Descriptor
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| Reading Teacher | 9 |
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Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 4 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 2 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 1 |
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Assessments and Surveys
| Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary | 1 |
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Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick – Reading Teacher, 1974
Surveys how children develop their powers of word identification, and questions common assumptions about the utility of sight words. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedMangieri, John N.; Kahn, Michael S. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Reading Research, Sight Vocabulary, Textbook Research
Peer reviewedHarris, Larry A. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Kindergarten, Lower Class Students, Reading Research
Peer reviewedCeprano, Maria A. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Reviews research suggesting that there is no one method that is best for teaching sight words to every child. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Literature Reviews, Primary Education
Peer reviewedHillerich, Robert L. – Reading Teacher, 1974
Reports a study of fourteen word lists and proposes a basic list of 240 starter words. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedPacker, Athol B. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedDickerson, Dolores Pawley – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reveals that games, especially active ones, can help teach sight vocabulary to Black first grade remedial readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Games, Grade 1, Primary Education
Peer reviewedGuthrie, Frances M.; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reports that teaching educable mentally handicapped children to compare unknown words to words they already have in their sight vocabularies seems to improve their reading abilities. (FL)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Mild Mental Retardation, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedBridge, Connie A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports on a study with slow first-grade readers showing that sight words are better learned in the context of repetitive "predictable" books and language experience approach charts than from stilted preprimers. Argues that the process meshes with the basal program. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Context Clues
