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Cramer, Ronald L. – Instructor, 1972
The teacher must recognize the legitimacy of the dialect speaker's language by insuring that beginning reading materials accurately reflect the language and experience of the child. Each child should dictate and then read his own language. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dialects, Language Experience Approach, Reading Ability
Instructor, 1978
A teacher-parent recounts how she used labels on grocery items and other advertising formats to help her preschooler gain confidence in beginning reading. (JMB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Commercial Art, Early Childhood Education, Food Stores
Cunningham, Patricia – Instructor, 1997
Presents two cross-checking activities to help K-3 students learn decoding. The cross-checking involves decoding by using the consonants in a word along with the context. Children learn to decode by thinking about two things simultaneously (what word would make sense in a sentence and the word's letters and sounds). (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity
Routman, Regie – Instructor, 1992
The article describes how to teach skills strategically in whole-language classrooms. It discusses differences between skills and strategies and notes how to move from skill to strategy. A section on teaching phonics examines phonics charts and personal phonics booklets; suggests an order for teaching phonics. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonics, Primary Education, Reading Skills
Pearce, Mary – Instructor, 1995
Presents teacher-tested techniques for making phonics part of helping students learn to read. Suggestions include writing to read, working with storybook text, using techniques that utilize many senses, and making phonics only one part of a balanced reading program. Resources for obtaining phonics materials are included. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Materials, Phonics, Primary Education
Blevins, Wiley – Instructor, 2000
Presents activities for teaching two basic phonemic awareness tasks to young children who are learning to read. Oral blending exercises help children hear how sounds are put together to make words so they can begin sounding out words independently as they read. Oral segmentation activities help children separate words into sounds so they can build…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Kloza, Brad – Instructor, 2000
Presents a collection of computer software programs designed to spark learning enthusiasm at every grade level and across the curriculum. They include Reader Rabbit's Learn to Read, Spelling Power, Mind Twister Math, Community Construction Kit, Breaking the Code, Encarta Africana 2000, Virtual Serengeti, Operation: Frog (Deluxe), and My First…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Computer Games, Computer Software
