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The Effects of Word Walls and Word Wall Activities on the Reading Fluency of First Grade Students
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Jasmine, Joanne; Schiesl, Pamela – Reading Horizons, 2009
Reading fluency is the ability to read orally with speed and efficiency, including word recognition, decoding, and comprehension (Chard & Pikulski, 2005). Able readers achieve fluency as they recognize words with speed and build upon them to aid in comprehension (Pumfrey & Elliott, 1990). One way to help students achieve fluency is through the use…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Action Research, Sight Vocabulary, Bulletin Boards
Teaching Confused Words.
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Schell, Leo M. – Reading Horizons, 1984
Provides a number of suggestions for teaching children often confused words. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Learning Activities, Primary Education
They Can All Sound Good.
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Leidholdt, Lorraine Mary – Reading Horizons, 1989
Encourages teachers to use imitative reading, choral reading, and repeated readings in the classroom to improve intonation, speaking skills, word recognition, reading rate, and comprehension, while boosting self-confidence. (RAE)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Skills, Oral Reading, Reading Achievement
Changing Perspectives on Context.
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Morgan, Argiro L. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Shows how older, largely context-free models of reading and its instruction became changed into a multidimensional, context-dependent orientation toward written language and the reading process and concludes with suggestions for using a variety of contextual strategies to increase reading comprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Models
Elementary Students' Definitions of Reading.
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Ngandu, Kathleen M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Good and poor readers from grades 1-6 were asked to define what they meant by reading. Older children and above average readers were more likely to view reading as a meaning identification process as opposed to a general activity or word identification process. (MKM)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Drill versus Discovery: The Effects on Student Attitudes.
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Hill, Charles H. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Reports on a study that investigated both cognitive and affective outcomes of imposing a highly structured, repetitive, teacher-oriented routine for teaching decoding and comprehension upon a traditional basal reading program. (Author/GT)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Pattern Drills (Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Content Area Textbooks--Waste Not....
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Robinson, Sandra L. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Discusses problems that students encounter in reading content area textbooks; presents learning activities in the areas of word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills. (MAI)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Teaching Reading to the Hearing-Impaired Child
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Schwartz, Judy I. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Describes the components of a reading program for deaf children that is characterized by systematic and carefully planned increments of instruction, intensive review and reinforcement, and the use of materials that control the semantic and syntactic features of language. (MAI)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Oral Communication Method
Our Daughter Learns to Read and Write: Looking Back.
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Baghban, Marcia – Reading Horizons, 1986
Summarizes and updates original study done on reading and writing development of a preschool child. (SRT)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language