AFTER A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF THIS READER AND A SUMMARY OF THE PASHTO LANGUAGE, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS 25 UNITS OF READING SELECTIONS AND CORRELATED EXERCISES. A TYPICAL LESSON CONSISTS OF--(1) A SHORT PASHTO TEXT IN TYPEWRITTEN ARABIC-PERSIAN FORM, (2) A ROMANIZED TRANSCRIPTION OF THIS TEXT INDICATING PRONUNCIATION, (3) A GLOSSARY OF NEW…

IN SEPTEMBER 1964 THE HEGELER FOUNDATION CONDUCTED A WIDESCALE READING STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE CORRELATED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM BASED ON THE "OPEN COURT BASIC READERS" WOULD PRODUCE SUPERIOR RESULTS IN READING AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENT. THE FIRST-YEAR RESULTS ARE PRESENTED. THIRTY-TWO EXPERIMENTAL CLASSES AND 32 CONTROL…

FOUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO BEGINNING READING--THE BASIC READING PROGRAM, SELF-SELECTION IN READING, LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION ARE EXPLAINED. THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT EACH METHOD ARE ANSWERED--WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS METHOD. WHY IS THIS METHOD CONSIDERED A SOUND APPROACH. HOW DOES THE TEACHER BEGIN. HOW DOES THE…

THIS ELEMENTARY READER IN MODERN PERSIAN IS THE FIRST OF THREE PERSIAN READERS DEVELOPED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. IT IS INTENDED FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE A KNOWLEDGE OF PERSIAN EQUIVALENT TO APPROXIMATELY TWO SEMESTERS OF SEMI-INTENSIVE WORK, OR ABOUT 15 UNITS OF HODGE'S "SPOKEN PERSIAN." THE…

There are inexpensive products available that can provide some of the motivation, self-correction, and reinforcement aspects of computers in the classroom. Five of these are: Spelling B, Charlie, Speak and Spell, Step Language Board, and Spellbinder. Seven teachers used each product with severely disabled readers in a reading laboratory and with…

The irregularity of English spelling rules, dialect differences, and an inability to identify sound segments within a single syllable are three important reasons teachers and students have difficulty teaching and learning reading using phonics. Within the same language, phonics rules may need to be adapted to fit the dialect of the student or of…

The utility value of the final vowel-consonant-e phonic generalization was examined using 2,715 common English words. When the vowel was defined as a single-vowel, the consonant as a single-consonant, and the final e as a single-e the generalization was found to be highly useful, contrary to other recent findings. Using the total sample of 2,715…

First and second graders were taught to recognize a set of written words either more accurately or more rapidly. Both before and after word training, they named pictures printed with and without these words as distractors. Of interest was whether training would enhance or diminish the interference created by these words in the picture naming task.…

This study investigates the degree to which the beliefs of teachers of the DISTAR reading program are the same as the beliefs of teachers of basal reader programs. The content of teacher beliefs is investigated in regard to the extent of agreement or disagreement with experimentalism. The structure of teacher beliefs is investigated in terms of…

The development of a strategy for increasing pupil performance in the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP) is described in the introductory section of this document. This strategy, or support system, is embodied in "The Instructional Improvement Kit," presented as an appendix to the document. The kit is designed for…

This study investigated the difference in effectiveness in increasing first-grade reading achievement of a traditional reading program in which no words were taught and a program that began with formal reading instruction in preprimers and no reading readiness. The subjects were 137 pupils in six first-grade classes in a middle-class suburban…

This experiment included the construction and evaluation of a test of critical reading and thinking capable of identifying critical and noncritical readers among second and third grade children. Fact, fancy and opinion, assumption, relevancy, inference, and generalization were selected as subskill foci, based upon a survey of professional…

This paper describes various approaches to beginning reading instruction and discusses the major factors which determine success or failure in beginning reading regardless of the approach used. The teacher, the child, and the social and physical environment while being infinitely variable can be controlled to great extent by the teacher of…

The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in expressed attitudes toward reading existed after one school year's instruction in each of four different beginning reading programs. Four schools with similar populations using four different emphases in beginning reading were selected for sampling. The different emphases were Language…

The purpose of this study was to develop a test of listening comprehension for kindergarten and beginning first grade and to establish the reliability and validity of the instrument. Parallel forms of the test were developed, each form consisting of six graded passages ranging in difficulty from grade 1 through grade 4, and 14 questions measuring…