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May, Frank B.; Eliot, Susan B. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Lists a basic sight vocabulary of 96 irregularly spelled words which should be taught through visual memory techniques. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Patterns

Hood, Joyce – Reading Teacher, 1974
Offers the rationale for switching from sight word cards to sight phrase cards and provides several other techniques to improve reading ability. (TO)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Reading Instruction

Langford, Ken – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Learning Theories, Sight Vocabulary

Gold, Patricia Cohen – Reading Teacher, 1981
Proposes the "say and write" method and the directed sentence reading method as ways of using language experience stories to develop children's sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction

Frenzel, Norman J. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Gives specific ideas for encouraging students to be flexible in their approach to decoding words. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics

Kolb, Gayla R. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Argues that the singing-reading connective helps children learn to read and fosters a love for reading. Discusses integrating music with reading and notes various activities designed to extend the singing-reading experience, involving book concepts, sight vocabulary, reading comprehension, and fluency. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency

Ceprano, 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

Winkley, Carol K. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Recommends the use of a combination analytic-synthetic approach to phonics instruction, preceded by pretesting to determine the student's stage of phonic skill development. (RW)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Education, Phonics

Hillerich, 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

Sabaroff, Rose E. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Phonics

DeSerres, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes a method of increasing vocabulary recognition of Chapter 1 elementary students by using mastery words from basal programs, sight word cards, and modified cloze stories. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Context Clues, Elementary Education

Garton, Sharon; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests a variety of class activities using word banks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education

Burt, Velma – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Descriptive Writing, Disadvantaged, Experience Charts

Durkin, Dolores – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Environmental Influences, Individual Differences, Kindergarten

Packer, Athol B. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Individualized Instruction