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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
This document provides the following four tips for supporting reading skills for children ages K-3 at home: (1) Have conversations before, during, and after reading together; (2) Help children learn how to break sentences; (3) Help children sound out words smoothly; and (4) Model reading fluently by practicing reading out loud with your child.…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Young Children, Family Environment, Parent Role
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This document begins by providing four tips parents and care takers can use to supporting childrens' reading skills at home: (1) Have conversations before, during, and after reading together; (2) Help children learn how to break sentences into words and words into syllables; (3) Help children sound out words smoothly; and (4) Model reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Young Children, Family Environment, Parent Role
Elley, Warwick B. – 1988
The prevailing assumption underlying practice in the classroom is that children acquire most of their new words from context during silent reading. The trouble with learning from silent reading is that many pupils do not read widely or quickly enough. Reading aloud to children will, however, allow them to participate in activity that they all can…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Research
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Martoncik, Kathy O'Brien; Erickson, Lawrence G. – Reading Psychology, 1982
Points out how student understanding of as well as student confusion about reading and word recognition are both functions of teacher behavior. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Instruction
Adams, Caryl L. – Academic Therapy, 1982
Psycholinguistic insights relevant to diagnoses of reading difficulties are considered, and the importance of evaluating oral reading performance on significant word recognition errors rather than on total errors is emphasized. (CL)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Oral Reading
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Taylor, Barbara M.; Nosbush, Linda – Reading Teacher, 1983
Argues that encouraging poor readers to correct their miscues helps them to improve their skills in reading for meaning. Proposes a four-step procedure to encourage corrections. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Wulz, S. Vanost; Hollis, John H. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Explains six tasks which require comprehension of words and which can be used to teach beginning readers. (MKM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Olson, Mary W., Ed.; Homan, Susan P., Ed. – 1993
Intended for preservice and inservice teachers, this book presents a collection of the best strategies and activities selected from "In the Classroom," a regular column of teaching ideas in the journal "The Reading Teacher" (October 1983 to May 1991 issues). Strategies in the book were selected for their proven effectiveness…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
Tierney, Robert J.; And Others – 1985
Designed primarily for use with basal reader instruction, this book describes over fifty reading instruction strategies and practices. The book is divided into the following 11 units: (1) "Lesson Frameworks"; (2) "Comprehension and Content Area Reading Strategies"; (3) "Strategies for Responding to Reading as Writers"; (4) "Text-Based…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Riverside Publishing Co., Chicago. IL. – 1991
The Diagnostic Assessments of Reading with Trial Teaching Strategies (DARTTS) is a program of diagnostic tests with sample lessons in aspects of literacy. Developed by Florence G. Roswell and Jeanne S. Chall, the DARTTS program is published in a multilevel format for beginning through advanced (high school) readers. Teachers administer and score…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
Becker, Evelyn Z.; McCormick, Sandra – 1991
This review examines all data-based ecologically valid studies published in "Learning Disability Quarterly" or "Journal of Learning Disabilities" that addressed reading instruction and were published from 1980 to 1990. It first looks at studies focusing on comprehension, including such reader factors as prior knowledge, metacognition, and visual…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)