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Download full textChomsky, Carol – 1976
Children are ready to write before they are ready to read; thus reading instruction should be an outgrowth of abilities children develop through inventing their own words. This gives children practice with the more concrete activities of word composition before they undertake the relatively abstract task of reading. Writing exercises may be given…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Conference Reports, Language Experience Approach
Fletcher, J. D. – 1976
Two beginning reading curricula that use computer assisted instruction were developed during 12 years of work at Stanford University. This paper describes those curricula and the motivations, assumptions, procedures, and problems that were involved in their construction. Twelve observations about curricular design and development are summarized to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Conference Reports
Tovey, Duane R. – 1977
Traditionally, reading instruction has emphasized the visual-sound correspondences in language. The illusion that words can be "sounded-out" letter by letter and word by word to produce meaning needs to be re-evaluated according to the psycholinguistic nature of the reading process. Some nonvisual aspects of reading which are…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education
Nichols, Nancy J. – Educ Leadership, 1969
From Educational Leadership Research Supplement, volume 2, number 4, March 1969.
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Beginning Reading, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individual Development
Schwartz, Elizabeth – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "Journal of Reading, Volume 12 (November 1968), 139-141
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individual Reading, Junior High School Students, Language Arts
Peer reviewedHayes, Robert B.; Wuest, Richard C. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education
Kaufman, Maurice; Lynch, Mervin – 1979
A study was undertaken to identify the factor structure of a battery of readiness measures and to demonstrate the concurrent and predictive validity of one instrument in that battery--the Pre-Reading Screening Procedures (PSP). Concurrent validity was determined by examining the correlation of the PSP with the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT),…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Factor Structure, Predictive Validity, Primary Education
Taylor, Nancy E.; Blum, Irene H. – 1981
A battery of four reading readiness assessment tasks was administered to 267 first grade students to determine if the tasks predicted reading achievement as well as the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT). The four tasks, which were the best predictors in a previous study of seven readiness tasks, were the aural word boundaries task, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Jansen, Mogens – 1978
This document reviews the changes in reading in Denmark from 1934 to 1976 and discusses factors that brought about the changes. The paper indicates the importance of the library in reading development and notes that children use the library more extensively today than they did earlier. Changes in society and their effects on the educational system…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Huydic, Valerie – 1978
The "Direct Instructional System for Teaching Reading" (DISTAR) is a highly structured, synthetic method of teaching reading that was developed to provide beginning and remedial reading instruction to primary school children who have had difficulty learning from other materials. To determine DISTAR's effectiveness as a teaching method,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Passanante, Gail R. – 1979
To investigate the effect of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) on spelling proficiency, a study was devised whereby seventh grade students who had been taught reading in the first and second grade using ITA were compared with students who had been taught in the traditional manner. Each group of students was tested on the spelling sections of two…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Howlett, S. C.; Stennett, R. G. – 1977
The early Intervention Subcommittee of the London (Ontario) kindergarten through grade six Curriculum Committee was asked to develop recommendations for the early identification and remediation of children likely to experience difficulties in the acquisition of reading skills. The subcommittee decided to try what appeared to be some of the best…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Identification, Intervention
Ceprano, Maria A. – 1980
A total of 158 children from seven kindergarten classes participated in a study that compared the effectiveness of a context emphasis approach for teaching sight words with an approach that emphasized the distinctive features of the words presented alone. Within classes, the students were assigned in equal numbers to the treatment conditions:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Distinctive Features (Language), Kindergarten Children
Degler, Lois Sauer – 1979
In Nashville, Tennessee, there are children representing 24 different non-English language groups. Teachers involved with planning instruction for and teaching such language minority children should consider not only the language differences, but also the cultural differences since many foreign students are from cultures very different from the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
GOTKIN, LASSAR G.; MCSWEENEY, JOSEPH – 1967
A FOURTH PROGRESS REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BEGINNING READING SKILLS PROGRAM USING THE EDISON RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS INSTRUMENT IS PRESENTED. THE ACQUISITION OF A SEQUENCE OF COMPLEX BEGINNING READING SKILLS IS EXAMINED. MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES ARE DISCUSSED. THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED IN FIELD STUDIES--(1) THE EFFECTS OF TWO TYPES…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiovisual Instruction, Beginning Reading, Individual Instruction
