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Children's Experience of Reading and Notions of Units in Language
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Francis, Hazel – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Research reported in this paper is part of a more general investigation into the speech, reading and writing of 5- to 7-year olds. It is designed to trace children's comprehension of instructional terms and their abilities to identify units in written and spoken language while they learn to read. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Word Recognition: A Task-based Definition for Testing and Teaching.
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Wulz, S. Vanost; Hollis, John H. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Explains six tasks which require comprehension of words and which can be used to teach beginning readers. (MKM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Fostering Literacy Learning in Supportive Contexts.
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Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Klenk, Laura – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This paper focuses on enhancement of literacy skills of young children with learning disabilities, through intentional learning, reciprocal teaching, and redefining the contexts of early literacy learning. Research results show that children benefit from strategy instruction occurring within classroom cultures that support collaborative discourse,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
Influences on Basal Reader Programs.
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Durkin, Dolores – Elementary School Journal, 1987
Describes how in the 1960s and 1970s critics of the schools as well as the transitory interests of the schools themselves were the greatest forces for change in basal reader programs. Discusses how current demand for high test scores has influenced those who prepare basal material. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Elementary Education
Comprehension: A Reasonable Goal at the Primary Level?
Hahn, Joan M. – 1978
Strategies for the development of comprehension during the beginning reading stages are discussed in this paper. Among the topics dealt with are relationships between developmental stages of speech production and reading comprehension; ways of creating a reading climate that promotes experiences with literature; specific techniques for using…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Reading for Mastery: An Instructional Guide. Lagniappe: Models of Reading Activities.
Young, Savannah Miller; And Others – 1979
This booklet contains over 35 sample student activities designed by teachers to support the development of prerequisite skills for reading comprehension and to offer opportunities for mastery learning. Activities are suggested in the areas of letter/sound relationships, word recognition, experiential concept development, cognitive concept…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Language Experience Approach
Semantics: Theory and Application. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1976).
Rameh, Clea, Ed. – 1976
These proceedings of the 1976 Georgetown Round Table are divided into four sections that deal with: (1) synchronic and diachronic aspects of semantics; (2) semantics and linguistics; (3) semantics and other disciplines; and (4) semantics and teaching methods. More specifically the papers treat: the semantic interpretation of anaphoric expressions;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Diachronic Linguistics