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Sartain, Harry W. – 1981
To discover the truth about the extent of children's reading vocabularies, a project was undertaken at the Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, to determine how many words first, second, and third grade children could recognize in print. A team of graduate students tabulated the words appearing in commonly used basal materials and in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Computational Linguistics
Download full textKarsh, Kathryn G. – 1990
This final report describes activities of a federally funded project which developed an educational computer-assisted instructional program for persons with severe disabilities. A preliminary review of the literature identified specific inadequacies of most software for this population, such as: too few examples of a task or concept thus limiting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
Grocke, Margaret – 1982
Computer-based reading programs have been used at the City Educational Clinic in Canberra, Australia, to improve the reading skills of children who are "reading disabled." Children interacted with the computer via a graphic display, touch sensitive screen, and synthesized speech. The first program taught a basic sight vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
Gaskins, Irene W.; And Others – 1988
In the past, phonics instruction has done little to lessen the difficulties that many poor readers have with decoding words quickly and accurately enough to construct meaning from text. Based on an analysis of the research literature in decoding and a four-year cycle of program development, a new program was created for teaching decoding to poor…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Role
Peer reviewedBoduch, Melissa L. O.; Pollard, Connie – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2004
This is the story of Lily, a 12-year-old girl with Williams Syndrome (WS). A reading program was developed to meet Lily's specific reading needs while addressing her individual learning style; this includes attending to the unique characteristics of Williams Syndrome. During this school year, Lily showed significant gains in sight word recognition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Reading, Reading Programs, Sight Vocabulary
Johnson, Genevieve Marie – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
Constructivism refers to a collection of educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student personal interests and needs. In contrast, instructionism refers to a collection of educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, product-oriented, non-interactive, and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Remedial Reading, Sight Vocabulary
