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| Reading Teacher | 11 |
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| Bridge, Connie A. | 1 |
| DeSerres, Barbara | 1 |
| Dickerson, Dolores Pawley | 1 |
| Dreyer, Lois G. | 1 |
| Floriani, Bernard P. | 1 |
| Garton, Sharon | 1 |
| Gold, Patricia Cohen | 1 |
| Kolb, Gayla R. | 1 |
| McNinch, George H. | 1 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 11 |
| Journal Articles | 11 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 7 |
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Peer reviewedMcNinch, 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
Peer reviewedFloriani, 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
Peer reviewedGold, 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
Peer reviewedKolb, Gayla R. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Argues that the singing-reading connective helps children learn to read and fosters a love for reading. Discusses integrating music with reading and notes various activities designed to extend the singing-reading experience, involving book concepts, sight vocabulary, reading comprehension, and fluency. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Peer reviewedDeSerres, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes a method of increasing vocabulary recognition of Chapter 1 elementary students by using mastery words from basal programs, sight word cards, and modified cloze stories. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGarton, Sharon; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests a variety of class activities using word banks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
Peer reviewedDreyer, Lois G.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that traditional sight word lists do not include many of the words young learners see on the computer screen. Presents a supplementary list that incorporates such words for computer-assisted instruction in the elementary school. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Elementary Education, Microcomputers
Peer reviewedDickerson, Dolores Pawley – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reveals that games, especially active ones, can help teach sight vocabulary to Black first grade remedial readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Games, Grade 1, Primary Education
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1982
Suggestions from eight contributors include the following: how to use pattern books with beginning readers, how to develop a locally relevant basic sight word list, how to use learning styles in individualizing instruction, and how to personalize handouts. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Style, College Students
Peer reviewedBridge, Connie A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports on a study with slow first-grade readers showing that sight words are better learned in the context of repetitive "predictable" books and language experience approach charts than from stilted preprimers. Argues that the process meshes with the basal program. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Context Clues
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
