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high frequency content area vocabulary
high frequency content area vocabulary

The high frequency content area vocabulary (or, high frequency vocabulary) is the content area vocabulary words which appear frequently in a text for a specific subject and/or grade. Text books designed to teach reading skills increase the use of content area vocabulary words to build familiarity. Biblical books have high frequency content area vocabulary which help to clarify the author’s theme. High frequency words vary among biblical books, biblical genres, and biblical eras. To illustrate, in the King James Version of 1 John, we find

• we used 80 times,
• God 64 times,
• you or ye 61 times,
• love (or variations) 46 times,
• know (or variations) 38 times,
• sin(s) 24 times,
• world 23 times,
• life 15 times,
• commandment(s) 14 times,
• Jesus 12 times,
• children 12 times,
• Christ 10 times,
• truth 10 times,
• heard or hear 10 times,
• spirit(s) 8 times,
• man 8 times,
• righteous or righteousness 8 times,
• word 7 times,
• light 6 times,
• death 6 times,
• Spirit 5 times,
• believe 5 times,
• keep 5 times, etc.

Among the above words, most have specific meanings to Scripture. This list would be distinctly different than the words found in 1 Kings.

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