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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN. – 1988
A selection from the many citations of material in the ERIC/RCS Reprint Bibliography entitled "Helping Parents Understand the Stages of Their Child's Reading Development," this FAST (Focused Access to Selected Topics) annotated bibliography can serve as a guide and beginning point for parents who want to become better informed about any…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Elementary Education
Schumacher, Sally – 1984
Ethnography is a research methodology that belongs to a genre of research called by various names, including educational anthropology, participant observation, case study, field study, and naturalistic inquiry. Ethnography was used as the research methodology for a nine-month study of adult beginning readers in Virginia. The research design was a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Beginning Reading
Bruton, Ronald W.; Owen, Thomas R. – 1988
A study compared the effectiveness of intensive phonics instruction (a combination of the Distar and Lippincott methods) with a language experience approach (Success in Reading program) in the first and second grades. Subjects, 48 first and second grade students in the Hillsboro School District in Oregon, were divided into two groups (matched…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1
Sloan, Glenna Davis – 1987
Memorable language that delights children, makes them laugh or gasp, or causes them to ponder and wonder is the literature that will begin the process of teaching them to read and write. Literature is meant to connect, not with reason primarily, but with readers' and listeners' imaginations and emotions, and in the case of poetry, with something…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature
Mason, Jana; Osborn, Jean – 1982
A commonly held belief about reading instruction in the elementary grades is that students must first learn to read so that they will then utilize their reading skill to learn from written language and to acquire new ideas. Consequently most of the instructional time in the primary grades is spent in teaching students how to recognize words and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) attitudes and reading achievement in an innovative high school; (2) the interaction of learning styles and word type as they affect word recognition among…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Style, Doctoral Dissertations
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1985
Focusing on research about children's acquisition of reading and spelling skills, this paper discusses the larger picture of reading acquisition, issues addressed by research, and results of this research. The paper cites numerous studies on the subject, including studies on whether environmental print experiences enable young children to process…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Elementary Education
Black, Janet K.; Puckett, Margaret – 1984
Focusing on the learning styles of young children, this position statement presents current research and information that document the need for developmentally appropriate reading experiences during the kindergarten and prekindergarten years. The paper contains the following sections: (1) a background statement, (2) current literacy research…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Theories, Kindergarten
Seitz, Victoria – 1977
This monograph, part of a series about the development of reading processes, focuses on the research about social class and ethnic group differences in learning to read. Among the topics discussed are considerations in the interpretation of research findings, genetic versus environmental explanations of the relationship between socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Ethnic Groups
Root, Jane H.; Schall, JoAnn – 1976
The sequential program in the "Read On" series uses a diagnostic/prescriptive approach to teaching adults and teenagers who have little or no competence in basic reading skills. This introductory packet consists of a text and workbook that deal with adult themes ranging from grocery shopping to fishing and motorcycling and a teacher's guide…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
LaPray, Margaret H. – 1978
This publication is designed to give classroom teachers and reading specialists at all levels 42 ready-to-use informal diagnostic devices for the early and accurate identification of individual and group reading needs. It is organized into eight sections. The first contains suggestions to aid teachers in using various testing devices. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Listening Comprehension
Jacquette, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
The ten articles in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference. The first two articles present different perspectives on current research in the teaching of reading comprehension, the third offers a systematic plan for teaching comprehension to remedial readers, and a fourth looks at reading as a tool for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Rudorf, E. Hugh, Ed.; Jones, Virginia W., Ed. – 1968
In this document, points of view are presented by a group of educators and academicians whose common purpose was to explore the area of beginning reading. Articles deal with (1) definitions of reading and problems with the use of associated terminology, (2) various theoretical considerations of the processes of learning which apply to beginning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Graphemes
Hellmuth, Jerome, Ed. – 1968
The second volume of "The Disadvantaged Child" is devoted to Project Headstart and to early childhood in general. The 20 chapters discuss genetic and environmental theories relevant to educational practice, problems of educational assessment, the relation of health and nutrition to development and learning, language development, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Culture Fair Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
O'Donnell, C. Michael P. – 1968
Seventy-eight kindergarten children were randomly placed in four experimental classrooms. Two of the classes were taught with the basal reader approach to reading readiness, and two were taught with the conceptual-language program approach. An extensive pretest battery was given to these children in October 1967. Instruction in the two approaches…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis