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Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1981
A study investigated whether comprehension of a text could be enhanced by careful structuring of the lesson elements surrounding it. One group of ten second grade children received a reading lesson as prescribed in a basal series that directed attention to irrelevant content while failing to highlight consistently important story elements. A…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis, Grade 2, Primary Education
Beck, Isabel L.; McCaslin, Ellen S. – 1978
The eight popular commercial reading programs examined in this study were selected on the basis of their use with compensatory education students and the fact that they represent different instructional approaches. The study examined how readers are taught to break the letter/sound code, what correspondences are taught, and how correspondences are…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Decoding (Reading)
Roth, Steven F.; Beck, Isabel L. – 1984
The efforts to develop and study the effects of a microcomputer program to enhance children's decoding and word recognition skills are described in this paper. The first section of the paper discusses theory and research in the area of cognitive psychology upon which the program, "Construct a Word," is based. The second section describes…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Decoding (Reading)
Beck, Isabel L. – 1979
Approaches that appear most effective for teaching beginning reading to children who are having difficulty learning to read are discussed in this paper. Research indicates that a code-emphasis method produces the best results. To determine which type of code instruction is most appropriate, reading programs were analyzed in terms of content,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics
Download full textBeck, Isabel L.; Block, Karen K. – 1976
The instruction provided by two beginning reading programs (the Ginn 720 and the Palo Alto 1973 reading programs) are analyzed and compared in this paper on the basis of such factors as phoneme-grapheme correspondence and phonics instruction, sight word learning, and the development of reading comprehension. The comparison focuses primarily on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
