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Hagin, Rosa A. – 1983
The program entitled Prevention of Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Model, developed and operated by the Learning Disorders Unit of New York University Medical Center, has three elements: scanning, diagnosis, and intervention. Educational intervention is done primarily by Board of Education teachers and educational assistants under the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
Marion, L. Marvin – 1982
A questionnaire on reading was administered to every student in the St. Joseph, Missouri, "Rainbow" program for gifted and talented readers. The same questionnaire was administered to a cross sectional sample of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in regular classrooms in the same district. Among other things, results showed that (1) 75% of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Comparative Analysis
Weiss, Maria J. – 1986
Six eclectic basal readers were evaluated to determine what basal readiness programs are teaching kindergarten and early first grade children. Each lesson was analyzed to discover the main purpose of instruction as stated in an objective or skill and the actual requirements placed upon the child during instruction. Using the recommendations from…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
Download full textEhri, Linnea C. – 1982
Research on children's oral reading errors provides evidence that both top down and bottom up processes interactively contribute to reading. Syntactic and semantic expectations are sources of information for top down processing, while knowledge of letter-sound relations provides information for bottom up processing. As children learn to read,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Learning Theories
Chapman, L. John – 1982
A longitudinal survey that was part of a larger British research project on the perception of textual cohesion has yielded some insights into the reading problems of students on both sides of the primary/secondary school line. Subjects were 1,355 children, ages 8, 10, and 13. Two booklets for junior school and two for secondary school students…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Osborn, Julia B. – 1979
The Pre-Reading Assessment Inventory (PRAI) was designed to fill a need for a wide-range, individually administered diagnostic test of a child's prereading skills (especially auditory blending and segmenting), knowledge, encoding and decoding strategies, and understandings about the reading task. The test development was based upon the research…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies
Plate, Ruth Ann – 1978
The daily newspaper was chosen for its flexibility and diversity to provide the materials for the instructional strategies outlined in this teaching guide. The lessons, intended for adaptation to all grade levels, are organized into seven sections: reading readiness, phonics and structural analysis, comprehension skills, life skills, reading in…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Newspapers
Butler, Dorothy – Horn Book Magazine, 1983
Suggests that remedial reading teachers deemphasize skill building in favor of reading aloud to children, replicating the experience of children raised in a book-reading family. (AEA)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Reading, Literature Appreciation, Parent Child Relationship
Huhn, Ralph H., Jr.; Arrington-Huhn, Martha – 1986
Intended for use mainly by secondary school teachers of students with low reading achievement, the Reading to Learn (RTL) model provides the teacher with a way to assess, prescribe, adjust for individual differences, and develop reading skills while teaching content. An informal screening test (IST), the first step, determines which students are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Low Achievement
Warash, Barbara Gibson – 1984
The West Virginia University Child Development Laboratory has successfully used microcomputers as a complement to their language experience approach to teaching three- and four-year-old children. The computer acts as a motivational tool, and gives children the opportunity to produce perfectly typed pictures or letters. The first encounter a child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Acquisition
Gleason, Thomas P.; Rankine, Fred C. – 1977
An experimental bilingual bicultural French language program for kindergarten students in a former French-speaking area of Western Newfoundland was initiated in an integrated primary school in September 1975. The experimental class of thirty students was taught entirely in French while the control group received twenty minutes of French per day…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, French
Lamb, Pose – 1979
The performance of 68 preschool children, ages three (28), four (21), and five (19), on selected phoneme-grapheme correspondence tasks was analyzed for age and sex differences in two stages of data collection. First, the children spelled their first names and the initial of their last names with letters on a magnetic board, after which they…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age Differences, Beginning Reading, Child Development
Hall, Tracey E.; Baker, Scott – 1995
This paper provides background information on school reform and describes efforts to implement an assessment system for students with disabilities in 12 nongraded primary classrooms. Background information briefly covers the school restructuring movement, the history of nongraded primary education, alternative assessment strategies which focus on…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, High Risk Students
Hollingsworth, Sandra – 1983
To determine the factors accounting for children's growth in decoding skill, a study examined school entering characteristics--age, sex, ethnicity, and developmental abilities--and school-influenced skills and characteristics--phonemic awareness, letter-name knowledge, basal text, and place in series--of approximately 100 grade one students.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1
Dahlgren, Gosta; Olsson, Lars-Erik – 1986
A study was conducted to describe conceptions of the usefulness of reading (the function or "why" of reading) and conceptions of the reading process (the form or "how" of reading) among preschool and first grade children in Sweden. The research paradigm used--based on the work of Vygotsky and Piaget--was called the "second…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
