IN SEPTEMBER 1964 THE HEGELER FOUNDATION CONDUCTED A WIDESCALE READING STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE CORRELATED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM BASED ON THE "OPEN COURT BASIC READERS" WOULD PRODUCE SUPERIOR RESULTS IN READING AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENT. THE FIRST-YEAR RESULTS ARE PRESENTED. THIRTY-TWO EXPERIMENTAL CLASSES AND 32 CONTROL…

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…

Teachers should be concerned with the prevention of reading disabilities rather than emphasizing remediation. Many deprived children in our inner cities are deficient in areas necessary for successful learning. Characteristics of deprived, inner city children which cause learning problems are listening, speaking, experiences, mobility, immediate…

A LANGUAGE ARTS APPROACH TO BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS COMPARED WITH A BASIC READER APPROACH. IN GENERAL, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE LANGUAGE ARTS APPROACH TO BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD. IT PRODUCED EXCELLENT RESULTS IN READING PERFORMANCE, WORD ATTACK SKILLS, SPELLING, VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION…

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…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 879 first- and second-graders, plus one fourth-grade class. The students are predominantly middle-class whites living in a small city. The program is an initial reading program designed to complement any basal reading series. The instructional strategy is based on the…

SOON IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO REDUCE TO A TECHNOLOGY THE CONSTRUCTION OF MATERIALS FOR THE PRINTED COMMUNICATION SKILL IN FIRST GRADE. THIS TECHNOLOGY REQUIRES A DATA BASE, A HUGE MATRIX OF S-R FUNCTIONS THAT PLOT THE EFFECT OF A STIMULUS-DIMENSION UPON A READING RESPONSE. A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE DATA BASE CAN BE PROVIDED BY REPLICATING…

THE FINAL REPORT FOR THE COORDINATED FIRST-GRADE STUDIES FROM THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION IS PRESENTED. THE STUDIES INVESTIGATED THE FOLLOWING--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT PUPIL, TEACHER, CLASS, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS ARE RELATED TO FIRST-GRADE READING AND SPELLING ACHIEVEMENT, (2) WHICH APPROACH TO INITIAL READING INSTRUCTION PRODUCES SUPERIOR…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 61 kindergarten children, the majority of whom are disadvantaged blacks. The all-day kindergarten program is the first phase in the district-wide Continuous Progress Program in Reading. The sequential stages in the development of reading skills are outlined and are…

This paper discusses the results of a literature study concerning the investigation of models of reading and theories of learning to read, method comparison research, and research on teacher effectiveness. It relates the findings of these studies to a study of teaching behavior in the process of teaching children to read. This latter study…

This working paper presents the background, justification, and development plan for a kindergarten program to identify and correct deficits in prereading skills. The program provides for individual differences in: (a) patterns of skill deficits, (b) rates of learning, and (c) degrees of assistance required. It is intended for optimal use in the…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of taped listening lessons on the achievement of first grade readers. Five classes of first grade children were randomly chosen for treatment one (T1) and five for treatment two (T2). T1 subjects studied reading by use of the Ginn Basal Reading program for skills-building, the…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Macmillan Tutorial System when used as a supplement to regular classroom instruction in beginning reading. The experimental subjects were first grade children who ranked in the lower third of the distribution scores on the Macmillan Reading Readiness Test or who, in the opinion of their…

In discussing instructional approaches to reading, this book offers several definitions of reading and discusses teaching techniques, including early methods, the basal approach, and recent trends, among them the phonics approach, the linguistics approach, the language experience approach, the initial teaching alphabet, individualized reading,…