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Everatt, John; Smythe, Ian; Ocampo, Dina; Veii, Kazuvire – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
This article discusses issues in the assessment of individuals who show difficulty in learning to read and write in different languages. A review of reading studies in several language contexts leads to a proposed framework for assessment procedures. Case studies from interventions in three language contexts (Sylheti/English, Herero/English,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Dyslexia
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Compton, Donald L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1997
Uses the Spear-Swerling and Sternberg model of reading disability (RD) in order to give practitioners a set of materials that are sensitive to the different developmental stages of word recognition in both normal readers and readers with RD, and that can be used for student assessment. (CR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Low, Marylin – 2001
The reading comprehension assessment tool is a product developed for the Regional Educational Laboratory's (REL) initiative, Pacific Communities with High performance In Literacy Development, herein named the Pacific CHILD. This research project is focused on school improvement, especially as it relates to the teaching and learning of early…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diversity (Student), Educational Improvement, Emergent Literacy
Hoffman, Stevie – 1981
A problem solving process has been created for analyzing descriptive data obtained from the language transactions between parents and children during a shared reading event. Use of other instruments and observations of videotaped interactions led to a classification of reading event components and to a coding system containing items in the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Interaction Process Analysis
Stauffer, Russell G. – 1969
This book is intended for use as a textbook for college students, especially undergraduates, in courses on the foundations of reading instruction. The author's chief concern was to acquaint preservice and inservice teachers with a philosophy of reading instruction which explains reading as a thinking process. The book is divided into five parts.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College Language Programs, Concept Teaching, Evaluation Methods
Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods