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Corcoran, Pat – Reading Newsreport, 1972
In this experimental elementary school program children are not instructed in reading until they show an interest in books. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Experimental Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness
Reading Newsreport, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Experimental Programs, Instructional Materials, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedBurke, Jacob; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Three experimental kindergarten curriculum enrichment approaches were tested in relation to their effect on reading readiness with a total of 106 children. (DLS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Programs, Learning Laboratories
Denny, Patricia; And Others – Reading Newsreport, 1972
Discovering a child's possible auditory and visual perceptual problems at the reading readiness stage may save him years of frustration in reading. (MM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Programs, Kindergarten
Download full textCunningham, Grover; Pierce-Jones, John – 1969
A 3-month pilot project was undertaken at the University of Texas to gain experience in administering the Cynthia Buchanan Language Program (Buchanan, 1967) and to test its effectiveness in making meaningful changes in the language development of disadvantaged Mexican-American preschoolers. A group of 114 Mexican-American children were chosen as…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Experimental Programs, Language Acquisition, Mexican Americans
Peer reviewedStanchfield, Jo M. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Experimental Programs, Kindergarten, Prereading Experience
Peer reviewedStanchfield, Jo M. – Elementary School Journal, 1971
Kindergarten children who were taught in a structured, sequential program achieved significantly more than kindergarten children taught the regular curriculum. (WY)
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Kindergarten, Prereading Experience, Program Descriptions
BOYLE, RUTH C. – 1959
A READING PROGRAM WAS STUDIED AND TESTED FOR MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS WHO READ SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW EXPECTANCY. THIS REPORT REFLECTS AN ORIGINAL ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM ONLY FOR THOSE EDUCABLES WHO HAVE NOT LEARNED TO READ. THIS PLAN WAS DISCONTINUED WHEN PRELIMINARY SCREENING REVEALED ONLY A FEW NONREADERS AMONG THE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Background, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
McConnell, Freeman – 1969
A program for approximately 100 2- to 5-year-old culturally deprived Nashville, Tennessee, children was conducted in two community day-care centers. The children received instruction in groups of six or seven on a half-day basis for 5 days a week. Both language input and output were the focus of instruction, which was carried out through…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Roy, Irving; Roy, Muriel L. – 1968
Fifteen children from each of three kindergarten classes were randomly chosen to participate in this study and were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1) a group that received a perceptual training program; (2) a group that received augmented attention but no program; and (3) a control group that received no special program nor…
Descriptors: Attention, Curriculum Evaluation, Enrichment Activities, Experimental Curriculum
Geis, Robley – 1968
In an attempt to lessen academic failure during the early years of schooling, 23 middle class kindergarten children who scored low on tests of cognitive development were given a special 6-week summer enrichment program. A control group of 23 low scorers received no enrichment program. Parents of the experimental subjects were invited to visit the…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Experimental Programs, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Virginia Beach City Public Schools, VA. – 1973
The School Board of Virginia Beach has conducted a two-year pilot program focusing on elementary school students who attend school 45 days and break 15 days year round. Four principal questions were proposed and researched by various independent agencies: (1) What effect does the 45-15 cycled-attendance year-round operation have on pupil…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Age, Comparative Analysis
O'Donnell, C. Michael P. – 1968
Seventy-eight kindergarten children were randomly placed in four experimental classrooms. Two of the classes were taught with the basal reader approach to reading readiness, and two were taught with the conceptual-language program approach. An extensive pretest battery was given to these children in October 1967. Instruction in the two approaches…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
