters, so %a% would find all words of any length with an a in them. Note that _ and % can be mixed so __a% will find all words that have an a as the third character.)
CVC form:
VC
CVC
VCC
CVCC
CCVC
CCVCC
CCCVC
CCCVCC
for Regular words of less than three syllables only
Initial Sounds:
may or may not include stop sounds
are continuous only
include stop sounds
for Regular words of less than three syllables only, will not affect other search results
Dolch Words:
include only Dolch words for level:
Any
Pre-K
K
1
2
3
Fry Words:
include only Fry words numbers:
Any
1-100
101-200
201-300
amsti number:
Display:
All
20
15
10
8
6
4
3
2
1
words selected:
alphabetically
randomly
Word List Generator is a part of the Free-Reading project,
www.free-reading.net
. To suggest changes and additions to the database,
click here
.