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Conservation as a Predictor of Reading Achievement
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Brekke, Beverly W.; Williams, John D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Concludes that despite a significant relationship between conservation and intelligence, neither is a significant predictor of reading achievement. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Predictive Measurement, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Identification of Letterlike Distortions by Preschool Children
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Cornell, Edward H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Explores how the preschool child identifies distortions which are similar to hand-drawn letters, and accounts for children's performance in recognizing such forms. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Letters (Alphabet), Preschool Education, Readiness
Effect of Conceptual Tempo on Kindergarten Reading Readiness.
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Sousley, Sharon A.; Gargiulo, Richard M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Examined the relationship between cognitive style and reading readiness in 104 kindergarteners before and after a visual discrimination treatment designed to modify conceptual impulsivity. Correlations were also obtained between errors and latencies on the Matching Familiar Figures Test and performance on the Metropolitan Readiness Test. No…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education
Effects of Discrimination Pretraining upon Intralist Similarity Phenomenon in Developing Beginning Reading Skills
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McDowell, Eugene E., III; Youth, Robert A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1973
Results of this study showed that the high intralist-similarity groups required more learning trails but demonstrated greater word-recognition skills than the low intralist-similarity groups regardless of whether pretraining was used although discrimination pretraining did increase the rate of learning in beginning reading. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Effectiveness of the Frostig Program for Visual Perceptual Training With Head Start Children
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Walsh, John F.; D'Angelo, Rita – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning
Comparison of Three Approaches to Teaching Reading Skills
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Hartlage, Lawrence C.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Note on the Validity of the Claim That Final Closure Is Related to Reading Achievement
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Rusch, Reuben R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Intelligence
Comparison of Reading Programs for Children with Low Levels of Reading Readiness
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Summerell, Sally; Brannigan, Gary G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Compared was the relative effectiveness of a phonetic approach (Distar) and use of a special alphabet (Johnny Right-to-Read) to reading instruction for 24 second grade children with low levels of reading readiness. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Exceptional Child Research, Grade 2, Phonetics
Systematic Evaluation of an Auditory Perceptual Skill Model in a Prereading Sample
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McNinch, George; Hafner, Lawrence – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cultural Influences, Grade 1
Prediction of First Grade Performance
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Lessler, Ken; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Testing, Failure, Grade 1
Factor Analytic Study of the Developmental Test of Visual Perception and the Metropolitan Readiness Test
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McKinney, James D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis, Kindergarten Children
Preferred Sensory Modality, Reading Readiness, and Reading Achievement in First-Grade Children
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Smith, Inez L.; Ringler, Lenore H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Processes, Lower Class Students
School Readiness Skills, Personality Characteristics and Peer Popularity of Kindergarten Children
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Patton, William F.; Edwards, Elizabeth – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Individual Characteristics, Kindergarten Children
Communication through Physical Activity for Learning Disabled Children.
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Hendry, Joan; Kerr, Robert – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Eight learning disabled children participated in an integrated program of motor and cognitive tasks over a six-month period. Compared to eight control subjects, the treated group showed greater improvement on tests of motor and cognitive skills. A physical activity program can influence basic cognitive as well as motor skills. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities