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Fromboluti, Carol Sue, Ed. – Early Childhood Update, 1998
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1996-1998. This newsletter provides a periodic update on the activities of the Early Childhood Research Working Group (ECRWG), organized in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Education and other federal government departments and agencies to promote interagency cooperation and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Harrison, Colin – 1996
Noting the continuing concern about reading standards, reading processes, and methods of teaching reading, this booklet reviews current research in reading. Sections of the booklet discuss: (1) research on reading processes; (2) how fluent readers recognize words; (3) what beginning readers need to know about language; (4) what beginning readers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Hanse, Mona-Britt, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1984
Successive studies conducted in Sweden have shown that linguistic awareness is an important prerequisite of learning to read. In one survey that measured the various aspects of the linguistic awareness of 6-year-old children, a very close connection was found between preschool linguistic awareness and reading proficiency in school. Another study…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Dyslexia, Elementary Education
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Cristine, Ed. – 2000
This book contains eight papers on adult learning and literacy. "The Year 1998 in Review" (Fran Tracy-Mumford) examines educational legislation and policy and developments in adult education program development, program accountability, strategic alliances and partnerships, and instructional methodologies and technologies. "Lessons…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Learning