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Levin, Jill – 1988
This paper surveys methods for teaching reading and writing in kindergarten. The paper stresses the importance of accepting a child's own efforts, including invented spelling, and providing an atmosphere that encourages experimentation. Chapter 1 introduces the topic; chapter 2 provides a historical overview. The current state of the art is…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Methods, Kindergarten
Cook, Barbara; Johnson, Marilyn – 1980
Information is given in this booklet on how to implement a language experience approach to reading readiness instruction in the kindergarten based on the experiences of teachers in the Burrillville Reading Observes Necessary Communication Objectives and Skills (BRONCOS) project, a Right to Read program in Burrillville, Rhode Island. An…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Integrated Activities, Kindergarten, Language Arts
Ribowsky, Helene – 1985
A year-long, quasi-experimental study investigated the comparative effects of a whole language approach and a code emphasis approach upon the emergent literacy of 53 girls in two kindergarten classes in an all girls' parochial school in the Northeast. Subjects in the experimental class received instruction in Holdaway's Shared Book Experience…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Buckner, John H.; And Others – Graduate Student Association Journal, 1978
This study compared the first grade reading comprehension and vocabulary scores of children who were exposed to a Language Experience Approach in kindergarten to the scores of children who participated in a traditional kindergarten reading readiness program. Two groups of 22 students each were matched for sex and for scores on standardized reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Followup Studies, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedRichgels, Donald J. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes a program that associates phonics instruction with children's earliest reading and writing, using the ERIS method to teach sound/letter correspondences and to provide opportunities for writing and reading. (NKA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Innovation, Kindergarten
Christensen, K. Eleanor – 1984
When used diagnostically at the readiness level, language-experience becomes an effective way to meet individual differences and to differentiate instruction in a group setting. For a 5- or 6-year old, school should be an exciting, happy, purposeful place, and language-experience lends itself well to such a setting. The first steps are to…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Grade 1, Group Activities, Individual Needs
Download full textSoutheastern Education Lab., Atlanta, GA. – 1971
This test is intended for use with a two-volume, 32-lesson set of materials for rural disadvantaged kindergarten children. The lessons are designed to help alleviate language deficiencies of the children by providing them with school-related activities, communication and cultural experiences, and other readiness instruction through language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dialects
Nadler, Diane Leboe – 1989
A literature based reading program was developed to improve reading comprehension skills of 14 students in a Chapter 1 pre-first grade class. Instead of using a basal reader for instruction, the students were exposed to trade or literature books, The reading strategies that were pre- and posttested were recognition of a sight vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, High Risk Students, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
