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Teale, William H.; Paciga, Kathleen A.; Hoffman, Jessica L. – Reading Teacher, 2007
Addressing beginning reading instruction in urban schools, this article proposes that a curriculum gap exists in many K-3 classrooms that operate under the guidelines of the No Child Left Behind Act and Reading First. The authors make a case for the inclusion of systematic and sustained instruction in comprehension, content knowledge, and writing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Beginning Reading, Federal Legislation, Reading Skills
Rosier, Helen Cody; Benally, Louise – 1979
The student reader-workbook, third part of the "Chaa'" series, presents activities for the student to do orally and in writing. Pages are divided into four frames with the intention of completing each frame before continuing to the next frame in sequence. To allow children an opportunity to decode words at an early age, the code emphasis (phonics)…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Hill, Charles H.; Methot, Kathleen – Elementary English, 1974
Beginning first grade readers were able to successfully transfer from a structured programed approach to an individualized approach to reading. (JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conferences, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1
Haisley, Faye B.; Perino, Lyn – 1977
An attempt to build on oral language programs--such as the language experience approach--by adding a written language component and a phonics component, to make transition to reading more meaningful and reading skill development more systematic, was undertaken in the study described here. The program, called DIREKT, was conducted by two…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children, Language Experience Approach
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Warren, Ann; Frederick, E. Coston – Reading Horizons, 1975
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1
Brock, Kathy Cole; And Others – 1980
Data are presented on the use of the Monterey Reading program, a multilevel individualized approach to teaching basic reading skills and improving decoding skills, with 21 hearing impaired students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC) school system. The Monterey program is further explained to provide built in reinforcement, measurable feedback for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Ali, Yvonne B.; And Others – 1980
As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read Read programs, this manual is designed as an easy reference source through which parents can help their young children develop the skills necessary to read. While the manual is designed for use by parents, the activities discussed can…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Parent Participation, Parent Responsibility
Williams, Joanna P. – 1979
The paper describes an instructional program that teaches basic decoding skills to learning disabled children, presents the rationale for its development, and offers results of field trials designed to evaluate its effectiveness. The program "ABD's (analysis, blending, decoding) of Reading," initially focuses on auditory tasks and the…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
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
HARRIS, ALBERT J.; MORRISON, COLEMAN
THIS STUDY IS PART OF THE CRAFT READING PROJECT OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHICH IS INVESTIGATING THE READING PROGRESS OF DISADVANTAGED URBAN NEGRO CHILDREN. IN THE PRESENT STUDY, CHILDREN IN GRADES ONE, TWO, AND THREE, WITH AND WITHOUT PREVIOUS KINDERGARTEN EXPERIENCE, WERE TAUGHT READING BY TWO BASIC METHODS, EACH DIVIDED INTO TWO…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Smethurst, Wood – 1975
This book has been written to help parents, or any other nonprofessional reading teachers, teach preschoolers about reading. Part one discusses the psychological, philosophical, and historical aspects of home teaching. Part two presents the practical aspects of home teaching, specifically the things a parent can do to prepare a child to read and a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Home Instruction, Parent Participation
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
Sapulpa Public Schools, OK. – 1974
One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program is based on the principle of early identification of students' strengths and weaknesses and the development of individualized methods to correct the weaknesses and emphasize the strengths. The program, begun in 1972, serves 749 kindergarten and first-grade…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Individualized Reading
Legum, Stanley E.; And Others – 1969
An effort to lay the foundation for the preparation of reading programs which will match the social and linguistic background of lower-class children, in particular children of the nation's black ghettos, is made in this paper. The paper consists of five sections. The first section discusses the interconnection of social, geographic, and stylistic…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
George, John E. – 1972
This paper deals with the environment within the family structure and its relationship to literacy. The contents include: "Parent-Child Studies," which cites studies related to environmental influences on the development of reading readiness, parents attitudes and reading achievement, parent involvement and education, television and parental home…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Research, Environmental Influences, Illiteracy
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