This manual presents the Spanish decoding skills. Used prior to basic Spanish language primers, it teaches the basic skills necessary for reading Spanish. It is composed of basic listening and sounding activities and work pages used to develop audio-readiness essential to mastery of basic decoding patterns. The sounds of the letters and of letter…

The theories and practices of Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori are outlined in relation to the teaching of beginning reading. Parallels are drawn between the two authors' views of the nature of intelligence and of motivation, leading to the conclusion that there may be danger of overemphasizing reading at the expense of other areas of the…

Suggests strategies which include risk-taking, monitoring one's own reading, and self-correction for helping beginning readers gain meaning from the printed word. (MKM)

Describes a program designed to help parents aid their children in the development of reading readiness skills. (MKM)

Tested first-grade children four times throughout the year on tasks of synthesis (phoneme blending) and analysis (deletion and tapping). Task analysis emphasizes the differing cognitive demands of the tasks. The deletion task in particular taps a phonemic knowledge that is truly reciprocal in its relation to reading. (Author/NH)

Recognizing the apparently successful application of the modality preference approach to beginning reading in actual practice, the failure of research to support this approach is analyzed. Identified as problem areas in the research methodology are test instrument reliabilty, comparability of the teaching component to classroom instruction, nature…

Outlines the story of one first-grade student's successful struggle with learning to read. (MD)

Provides suggestions for ways that teachers can capitalize on the popularity of movable--or pop up--books. Contains a list of such books. (FL)

In order to have both fluent reading and good comprehension, the student must be brought beyond accuracy to automaticity in decoding. (JH)

Analyzes the Bullock commission's view on the methodology of beginning reading instruction with special reference to i.t.a. (RB)

This handy resource can be used by teachers, classroom volunteers, and parents for large- or small-group shared reading instruction. Scripted language, fun activities, and sample questions on topics such as directionality, text conventions, high-frequency words, and comprehension provide the instructor with reading strategies to support beginning…

Combine whimsical rhyming verses with practical activities that span the curriculum. Ideal for emergent and reluctant readers, this book offers: (1) repeated exposure to high-frequency words; (2) engaging opportunities for word-building, sentence development, and cross-curricular concepts; (3) fun ways to boost vocabulary and build reading…

This textbook is a reader that introduces the child by very easy steps to the delights of readings. Many of the stories are original, others are children's classics or from folklore, but retold from the original sources so that the book presents them in fresh and unhackneyed form. Some of the stories included are correlated with the great modern…