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Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1967
This curriculum outline reflects the current program in elementary language arts in the more exemplary classrooms in Hawaii. The program is described under four headings--reading, writing, literature, and speech. For reading and writing, individual skills to be mastered are listed for both lower and upper elementary grades. For literature, general…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Callenbach, Carl Anton – 1971
Two hypotheses were tested in this study: that second grade students who receive instruction and practice in nonsubstantive test taking techniques will achieve higher standardized reading test scores than second grade students who do not receive this instruction and practice both immediately following treatment and four months after treatment. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 2, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Incidental Learning
Spolsky, Bernard; Holm, Wayne – 1971
The amount of English spoken by six-year-old Navaho children as they enter first grade is increasing and will probably continue to increase. Contacts outside the reservation contribute to this increase as do the almost completely monolingual (English) schools. Location of residence is also a factor. Linguistic borrowing of English words is another…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Beginning Reading

Lundberg, Ingvar; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Examines a program in Denmark that uses metalinguistic games and exercises to stimulate preschool children's discovery of the phonological structure of language. Concludes that phonological awareness can be developed outside the context of the acquisition of an alphabetic writing system, and that this awareness facilitates subsequent reading and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
Spanos-Hawkey, Dena, Ed. – 1996
Intended for literacy students who want to share the pleasure of reading with the children they love, this book describes 26 easy, inexpensive activities to expose children to reading. Each activity explains the type of activity, lists materials needed, and provides instructions or suggestions for extending the activity. A suggested book list…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Early Experience
Schickedanz, Judith A. – 1999
Based on the premise that without a solid foundation of literacy knowledge and skill, children will have difficulty benefiting from first grade reading and writing instruction, this book for parents and teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy development from infancy through preschool. The book emphasizes age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Child Development, Classroom Environment
Thogmartin, Mark B. – 2000
This guide shows parents how to combine story reading, phonics, and writing to help their children develop into skilled and motivated readers. The guide discusses how to prepare children for reading success; how to use children's literature to promote learning and enjoyment; why combining book experiences and phonics is better than using either…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Early Childhood Education
Burns, M. Susan, Ed.; Griffin, Peg, Ed.; Snow, Catherine E., Ed. – 1999
Noting the increasing number of students who cannot read, this book shows parents, educators, caregivers, policymakers, and others how to promote the reading success of young children. It focuses on children from birth through the first 5 years of formal schooling, and includes practical guidelines, program descriptions, advice on resources, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Kame'enui, Edward J.; Simmons, Deborah C. – 1999
This book offers guidelines for designing the cognitive supports to instructional materials for students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Chapter 1, an introduction, describes the contexts of change, including the changing demography of learners, which has increased the curricular and instructional complexity that teachers face…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Davis, Mary Dabney – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
Three terms which refer to "the child" as the center of education have come into common use during the 1926-1928 biennium. The terms "the whole child," "the child-centered school," and "creative expression," when translated into current practice, indicate significant progress in educational procedures. The actual demonstration in classroom…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Educational Environment, Primary Education, Kindergarten
Mackintosh, Helen K.; Guilfoile, Elizabeth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Published originally in 1952, the bulletin "How Children Learn to Read" was the first in a series designed to illustrate the philosophy and principles set forth in The Place of Subjects in the Curriculum, Bulletin 1949, No. 12. It was planned to describe as simply as possible, especially for inexperienced teachers and for parents, the process of…
Descriptors: Teachers, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Learning Processes
Diegmueller, Karen; Viadero, Debra – Teacher Magazine, 1996
This "Research" section contains three articles. "Pedagogy" discusses the need for explicit phonics instruction combined with whole language as the most effective way to teach beginning readers. "Practice" describes a first-grade whole language reading class which incorporates phonics. "Findings" reviews briefly three studies on mixed-age…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 1998
Describes how science activities are integrated with reading and writing activities to teach reading to inner-city first graders in Portland, Oregon. Both explicit phonics and whole-language instruction are used, along with pocket charts, poetry, small-group instruction, leveled books, running records, jump-rope rhymes, and story writing. (SAS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Constructivism (Learning), Emergent Literacy, Grade 1

Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David – Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Describes theoretical and practical problems facing the field of early reading, examining: readers and texts (reader processes, text difficulty, linguistic and cultural knowledge, and unique learners); home and school (home-school match, communities and reading, preschools as contexts for reading acquisition, and best practices); and policy and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diversity (Student), Early Childhood Education
Okolo, Cindy; Hayes, Renee – 1996
This study evaluated the use of children's literature presented via one of three conditions: an adult reading a book to the child; the child reading a CD-ROM version of a book on the computer but without animation; and the child reading the book on the computer with high levels of animation. The study, in one primary grade classroom, involved 10…
Descriptors: Animation, Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction