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Download full textFurukawa, James M.; Sakamoto, Takahiko – 1980
It is estimated that approximately 15% of the school children in the United States have reading problems, while only about 1% of students in Japan have such difficulties. A joint study was conducted by researchers in the two countries to identify possible causes for this difference. Subjects were 61 Japanese kindergarten students in an urban…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1979
The history of three non-Latin based orthographies--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--is reviewed in this paper. The characteristics of the three orthographies are examined regarding the ease of learning to read with these varied symbol systems. Attention is given to the incidence of reading disability in different orthographies, and research is…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Asian Studies, Beginning Reading, Chinese
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1980
The 25 articles in this collection focus on reading as a humanizing experience. The topics covered include the following: (1) the politics of literacy; (2) the holographic nature of the reading process; (3) literacy through language communication; (4) life-long reading; (5) diagnosis of reading disabilities based on psychoeducational analysis of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Willows, Dale M. – 1979
To assess the extent to which syntactic and semantic information guides the reading performance of skilled and less-skilled readers in the intermediate grades, a study was conducted involving 96 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. The students were matched both within and across grade level on nonverbal IQ and within each grade level on age.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1977
An overview of some of the important developments in the psychology and teaching of reading during the past ten years is presented in this booklet. Four developments that are characteristic of the decade are described in an introduction: reading and social conscience, growth in reading research, increase in interdisciplinary advisory committees,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
SMITH, CARL BERNARD – 1968
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF READING METHOD AND COMPOSITION AND TO DISCOVER A WAY TO EVALUATE FIRST- GRADE COMPOSITION. PARTICIPANTS WERE 779 LOW INCOME, FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN FROM SIX CITIES. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS IN SOCIAL BACKGROUND, MATURATION, INTELLIGENCE,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Evaluation Needs
Morrison, Coleman; And Others – 1968
Among the CRAFT project total population of 1,378 disadvantaged urban children, 58, or 4 percent, were identified at the beginning of first grade as early readers on the basis of their ability to identify words in print. All children in the study were taught to read by either the Skills Centered or the Language Experience Approach. Achievement…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Reading
Kerfoot, James F. – 1965
This publication contains pa ers contributed to the fifth Perspectives of Reading conference of the International Reading Association which focused on the teaching of beginning reading. The following approaches are described and evaluated: (1) individualized reading, (2) basal reading, (3) linguistic approach, (4) phonics approach, (5) new…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Jenkinson, Marion D., Ed. – 1966
Participants in this conference represented France, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel, Ireland, and Brazil. Each of the 33 articles is printed in the language in which it was delivered (English except for two articles), and each is preceded by short…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, International Education, Literacy, Perceptual Development
Larrick, Nancy, Ed.; Stoops, John A., Ed. – 1967
Highlights from the 16th annual Reading Conference of Lehigh University are organized under the following major headings: The Voice of Theory, The Voice of Practice, and The Words of Reform. Some of the papers presented deal with the following: (1) the use of films, records, and filmstrips as a way of introducing picture books to children in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Audiovisual Aids, Beginning Reading, Migrant Workers
Taylor, Nancy E. – 1977
In order to study young children's awareness of interword space as a cueing convention and determine their ability to deal with language on an abstract level, 23 black kindergarten children who had been exposed to formal reading instruction were tested. In the first test children were asked to study cards on which a single word or groups of words…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cues, English Instruction, Kindergarten Children
D'Annunzio, Anthony – 1975
The purpose of this research study was to compare two kinds of perceptual training for kindergarteners. A control group was grouped for instruction in visual or auditory perception. The children whose weaker modality was auditory received an "Open Court" program which stressed the acquisition of phonetic skills. The Frostig-Horne program was given…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Learning Disabilities
Mooney, Florence Eliese – 1975
The purpose of this study was to obtain background information regarding the curriculum content of elementary reading methods courses for the development of a classification system of that content. This information was compiled from three separate sources: textbooks designated for use in an elementary reading methods course, opinions and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Curriculum, Developmental Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Ryan, John W., Ed. – Literacy Discussion, 1974
The topic of this review concerning international literacy is the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and his theories and methods for teaching illiterates to read by teaching them fewer than 20 three syllable words, reflective of their social condition, such as "Shanty-town" and "wages" ("favela" and "salario"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Cultural Awareness
Dank, Marion Edelson – 1976
Second-grade pupils using the Ginn "Reading 360" or the McGraw-Hill "Programmed Reading" were compared in their reading and retelling of the story "King Alfred and the Cakes." Analysis, using the Reading Miscue Inventory, of the performance of 20 selected pupils indicated that those taught with "Programmed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
