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Vander Stappen, Caroline; Reybroeck, Marie Van – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Few previous studies have directly linked the contribution of phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) to the development of phonological processing and orthographic processing in reading. These studies are predominantly cross-sectional and focus on reading development predictors, with relatively little emphasis on spelling…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, French, Phonemes, Written Language
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Oweini, Ahmad; Hazoury, Katia – International Review of Education, 2010
While the English language boasts a century of research into its most frequently-used words, no such attempt has ever formally been made in the Arab world. This pioneering study presents a list of 500 commonly-used words in the Arabic language based on compilations of words gathered from a number of popular reading series in Lebanon, spanning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Semitic Languages, Word Lists
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Coyne, Peggy; Pisha, Bart; Dalton, Bridget; Zeph, Lucille A.; Smith, Nancy Cook – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Literacy instruction for students with significant intellectual disabilities traditionally emphasizes isolated skills instruction focusing on sight words and basic vocabulary. Recent research suggests these students benefit from high-quality instruction that includes comprehension and storybook reading. This study examined the effect of a…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Beginning Reading, Mental Retardation, Reading Achievement
Whyte, Donna – Crystal Springs Books, 2004
Experienced educator Donna Whyte has compiled her ideas for using film containers in the classroom into "131 Ways to Use Film Containers" so that they can be shared with other teachers. She includes engaging ways to use them in teaching children about word families, sight words, and punctuation marks; skip counting, estimating, and predicting; and…
Descriptors: Nonprint Media, Literacy Education, Sight Vocabulary, Punctuation