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Peer reviewedCunningham, Pat – Reading Teacher, 1981
Reviews "Happily Ever After," a reading readiness program that is designed to help those children who lack many of the concepts and abilities assumed by most readiness programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Primary Education, Reading Readiness
Fox, Barbara J. – 1996
Based on the idea that word identification is a group of strategies that children develop as they learn to read, not a single letter-sound by letter-sound pathway to pronunciation, this book invites teachers to support readers as they develop and use many different world identification strategies. Chapters in the book are: (1) Using the Alphabetic…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Phonics
Peer reviewedKarstadt, Roberta – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Instruction
Instructor, 1978
A teacher-parent recounts how she used labels on grocery items and other advertising formats to help her preschooler gain confidence in beginning reading. (JMB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Commercial Art, Early Childhood Education, Food Stores
Peer reviewedJones, Marian – Reading Teacher, 1983
Offers guidelines for helping children produce their own alphabet books. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities
Download full textBlake, Amy – Tutor, 1998
This article presents summaries of research on 13 core understandings about learning to read, from "Building a Knowledge Base in Reading" (Jane Braunger and Jan Patricia Lewis). In the article, each core understanding is followed by activity ideas and strategies useful for tutors--these activities were created with one-on-one tutoring in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Literacy, Primary Education
Peer reviewedMcGee, Lea; And Others – Childhood Education, 1982
Reviews research offering the teacher a different perspective from which to view beginning reading and provides a strong justification for activities normally thought to be less than academic. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBurris, Nancy A.; Lentz, Kathleen A. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Establishes a developmental perspective for using caption books (picture books with short language captions closely related to simple pictures), then details how the books can be used in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedDuffelmeyer, Frederick A. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Describes an instructional technique for expanding children's vocabulary that embodies the principle that learning involves relating new experiences to what is already known. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Steuer, Loreli Olson; Murphy, Theresa Gaffney – Teacher, 1979
Examples of comprehension activities are presented in the areas of: context clues, literal comprehension, recall of details, main ideas, maps and charts, interpretive comprehension, sequence, and evaluative comprehension. This article is one of four in this issue comprising the Teacher's Reading Seminar 1979. (SJL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Elementary Education
Blevins, Wiley – 1997
The 48 phonemic awareness activities in this book can be used to supplement and enhance any reading program. Most of the activities in the book can be used for instructional purposes; however, the games and activity pages are intended for practice and review, not for the initial introduction or instruction of skills. After a discussion of what…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Phonemic Awareness, Phonemics
Butt, Donna Sabino; Thurman, Kathy Barlow – 2003
Interactive books have parts or pieces that children can manipulate while reading the text. In the interactive books described in this classroom resource book for students in grades PreK-1, the pieces are attached to Velcro and can be moved from one part of the book to another, while the text consists of verses set to familiar tunes so that…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedArthur, Sharon V. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Discusses several ways teachers can use picture books for teaching prereading and reading skills. Reviews several such books. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Picture Books, Prereading Experience
Peer reviewedWatkins, Ruth V. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
This article offers both a rationale and method for the implementation of a natural literacy program for preschool children with language disabilities. It reviews research on development of fundamental literacy skills and briefly describes extant approaches to facilitating literacy skills. Tenets of the natural literacy perspective are explained…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Experience, Language Impairments, Learning Activities
Zgonc, Yvette – 2000
This book provides the tools classroom teachers need to determine which children lack the phonological awareness skills needed to become successful readers as well as to pinpoint deficiencies and address various needs. The book's unique features include the following: a comprehensive assessment that measures children's phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Learning Activities
