Designed as a resource for reading teachers who are attempting to enhance their students' fundamental reading skills and to permit the more rigorous determination of readability levels for both instructional materials and testing devices, this word list provides a grade-by-grade set of key words students need to master for grades 1 through 12 The first part of the word list contains a description of the list and suggestions for its use, followed by a discussion of the procedures used to generate the list. The major portion of the list contains the vocabulary for each grade level. A cumulative word list for grades 1 through 12 concludes the list. (HTH)