Brief discussion of readiness experiences including listening, asking questions, viewing interesting things, and writing about class experiences. (BRT)

Argues that teachers of beginning reading can incorporate the cloze procedure into ongoing reading programs, and shows how this can be done. (RB)

Argues that proponents of the sight method must reevaluate some of their advice to teachers in light of recent research. (RB)

1,000 words were rated for imagery by adults. 63 first graders and kindergarteners were then taught to read 756 of these words. Results showed that this imagery rating was significantly related to the subjects' ability to read (learn) the words. The word list with imagery ratings is presented. (RC)

Concludes that a teacher is one who creates circumstances that will result in students' learning and is able to adapt to individual variations among students. (RB)

The Hunter-Grundin Literacy Profiles are a set of five different tasks for assessing the language and reading development of children from six and one-half to eight years of age. The Profiles are based on the findings of an earlier study of spoken language and reading development of young children, which found significant success in reading…

AFTER A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF THIS READER AND A SUMMARY OF THE PASHTO LANGUAGE, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS 25 UNITS OF READING SELECTIONS AND CORRELATED EXERCISES. A TYPICAL LESSON CONSISTS OF--(1) A SHORT PASHTO TEXT IN TYPEWRITTEN ARABIC-PERSIAN FORM, (2) A ROMANIZED TRANSCRIPTION OF THIS TEXT INDICATING PRONUNCIATION, (3) A GLOSSARY OF NEW…

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…

FOUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO BEGINNING READING--THE BASIC READING PROGRAM, SELF-SELECTION IN READING, LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION ARE EXPLAINED. THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT EACH METHOD ARE ANSWERED--WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS METHOD. WHY IS THIS METHOD CONSIDERED A SOUND APPROACH. HOW DOES THE TEACHER BEGIN. HOW DOES THE…

THIS ELEMENTARY READER IN MODERN PERSIAN IS THE FIRST OF THREE PERSIAN READERS DEVELOPED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. IT IS INTENDED FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE A KNOWLEDGE OF PERSIAN EQUIVALENT TO APPROXIMATELY TWO SEMESTERS OF SEMI-INTENSIVE WORK, OR ABOUT 15 UNITS OF HODGE'S "SPOKEN PERSIAN." THE…

There are inexpensive products available that can provide some of the motivation, self-correction, and reinforcement aspects of computers in the classroom. Five of these are: Spelling B, Charlie, Speak and Spell, Step Language Board, and Spellbinder. Seven teachers used each product with severely disabled readers in a reading laboratory and with…

The irregularity of English spelling rules, dialect differences, and an inability to identify sound segments within a single syllable are three important reasons teachers and students have difficulty teaching and learning reading using phonics. Within the same language, phonics rules may need to be adapted to fit the dialect of the student or of…

The utility value of the final vowel-consonant-e phonic generalization was examined using 2,715 common English words. When the vowel was defined as a single-vowel, the consonant as a single-consonant, and the final e as a single-e the generalization was found to be highly useful, contrary to other recent findings. Using the total sample of 2,715…

First and second graders were taught to recognize a set of written words either more accurately or more rapidly. Both before and after word training, they named pictures printed with and without these words as distractors. Of interest was whether training would enhance or diminish the interference created by these words in the picture naming task.…

This study investigates the degree to which the beliefs of teachers of the DISTAR reading program are the same as the beliefs of teachers of basal reader programs. The content of teacher beliefs is investigated in regard to the extent of agreement or disagreement with experimentalism. The structure of teacher beliefs is investigated in terms of…