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Direct linkSlavin, Robert E.; Lake, Cynthia; Chambers, Bette; Cheung, Alan; Davis, Susan – Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education, 2009
This article systematically reviews research on the achievement outcomes of four types of approaches to improving the beginning reading success of children in kindergarten and first grade: Reading curricula, instructional technology, instructional process programs, and combinations of curricula and instructional process. Study inclusion criteria…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Beginning Reading, Reading Programs
Watson, Tara; Hempenstall, Kerry – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This study was an evaluation of a parent delivered, computer based beginning reading program with a group of 15 Kindergarten and Grade 1 students. Completing the "Funnix" program at home through a CD copy was expected to produce educationally and statistically significant improvements in phonemic awareness, letter-sound fluency, non-word…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Phonemics, Beginning Reading
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
Vail, Edward O. – 1975
A study was made of Formula Phonics Reading Chain Programs in six California elementary schools to determine whether these programs replicated, in both form and educational outcome, the model program. On-site visits were made to evaluate program components and teaching strategies. Student achievement data provided by the schools, the districts,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Program Evaluation
Smith, Lewis B.; Morgan, Glen D. – Elementary English, 1975
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Arts, Magnetic Tape Cassettes, Primary Education
Emans, Robert – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistics, Phonics, Reading Instruction
CAMPBELL, PAUL B.; AND OTHERS – 1967
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 1965-66, GROUPS OF FIRST-GRADE PUPILS IN THE LIVONIA SCHOOL SYSTEM, MICHIGAN, WERE PROVIDED WITH READING INSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM EIGHT PUBLISHERS REPRESENTING EIGHT APPROACHES AS PART ONE OF A 2-YEAR STUDY. THE MATERIALS WERE THE LIPPINCOTT BASIC READING SERIES, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES BASIC READING SERIES, THE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Berdiansky, Betty; And Others – 1973
From a 9,000-word lexicon, a set of spelling-to-sound correspondences was developed to systematically organize possible content for beginning reading instruction. With the aid of computer sorting procedures, correspondences and correspondence exemplars were sequenced according to criteria of productivity, regularity, generalizability, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Ellis, Patricia Ann – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the unaided teacher is able to teach kindergarten children in remedial reading as well as the teacher who is aided by trained fifth- and sixth-grade tutors. Involved in the study were eight schools using the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) First Year Communications Skills Program, which is…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Kindergarten
Sakamoto, Takahiko – 1974
Japanese preschool children begin to read at home at age four without any formal instruction or reading readiness programs, and the development of their reading abilities in the preschool stage is mainly up to the parents. A new reading program will be needed for the sake of children with parents who are not sufficiently concerned about reading.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Preschool Learning, Reading
Cage, Bob N. – 1971
The reading program, Words in Color, was used as a 1-year program at the first-grade level in an elementary school in Gainesville, Florida. The reading program in each of four control classes was identifiably unique and varied. Predata were collected using the Metropolitan Readiness Test, Form A, in September, 1969 and the Otis Quick Scoring…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Color, Grade 1, Program Evaluation
Noland, Ronald G., Ed. – 1972
This publication is a compilation of the talks given at the 1972 Auburn University Department of Elementary Education Reading Conference. The theme of the conference was "Children and Reading: The Human Connectives." The topics and authors include: (1) "Children and Reading: The Human Connectives," by Donald E. Carline; (2) "Solving Problems…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Developmental Reading, Reading
Peer reviewedPienaar, Peter T. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Describes and evaluates "Breakthrough to Literacy," a beginning reading scheme based on the language experience approach and launched in Saskatoon, Canada schools in 1974. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Meyer, Rick – 2001
The voice of the government via the Reading Excellence Act gives the message that direct systematic intense phonics instruction will solve the reading problem, end debate, lead to student success in life beyond school, and provide teachers with the prestige of successful reading instruction. This paper takes a close look at systematic direct…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Naturalistic Observation, Phonics
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 2000
Based directly on the findings from the National Research Council's report "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children," this guide offers a "checklist" that will help teachers and principals recognize at a glance the key characteristics of quality reading programs identified in the research. The guide does not describe any single way to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
