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Download full textJohns, Jerry L. – 1976
After a brief historical review of the development of basic reading materials and controlled vocabularies, a study to determine the percentage of Dolch words in four recently published basal reader programs is reported. The percentages provided help in determining whether the Dolch list is still viable. Results revealed that words on the Dolch…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Materials
Woodcock, Richard W. – 1968
This paper presents a model for classifying initial approaches to the teaching of reading. The model consists of three dimensions: the degree of structuring of the program, the sequence of gradation of reading units, and the kind of symbol system used in the initial stages of reading instruction. The degrees of structuring refers to programs such…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Models
Ellis, Patricia Ann – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the unaided teacher is able to teach kindergarten children in remedial reading as well as the teacher who is aided by trained fifth- and sixth-grade tutors. Involved in the study were eight schools using the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) First Year Communications Skills Program, which is…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Kindergarten
Johns, Jerry L.; And Others – 1974
This study replicated and validated the Dolch basic sight vocabulary investigation. Dolch's method of compiling his list of 95 nouns was also replicated. Some discrepancies were found between the replication study and Dolch's investigations--a few words were left off the lists, although they apparently met all the criteria for inclusion, and a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Readability, Reading
Au, Kathryn H.; Speidel, Gisela E. – 1974
This report summarizes research related to the use of a conventional basal reading program with students in the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP). Results of instruction were measured by the number of objectives gained each quarter, the total number of objectives gained, the number of lessons taken for each objective, and scores on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Consonants, Conventional Instruction
Norton, Donna E.; Hubert, Patty – 1977
This study examined differences in oral reading strategies of 60 first-grade students attending school in two comparable Texas districts. One district provided beginning reading instruction through an eclectic basal approach; the second taught reading using a phonic emphasis approach. The Reading Miscue Inventory was used to analyze oral reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Miscue Analysis
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
The six tables in this report rank the combinations of reading materials used in the classrooms of 34 elementary schools of Washington, D.C., during the 1976-77 academic year. The data are based on teacher reports about first through sixth grade students for whom there were both pretest and posttest scores. The tables indicate that a wide variety…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Reich, Carol M.; Reich, Peter M. – 1977
This study investigated the agreement between previously published vocabulary lists recommended for use with children and lists derived from the speech of contemporary children in grades one, two, and three in Toronto. In the first part of the study, existing vocabulary lists were compared. In the second part, language samples were collected from…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Foreign Countries
Goldbecker, Sheralyn S. – 1975
In discussing instructional approaches to reading, this book offers several definitions of reading and discusses teaching techniques, including early methods, the basal approach, and recent trends, among them the phonics approach, the linguistics approach, the language experience approach, the initial teaching alphabet, individualized reading,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pany, Darlene – 1976
The extent and direction of curriculum bias in standardized reading achievement tests were examined. Bias was estimated by comparing the relative overlap in the contents of five separate reading achievement tests with the contents of seven commercial reading series at first-grade and second-grade levels. Overlap between each achievement test and…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Evaluation, Grade 1
Tobin, Michael – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
The vocabularies of five- to eight-year-old blind children were sampled to help develop a graded series of braille reading books. Lists of words in alphabetic and frequency order are presented. (See TM 504 595 for availability). (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading
