Discusses the results of research on the effect of readiness training for preschool youngsters. (RB)

A look at reading research and practices in Europe and Asia. (RB)

This experiment was designed to investigate the relative value of three sources of cue (graphic stimulus only, graphic stimulus plus a picture cue, and graphic stimulus plus a context cue) in combination with two list types (minimal and maximal contrast) as a means of facilitating the acquisition of initial reading vocabulary. The subjects, 137…

RESEARCH IS COMPILED ON THE TOPIC OF READING READINESS. NUMEROUS RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT CHILDREN VARY GREATLY IN THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY POSSESS "READING READINESS" AND THAT CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY AIDED BY A READING READINESS PROGRAM. DISAGREEMENT EXISTS AMONG READING AUTHORITIES ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF READINESS. AREAS…

The stimulus properties of the letters b, d, p, and q were investigated in an attempt to demonstrate that the common reversal of these letters by beginning readers is in part determined by the vertical aspect of the stimulus figure. One hundred eighty kindergarteners were randomly selected from a racially mixed population and randomly assigned to…

From among the papers the author has presented at various conferences and the articles she has written for different journals, nine were selected to form this book. They are all concerned with beginning reading, and each forms a chapter of the book. Chapter one, "Approaches to Beginning Reading in Great Britain," discusses background…

A beginning reading alphabet identified as the Simplified Signalling System was developed in this study for the teaching of reading. The system consisted of (1) key symbols and augmentations used in the introduction for beginning and remedial readers and (2) transliteration of sample materials suggested for use by beginning and remedial readers.…

Correspondences between printed and spoken messages are seen to be based on meaning; expectancies about syntax and semantics lead the reader to form hypotheses which can be confirmed or not with only a small portion of cues available in the text. (Author)

THIS STUDY TESTED THE ARRANGEMENT OF AN INTERRELATED PROGRAM OF PROCEDURES THAT CAN MUTUALLY GENERATE AND NURTURE THE LEARNING PROCESS FOR BEGINNING READING. CLOSE, SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF PEOPLE OF VARYING AGES WERE MADE. THE MATERIALS HAD BEEN DESIGNED, FIELD TESTED, AND REFINED BY A LANGUAGE RESEARCH GROUP AT THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF…

Cognitive confusion is the common state of young persons in regard to concepts of units of writing. In the past 10 years, research has accumulated to show that all children pass through the important stage of initial cognitive confusion in learning to read. Children often confuse "writing" with "drawing,""letter" with "number," and so on.…

In this paper, Piagetian stages are discussed in relation to the internalization of key vocabulary words by children. Research studies that indicate a parallel development using Sylvia Ashton-Warner's idea of key vocabulary of children are briefly discussed. The author agrees that three studies do not completely prove a hypothesis, however they…

This study investigated how reading begins in speech. The subjects were nonreading kindergarten children divided into a control group of 20 students and an experimental group of 20 students. Both groups had an equal amount of discrimination practice upon the same sentences prior to test for word identification. The sentences for the experimental…

The cognitive clarity theory may be stated quite simply and briefly: (1) Learning to read involved applying general intellectual abilities to the task. (2) Reading is usually a silent activity, and there are very few outward signs of what the behavior involves. (3) Children do not know the basic concepts involved in thinking about the tasks of…

The grapho-linguistic approach to teaching reading involves the labeling of self-initiated graphic images reinforced by the copying of the written labels, which helps the child to understand the transference of meaning from the object to its name to its written name. The best time to start labeling strategies is when the child draws recognizable…