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Download full textTANYZER, HAROLD J. – 1967
THE NATURE, FUNCTIONS, AND TRANSITIONAL STAGE OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (I.T.A.) IN BEGINNING READING IN THE UNITED STATES ARE DISCUSSED. THE MEDIUM, I.T.A., WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A TRANSITIONAL ALPHABET, OF WHICH SPELLING IS AN INTEGRAL PART. THE MEDIUM IS DESIGNED TO RATIONALIZE THE DECODING PROCESS AND AT THE SAME TIME PROVIDE A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Instructional Materials, Orthographic Symbols
MATTSON, ROBERT H.; SAGE, DANIEL D. – 1965
THE REINFORCING EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES, IN WHICH A VERBAL LEARNING TASK WAS PRESENTED, WERE TESTED. THE LEARNING TASK INVOLVED A SIMULATION OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE PUPIL APPROACHES BEGINNING READING THROUGH THE ACQUISITION OF A BASIC SIGHT VOCABULARY. THE CRITERION FOR MEASURING DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT WAS ESTABLISHED AS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Programs
GIBSON, CHRISTINE M.; RICHARDS, I.A.
THIS STUDY TESTED THE ARRANGEMENT OF AN INTERRELATED PROGRAM OF PROCEDURES THAT CAN MUTUALLY GENERATE AND NURTURE THE LEARNING PROCESS FOR BEGINNING READING. CLOSE, SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF PEOPLE OF VARYING AGES WERE MADE. THE MATERIALS HAD BEEN DESIGNED, FIELD TESTED, AND REFINED BY A LANGUAGE RESEARCH GROUP AT THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Material Development, Reading Comprehension
HAMMOND, W. DORSEY; STAUFFER, RUSSELL G. – 1965
A LANGUAGE ARTS APPROACH TO BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS COMPARED WITH A BASIC READER APPROACH. IN GENERAL, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE LANGUAGE ARTS APPROACH TO BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD. IT PRODUCED EXCELLENT RESULTS IN READING PERFORMANCE, WORD ATTACK SKILLS, SPELLING, VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Arts
Mason, Jana M. – 1981
After considering the advent of knowledge about prereading from a longitudinal perspective, this report then reviews the research on preschool children's attempts to read and offers a discussion of cross-sectional research on both prereading and beginning reading. The discussion is organized in terms of three hypothesized strands of prereading:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Prereading Experience, Preschool Education
Sullivan, Emilie Paul – 1980
A study investigated the effect of using read-along materials on the acquisition of incidental sight reading vocabulary for prereaders and beginning readers. Specifically, the study examined whether such readers acquired sight vocabulary words from exposure to read-along materials and the types of words that were learned more readily than others.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Teale, William H., Comp. – 1980
This biliography contains annotations of publications relating to theory, research, and practice in early reading (reading prior to the time a child begins attending school). The 142 annotations are listed under the following headings: comprehensive studies, theoretical issues, pedagogical issues, empirical issues, reviews, and bibliographies. (RL)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Prereading Experience
PDF pending restorationRoberts, Wesley K.; Stone, David R. – 1977
Paul Hanna (1966), in his classic spelling study, developed frequency tables that described the relative frequency of the letters (graphemes) used to represent the major English sounds (phonemes). By restructuring the Hanna tables, a set of tables may be developed for estimating levels of reading difficulty based upon the relative frequency of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Primary Education
Hayes, Robert B.; Wuest, Richard C. – 1969
The following approaches to beginning reading were compared: (1) a basal reader program utilizing a whole word, carefully controlled vocabulary, and ability grouping procedures; (2) a phonics approach, with many different words, using essentially whole class procedures; (3) a combination whole word basal program supplemented with a phonics…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Educational Attitudes, Elective Reading
Paolo, Margaret Fleming – 1977
Ten easy-to-read books were examined for readability using Fry's Readability Graph and Betts' criteria for oral reading performance. Five first-grade and second-grade children read selected passages from each of the ten books. A correlation of 0.73 was obtained between rank orders according to readability graph scores and according to oral reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Masters Theses, Oral Reading, Primary Education
Kelly, Ann Marie – 1977
Ninety kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students participated in this study of ability to segment oral language into words and word units. Each child completed two individually administered oral segmentation tests and the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Results indicated that the ability to segment orally presented sentences developed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Oral Language
Madison Public Schools, WI. – 1976
A study was conducted to determine the effects of class size on the reading achievement of 517 representative Madison (Wisconsin) students in a three year longitudinal sample. Data included reading achievement, IQ, attitudes toward reading, parents' and teachers' ratings of student interest in reading, sex, age, socioeconomic status, and average…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Size, Predictor Variables, Primary Education
Insights Into Open Education, 1974
Focusing on reading, this issue of "Insights" contains three sections. The first, by Clara A. Pedersen, lists 20 questions which teachers and administrators should ask themselves before administering reading tests. The second, "What's Wrong with Reading Tests" by Deborah Meier, defines reading, describes learning to read, and analyzes the problems…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Kleederman, Frances F. – 1974
This paper discusses the linguistic aspects of reading instruction in the elementary school language arts curriculum. The contents include: "Decoding vs. Comprehension," which discusses what constitutes reading comprehension, transformational theory of language, and grammatical knowledge the speaker of English possesses; "Syntactic Factors in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Ability, Language Arts
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1971
A limited analysis of alternative approaches to phonemic-level word attack instruction is provided in this document. The instruction segment begins with training in letter-sound correspondences for which mastery of certain skills is assumed. Instruction ends with the decoding of novel items having a consonant-vowel-consonant construction. Contents…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Models, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
