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Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Concludes that the diacritic e generalizations formulated on graphics research have value for use in decoding programs as early as the first reader of typical basal series. (RB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Diacritical Marking, Primary Education
Knight, Jeanne Jensen – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in expressed attitudes toward reading existed after one school year's instruction in each of four different beginning reading programs. Four schools with similar populations using four different emphases in beginning reading were selected for sampling. The different emphases were Language…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Download full textJohns, Jerry L. – 1976
After a brief historical review of the development of basic reading materials and controlled vocabularies, a study to determine the percentage of Dolch words in four recently published basal reader programs is reported. The percentages provided help in determining whether the Dolch list is still viable. Results revealed that words on the Dolch…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Materials
Scott, Myrtle – 1970
In order to determine the effect of grapheme-phoneme correspondence on beginning reading, word acquisition as related to the degree of regularity of the word was used as a measurement. Twenty children enrolled in a preschool project for culturally disadvantaged children at Peabody College were randomly assigned to two groups. One group used the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Emans, Robert; Walz, Carl A. – Elem Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Materials
GOTKIN, LASSAR G.; MCSWEENEY, JOSEPH – 1966
THE SECOND PROGRESS REPORT OF A PROJECT UTILIZING A COMPLEX TEACHING MACHINE, THE EDISON RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT INSTRUMENT, TO STUDY THE ACQUISITION OF BEGINNING READING SKILLS BY 5-YEAR-OLDS FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS IS PRESENTED. THE FIRST REPORT DESCRIBED THE EDISON RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT INSTRUMENT AND DISCUSSED THE PROGRAMING DEVELOPED…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged, Programed Instruction
Rose, Cynthia; And Others – Elementary English, 1972
First graders have demonstrated and identified preferred content in primary reading textbooks in response to single pairs of stories of five content factors." Statistical tables and extensive secondary literature included. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Johns, Jerry L.; And Others – 1974
This study replicated and validated the Dolch basic sight vocabulary investigation. Dolch's method of compiling his list of 95 nouns was also replicated. Some discrepancies were found between the replication study and Dolch's investigations--a few words were left off the lists, although they apparently met all the criteria for inclusion, and a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Readability, Reading
Au, Kathryn H.; Speidel, Gisela E. – 1974
This report summarizes research related to the use of a conventional basal reading program with students in the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP). Results of instruction were measured by the number of objectives gained each quarter, the total number of objectives gained, the number of lessons taken for each objective, and scores on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Consonants, Conventional Instruction
Stallings, Jane A.; Keepes, Bruce D. – 1970
The question of whether reading methods interact differentially with student sequencing abilities was investigated. One hundred and thirty-one children from three schools in Palo Alto, California, were given reading instruction using a linguistic approach (Palo Alto Reading Program), and 115 children from three Palo Alto schools used a whole-word…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Motivation
Bellevue Public Schools, WA. – 1970
The achievement of four groups of children as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test was compared at the end of the first, second, and third year of school. The four programs used were the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.), Words in Color (WIC), Phonetic Keys, and teacher-designed analytic programs. At the end of the first year there appeared…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Kaufman, Maurice – 1968
One class of first graders used Sullivan's Programmed Reading for the 1966 school year and continued in the program through the second grade. The first-grade teacher used the program again with her 1967 class. An evaluation was conducted of the use of programed reading for these two groups as compared with the use of Scott, Foresman's basal…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Burg, Dorothy Lee – 1971
Second-grade pupils who were taught reading in the first grade with the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) were compared with pupils who were taught reading with traditional orthography (TO). Seventy students from two schools in Moline, Illinois, were divided into a control group (using TO) and an experimental group (using i.t.a.) and were matched…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Peer reviewedGarman, Dorothy – Reading Teacher, 1978
Reports research which shows that a wide gap exists between basal reader language and children's level of oral language development. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Beck, Isabel L. – 1977
This paper is a discursive presentation of results of an examination of comprehension instruction provided by widely used basal reader series. Focusing on selections in the first three grades of the 1976 Houghton Mifflin Reading Series, the analyses looked at the sorts of selections the students are asked to read, at the amount of text which they…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Primary Education
