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Download full textBlake, Amy – Tutor, 1998
This article presents summaries of research on 13 core understandings about learning to read, from "Building a Knowledge Base in Reading" (Jane Braunger and Jan Patricia Lewis). In the article, each core understanding is followed by activity ideas and strategies useful for tutors--these activities were created with one-on-one tutoring in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Activities, Literacy, Primary Education
Murray, Bruce A.; Brabham, Edna G.; Villaume, Susan K.; Veal, Margo – 2002
Blending means smoothing together subword segments to try to identify a spoken word. Research suggests that beginning readers need to blend to combine the phonemes they "sound out" into a recognizable approximation of a known word. Popular wisdom presumes blending is easiest when the segments of words are whispered and when syllables are…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities
Spencer, Margaret – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1976
Looks at the implications of some striking new research on how children become successful readers. (Editor)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Testing, Family Characteristics, Learning
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1981
Offers suggestions from eight contributors, including (1) activities for speedy readers, (2) conducting a "reading roundup," (3) improving children's math vocabulary, (4) teaching syllabication, (5) displaying student work, and (6) ideas for parents of beginning readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1982
Presents suggestions from five contributors including how to develop middle school students' library skills, teaching early reading through materials from a fast food restaurant chain, and ways to conduct student evaluation of teachers. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Library Skills
Peer reviewedEvans, Mary Ann; Carr, Thomas H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Compares two groups of primary-grade classrooms differing in their instructional approach to beginning reading to assess the relationship between learning activities, cognitive ability, and reading skill. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1982
Contributors suggest techniques for teaching kindergarten children to read, celebrating Black Heritage Week, developing critical reading and thinking skills, building a classroom library, motivating young readers, and involving parents in reading instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Culture, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
Pittelman, Susan D.; Levin, Kathy M. – 1985
A research project was undertaken to explore the effects of using a microcomputer equipped with a speech synthesizer to enhance and aid in the individualization of the language experience approach in beginning reading instruction. A prototypic program was developed and pilot-tested with 12 kindergarten children over a three-week period, with each…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Tice, Joan, Ed. – 1982
Contained in this yearbook are the proceedings of the fifth annual Arizona State University Reading Conference. This edition reflects an emphasis on a wide range of topics, including study skills, oral language, and teaching strategies. Following a foreword, the conference articles discuss the following: (1) study skills across the curriculum, (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Literature, Beginning Reading, Bilingualism
Brand, Wendy – 1991
This practicum was designed to allow first graders the opportunity to read and write in a more natural and authentic manner than that permitted by using the basal reading series as the basis for reading instruction. The first grade reading program was transformed from a basal-oriented approach to a whole language approach. Through the use of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Activities
Jacquette, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
The ten articles in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference. The first two articles present different perspectives on current research in the teaching of reading comprehension, the third offers a systematic plan for teaching comprehension to remedial readers, and a fourth looks at reading as a tool for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
