Discusses the use of a simplified diacritical marking system as a device for the teaching of reading to pre-school children. (TO)

Results of this study showed that the high intralist-similarity groups required more learning trails but demonstrated greater word-recognition skills than the low intralist-similarity groups regardless of whether pretraining was used although discrimination pretraining did increase the rate of learning in beginning reading. (TO)

For the past five years, the Division of Career and Continuing Education of the Los Angeles City Schools has offered classes for parents on their role in teaching children to read. (Author)

Discusses the advantages of the English-Unifon coding system and its five books for beginning reading instruction. (MM)

Examines the present state of the relationship between linguistics and reading, proposes how reading instruction could be improved using currently know linguistic information, and discusses one type of linguistic finding useful to reading specialists. (Author)

Results of research reports can be interpreted to suit personal prejudices, say the authors, since many research studies are not carefully reported. (Authors/MB)

Discusses results and implications of 27 related investigations of beginning reading instruction, including the problems and benefits of diverse experimental approaches. (MD)

Describes encoding and decoding processes as related to the true code of sounds and sound groupings in words. (MD)