A 3 year project to develop a beginning braille reading series was undertaken, beginning with research reviews on concept development, tactual perception, braille reading, and general reading. Analysis of vocabulary lists and specifications followed, culminating in development of the readiness, preprimer, and primer readers with accompanying…

OPERATION ALPHABET 1 IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF WORKBOOKS PLANNED TO HELP ADULTS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE. EACH OF THE 100 LESSONS DEVELOPS ONE IDEA OF INTEREST TO ADULTS, EMPHASIZING KEY WORDS AND PRACTICE WRITING EXERCISES. WORDS USED IN THE LESSONS ARE DEFINED AT THE END OF THE BOOK. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE FROM NOBLE AND NOBLE, PUBLISHERS,…

THE SPELLINGS OF ALL MONOSYLLABIC WORDS IN THE CORE VOCABULARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH WERE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A PHONEME AND A SINGLE GRAPHEMIC REPRESENTATION IN THIS SET OF WORDS. A PHONEMIC CLASSIFICATION WAS DEVISED, AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO ANALYZE THE PHONEME-GRAPHEME CORRESPONDENCE OF THESE…

This reader consists of 250 selections of varying lengths. No real attempt has been made to grade the selections according to difficulty for the learner except that the initial selections are shorter and represent straight reporting of such uncomplicated events as arrivals and departures and thus are fairly simple in structure. Notes explaining…

An evaluation of kindergarten children's awareness of lexical units and of the relationship of this variable to prediction of beginning reading is presented. Eighty-four kindergarten children--47 boys and 37 girls--served as the subjects and were tested individually for their ability to identify word boundaries spoken in sentences. The study…

The usefulness of teaching vowel generalizations was studied using three treatment groups, with two second-grade classes in each treatment. The study was considered a pilot investigation to provide direction rather than a definitive research study. In Treatment 1, the McKee Reading for Meaning program was followed, including the teaching of all…

The results of two matching-to-sample experiments using color cues in Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) stimulus words with kindergarten through third grade subjects are included in this document. Color cues influenced subjects to match according to first letters. When the first letter of each stimulus word was underlined in red, kindergarten and…

This manual presents the Spanish decoding skills. Used prior to basic Spanish language primers, it teaches the basic skills necessary for reading Spanish. It is composed of basic listening and sounding activities and work pages used to develop audio-readiness essential to mastery of basic decoding patterns. The sounds of the letters and of letter…

The theories and practices of Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori are outlined in relation to the teaching of beginning reading. Parallels are drawn between the two authors' views of the nature of intelligence and of motivation, leading to the conclusion that there may be danger of overemphasizing reading at the expense of other areas of the…

Suggests strategies which include risk-taking, monitoring one's own reading, and self-correction for helping beginning readers gain meaning from the printed word. (MKM)

Describes a program designed to help parents aid their children in the development of reading readiness skills. (MKM)

Tested first-grade children four times throughout the year on tasks of synthesis (phoneme blending) and analysis (deletion and tapping). Task analysis emphasizes the differing cognitive demands of the tasks. The deletion task in particular taps a phonemic knowledge that is truly reciprocal in its relation to reading. (Author/NH)