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Andrews, Jean F. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The reciprocal teaching procedure, which involves interactive dialogue and teacher modeling, was used to teach prereading skills (finger spelling, book reading, story retelling, and word recognition) to 23 prelingually deaf kindergarten and first-grade students. Pre-post test analyses showed that gains were made in letter, word, and story…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Finger Spelling, Interaction

Lamb, Susannah J.; Gregory, Andrew H. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1993
Reports on a study of the relationship of both phonemic and musical sound discrimination to reading ability among 18 British first graders. Finds that discrimination of musical sounds is related to music performance but that the influential factor is a specific awareness of pitch changes. (CFR)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Letters (Alphabet)