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Reed, Deborah K. – Center on Instruction, 2012
This resource is a compilation of three documents that support the teaching of spelling in today's schools: a discussion of "Why Spelling Instruction Matters", a checklist for evaluating a spelling program, and tables of Common Core State Standards that are linked to spelling instruction. "Why Spelling Instruction Matters"…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Spelling, State Standards, Reading Ability
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Carney, John J.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1985
An approach that combines a signing or gestural component with an integrated approach to word learning--reading, listening, speaking, and writing--has been used successfully with mildly disabled children who demonstrate difficulty acquiring sight words through typical approaches. The seven-stage sequence of instruction is described. (CL)
Descriptors: Mild Disabilities, Sight Vocabulary, Sign Language
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Chiang, Hsu-Min; Lin, Yueh-Hsien – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2007
The authors reviewed studies on teaching reading comprehension to students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) with a focus on text (academic reading) comprehension and sight word (functional) comprehension. Eleven of 754 studies met the inclusion criteria: participants with ASD, published in English in a peer-reviewed journal, and use of an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literature Reviews, Comparative Analysis, Sight Vocabulary
Quinn, Cathleen E. – Academic Therapy, 1980
The author offers 16 sight word "tricks" that children can use to remember the spelling of 25 common sight words. Materials and techniques for teaching sight words are also suggested. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Memory, Sight Vocabulary, Spelling
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Cates, Gary L.; Rhymer, Katrina N. – Reading Improvement, 2006
An ABAB withdrawal design was used to investigate the effects of explicit timing on accurate oral reading rate of sight word phrases of four elementary students demonstrating difficulty with reading. During baseline the students were exposed to flash cards with sight word phrases and asked to read them out loud and were not made aware that they…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Rate, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Simms, Rochelle B.; Falcon, Susan Claire – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
A method for teaching sight words to elementary level learning disabled children is proposed which relies on input organization, a strategy in which teachers reorganize information into small, related units for instruction. Also included are sample word categories, results of the method's use, and recommendations for use. (DB)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Classification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Jurenka, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2006
Teaching phonemic awareness can be boring and repetitive in the hands of a teacher who wishes to just use a workbook approach. This delightful book packs loads of fun into 75 lesson plans, providing educators with myriad creative strategies for integrating word study with children's picture books. Each lesson includes a read-aloud book…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Mayberry, Rachel; Waters, Gloria S. – 1987
To test three hypotheses concerning fingerspelling's contribution to word recognition, 24 deaf children in three age groups (7-9, 10-12, and 13-15 years) were administered a vocabulary recognition test and a lexical decision task. Subjects' performance was measured by the number of words accurately identified and the response latency. Results did…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Finger Spelling, Sight Vocabulary
Quinn, Cathleen E. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Spelling tricks for 35 sight words that can be used by learning disabled or regular classroom students are given. They include replacing silent or confusing letters with pictures to aid visual recall; locating a smaller, more familiar word in the longer word; and rhyming certain letter groups to related words. (VW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Sight Vocabulary
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McNinch, George H. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Demonstrates that intensive direct instruction followed by practice can help slower students learn sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
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Ferguson, Anne M. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Offers a teaching technique that modifies the cloze procedure into letter-cloze independent activities designed to aid children in learning difficult sight words. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Learning Activities, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
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Martin, Jane; Sakiey, Elizabeth – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1981
A technique for teaching sight word vocabulary through combining common syllables was used with two neurologically impaired elementary grade students. (DB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Neurological Impairments, Reading Difficulties, Remedial Reading
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Floriani, Bernard P. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes how, by systematically creating new words from known ones, remedial readers can improve their word attack skills. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading, Sight Vocabulary
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Gold, Patricia Cohen – Reading Teacher, 1981
Proposes the "say and write" method and the directed sentence reading method as ways of using language experience stories to develop children's sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
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Doyle, Patricia Munson; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989
The study compared the effectiveness and efficiency of concurrent and isolation-intermix instruction in teaching four preschool children to read common words in their environment. Concurrent instruction resulted in students learning conditional discriminations in fewer trials and minutes of instructional time suggesting the value of teaching…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Preschool Education
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