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Cassano, Christina M., Ed.; Dougherty, Susan M., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2018
This reader-friendly text examines the key foundational studies in early literacy. It addresses such essential questions as how research informs current practices and where the field still needs to go to provide the best learning opportunities for all children. Each chapter describes the methods and findings of one to five seminal studies,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Easley, Dorothy Johnson – 1975
This study was designed to determine the relationship between sex, race, and the vocabulary development of kindergarten children essential for readiness to read. Fifty-one kindergarten children (twenty-nine males and twenty-two females) from Texas public schools were given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the vocabulary subtest of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education
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Atkinson, Richard C.; Fletcher, John D. – Reading Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Phonics
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Wood, Karen D.; Robinson, Nora – Reading Teacher, 1983
Provides several types of prereading activities that combine into one strategy stressing vocabulary, oral language development, and prediction. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Oral Language
Hall, MaryAnne – 1976
The central focus of this second edition is the same as that of the first edition: to describe the language-experience approach and to identify instructional practices which can be followed to teach reading with this approach. In addition, the volume expands the theoretical foundations of language-experience communication, extends the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Siegel, Donna Farrell; Hanson, Ralph A. – 1990
Using extensive data gathered from a follow-up study on an early reading program which tested the reading competence of high school seniors who had received formal beginning reading instruction in kindergarten, an ancillary study investigated the effects of early formal reading instruction on bilingual students. Three of the dependent variables…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, High School Seniors, High Schools
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Rawl, Ruth K.; O'Tuel, Frances S. – Reading Improvement, 1982
Compares the effects of DISTAR, Action Reading, and a cognitive development approach on the reading readiness and mathematical achievement of kindergarten children. Concludes that DISTAR was superior to the other programs on all variables. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children, Mathematics Instruction
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Reading Teacher, 1982
Suggestions from eight contributors include the following: how to use pattern books with beginning readers, how to develop a locally relevant basic sight word list, how to use learning styles in individualizing instruction, and how to personalize handouts. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Style, College Students
ALPERT, HARVEY; TANYZER, HAROLD J. – 1965
BASAL READER SYSTEMS FOR BEGINNERS WERE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF SPECIFIC SYSTEM FEATURES ON THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT SEX AND LEVELS OF INTELLIGENCE. THE PROJECT COVERED THE FOLLOWING SYSTEMS--(1) THE LIPPINCOTT "BASIC READING" SERIES, (2) THE "EARLY-TO-READ…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading
Snake River School District 52, Blackfoot, ID. – 1971
An individualized, nongraded Title III/ESEA reading program to be used with children at kindergarten through third-grade levels has been developed at Moreland School in Moreland, Idaho. Using team teaching and individual and small group instruction, the program seeks to develop in the child prereading experiences, language experiences, expanded…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Kindergarten, Language Enrichment
Barclay, Kathy; Benelli, Cecilia; Gudt, Pamela Terry – Children and Families, 1998
Discusses emergent literacy development, which includes meaningful literacy-related activities involving oral language, reading, and writing. Offers suggestions for fostering children's development in each area, such as the use of picture books and puppets for vocabulary development; reading aloud and discussing children's literature; and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Handwriting
Porter, Para – 1970
This booklet is written for use in university and college courses on the teaching of reading in the elementary grades. It is also written to assist supervisors, teachers, teacher assistants, and student teachers in knowing what to teach in reading and in planning activities to help children learn to read to their maximum potential. Parents also…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
Speiss, Madeleine; Olivero, James – 1969
The development of an entry skills behavior package designed as lessons to prepare the culturally divergent children of the Southwestern United States for beginning reading instruction in existing school programs is described. The series of 135 discrete lessons teaches auditory discrimination, associative vocabulary, listening comprehension,…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives
Doyle, Mary Anne – 1987
A study examined the relationship between reading instruction method, sex of learner, word learning proficiency and reading achievement in the first grade. Subjects were 78 males and 88 females chosen from two white, middle class suburban schools, one having a sight vocabulary instruction program, the other a phonic basal program. Students were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Grade 1, Phonics
Weiss, Maria J. – 1986
Six eclectic basal readers were evaluated to determine what basal readiness programs are teaching kindergarten and early first grade children. Each lesson was analyzed to discover the main purpose of instruction as stated in an objective or skill and the actual requirements placed upon the child during instruction. Using the recommendations from…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
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