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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
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 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
Download full textAli, Yvonne B.; And Others – 1980
As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read Read programs, this manual is designed as an easy reference source through which parents can help their young children develop the skills necessary to read. While the manual is designed for use by parents, the activities discussed can…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Parent Participation, Parent Responsibility
Peer reviewedYawkey, Thomas Daniels – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reviews four current approaches to play behavior of young children and concludes that using forms of play such as puppets and body action movements to rehearse story content is effective in aiding aural language comprehension and recall in young children. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research
Ali, Yvonne B.; And Others – 1980
Intended for teachers of preschool and kindergarten children, this manual is designed to share effective practices and products that have been either developed or refined by pre-elementary Right to Read programs. The first section of the manual discusses a variety of activities that focus on cognitive, language, personal/social, and motor…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Learning Activities, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1982
Suggestions from eight contributors include the following: how to use pattern books with beginning readers, how to develop a locally relevant basic sight word list, how to use learning styles in individualizing instruction, and how to personalize handouts. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Style, College Students
Robinson, Violet B.; Ross, Gretchen; Neal, Harriet C. – 2000
Educators are placing increasing emphasis on developing literacy requirements for young children. This book reviews research on emergent literacy among preschool and kindergarten children and provides suggestions for kindergarten teachers to create instructional programs that enhance children's literacy learning and to avoid developmentally…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Practices
Blass, Rosanne J. – 1980
Reflecting the work of Yetta Goodman on child language development, this paper examines Goodman's five "roots of literacy" and offers suggestions on classroom techniques for nurturing these roots. The first half of the paper explains how Goodman identified the roots of literacy and describes each of them, including (1) print awareness in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Techniques
Lockert, Richard – 2000
This handbook, which is intended for tutors, disability practitioners, and others working with adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities, contains supplementary materials for and about supporting literacy for people with intellectual/developmental challenges. The handbook is a product of the following activities: extensive research of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading
