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Direct linkBrooks, Greg; Beard, Roger; Ampaw-Farr, Jaz – Research Papers in Education, 2021
From 2006 the British government strongly favoured synthetic phonics as the principal approach for the teaching of initial literacy in state-funded primary schools in England, and since 2010 has made it mandatory. In 2007-2013 just over 100 commercially published phonics schemes were available, and in that same period the government maintained a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Phonics, Basal Reading
Pollack, Deborah M. – Reading Newsreport, 1973
Describes a beginning reading program based on the child's language and experience. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
Reading Newsreport, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Experimental Programs, Instructional Materials, Kindergarten Children
Download full textYeager, Robert F. – 1977
This paper summarizes the successes and failures of the Plato Elementary Reading Curriculum Project, a computer-assisted instructional system funded by the National Science Foundation from 1971 to 1976. The paper discusses what the project did, the types of hardware that were used, how lessons were designed, the two approaches that were taken…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Materials, Primary Education
TANYZER, HAROLD J. – 1967
THE NATURE, FUNCTIONS, AND TRANSITIONAL STAGE OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (I.T.A.) IN BEGINNING READING IN THE UNITED STATES ARE DISCUSSED. THE MEDIUM, I.T.A., WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A TRANSITIONAL ALPHABET, OF WHICH SPELLING IS AN INTEGRAL PART. THE MEDIUM IS DESIGNED TO RATIONALIZE THE DECODING PROCESS AND AT THE SAME TIME PROVIDE A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Instructional Materials, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedSpiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Teacher, 1989
Describes six criteria for evaluating materials that will be addressed in forthcoming columns: content validity, transfer potential, adaptability/flexibility, amount of reinforcement, quality of directions and instructional language, and bias. Uses this criteria to evaluate "First-Start Read-Along Program 5," a reading series for primary students.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Material Evaluation
Pope, Francis H.; Medina, Edward – 1972
This manual presents a Spanish phonetic reading program based upon pictures which provide clues to each fundamental speech sound in the language. Pupils are thus able, through auditory and visual discrimination exercises, to match a Spanish speech sound with its proper alphabet symbol. For related documents, see FL 003 749, FL 003 750, and FL 003…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Guides
Jenkins, Charles; Krashen, Stephen – 1972
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Mod 2 Reading Program is planned as a four-year program (K-3) for teaching reading skills to primary-grade children. The materials from the first- and second-year reading programs are designed with the following two goals in mind: to identify sentence structures that are beyond the syntactic capacity of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Instructional Materials, Primary Education
Cronnell, Bruce – 1970
The nature and use of contractions and abbreviations in beginning reading is discussed and applied to the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Mod 2 Reading Program, a four-year program (K-3) for teaching reading skills to primary-grade children. The contractions and abbreviations are listed and sequenced for the reading program. The results of…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedIndrisano, Roselmina; Chambers, J. Richard – Journal of Education, 1972
This review includes investigations and discussions of the teaching of reading in a multi-cultural society. An annotated bibliography follows the completed review of the literature. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning
Sullivan, Howard J. – 1971
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Mod 2 Reading Program is planned as a four-year program (K-3) for teaching reading skills to primary-grade children. To date, all stories have been written for the first-year and second-year segments of the program. This paper describes the selection of rules and words, the number and type of stories, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Developmental Reading, Instructional Materials
Peniche Leger, Maria Elena, Ed. – 1972
This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 052. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Early Reading, Instructional Materials
Pope, Francis H.; Medina, Edward – 1972
This manual presents an English phonetic reading program based upon pictures which provide clues to each fundamental speech in the language. Pupils are thus able, through auditory and visual discrimination exercises, to match an English speech sound with its proper alphabet symbol. For related documents, see FL 003 749, FL 003 750, and FL 003…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Tinker, Miles A.; McCullough, Constance M. – 1975
Designed to present a program of balanced developmental reading, this book describes basic principles of reading instruction and presents examples of recommended practice for kindergarten through the elementary grades. Chapter one, "About Reading and the Reading Teacher," discusses the nature, goals, and methods of teaching reading; the reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1999
This paper provides an overview of Breakthrough to Literacy, a research-based early literacy program that combines interactive software, quality print materials, take-home materials and staff development to provide individualized reading instruction for students. It uses technology to help children understand the relationship between sound, print,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Individualized Reading, Instructional Effectiveness
