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Robb, Laura – Instructor, 1997
Presents two activities for building elementary school students' vocabulary skills and increasing their knowledge of phonics and spelling patterns. The primary activity involves word mapping. The intermediate activity helps students pronounce and understand unfamiliar, multisyllabic words. A reproducible page on vocabulary strategies is included.…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Phonics
Peer reviewedBaber, Gail; Bacon, Ellen H. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1995
This study with 12 2nd- and 3rd-grade students with mild disabilities compared memory for new reading words following instructional sessions in which either word meaning or phonic cues were emphasized. The phonic instruction resulted in a greater number of words remembered either within sentences or on word lists. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Instructional Effectiveness, Memory, Mild Disabilities
Ekwall, Eldon E. – 1986
The Ekwall Reading Inventory is a set of reading passages ranging in difficulty from preprimer through ninth-grade level and contains instruments for assessing students' knowledge of letters, phonics, basic sight words, vowel rules and syllable principles, and contractions. The reading passages are designed to measure students' oral and silent…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories
Download full textMcGee, Alice E.; Weinstein, Rachel S. – 1996
This practical guide to teaching reading offers activities to teach reading readiness and mathematics. It also discusses the reasons for reading to children, teaching phonics, and using the basal reader. The section on reading readiness focuses on the importance of such skills, and specific reading readiness skills such as visual discrimination,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1983
Six contributors suggest ways to (1) improve handwriting, (2) help children choose reading materials, (3) develop sight vocabulary, (4) use phonics with ESL learners, (5) use Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading, and (6) teach reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Learning Activities, Phonics
Greene, Sylvia Lotspeich; Wheeler, Joann – 1989
This literacy kit is designed for adult students reading at the 0-2nd level and their teachers or tutors. It is divided into eight sections: basal reader, phonics, sight words, spelling, writing, comprehension, generative words, and survival skills. The basal reader section consists of a cross-reference guide relating chapters in the reader to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basal Reading, Daily Living Skills
Allred, Ruel A. – 1984
The purpose of this booklet is to help teachers become familiar with current research-based spelling trends so that they can apply them in their classrooms. The first section of the booklet reviews current trends likely to influence spelling instruction, including practices related to the writing process, studying spelling from the learner's…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Wesson, Caren; And Others – 1986
This manual outlines a process for preparing individualized lesson plans in reading that are consistent across time, to assist in determining the effectiveness of various teaching methods for use with special education students. Part I discusses components of the plan: instructional procedures and target skill, time spent on each activity, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Barnes, Martha; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this curriculum guide is to assist Training Specialists in teaching Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development (ABE/GED) students basic skills in language arts and mathematics. The guide begins with an introduction (purpose, overview, adult learner characteristics, teacher type), curriculum policies, curriculum structure,…
Descriptors: Addition, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1987
This guide is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors who are teaching adults and teenagers to read. The nature and extent of the adult illiteracy problem and the process of learning to read are discussed in the first chapter. The characteristics that are desirable in basic reading tutors and those that are encountered in adult learners…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
