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Download full textSaunders, Dara; Gierke, Terri – 1999
This report describes a program for increasing phonemic awareness in the primary grades. The targeted population consisted of first and second grade students from middle class communities located in the Midwest. Research indicated that students who enter primary grades without phonemic awareness might have reading difficulties. Lack of phonemic…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Instructional Effectiveness
Sepsi, Karen Jean – 1976
Children, four, six, eight, and twelve years old, and adults participated in a study of judgments of syllable similarity. Subjects listened to a disyllabic nonsense unit (the standard) followed by two comparison stimuli; they were then asked to choose the comparison stimulus "most like" the standard. Changes between the comparison stimuli and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Stetson, Elton Grant – 1976
A sample of 270 first, second, and third graders participated in this study of the pronounceability of the 119 phonograms identified in the Glass Analysis for Perceptual Conditioning Program for poor decoders. Each subject was asked to pronounce each of the phonograms. Subjects were cross-classified by grade level, sex, and reading ability as…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations
Britton, Earl William – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a meaning-emphasis or a code-emphasis method of teaching beginning reading to first-grade children was most efficacious. The following procedures were employed: establishment of a workable definition of the reading process, development of an experimental design in which the control of natural…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Grade 1
Davis, Margaret Blanche – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the pronunciation of pupils and teachers to determine the deviation from the expected pronunciation for each group, and to determine the influence of dialect on reading performance of pupils. A random sample of 20 first grade pupils and 20 elementary teachers from four small, rural, all-white elementary…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Dialects, Doctoral Dissertations
Andrews, Nancy Cunningham – 1976
Six children from one first-grade classroom were videotaped 18 times over a seven-month period, while reading aloud complete stories. Analysis of the first 50 miscues and the last 50 miscues in both new and familiar materials read by the children yielded profiles of each child's oral reading strategies. The major findings indicated that these six…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Context Clues, Doctoral Dissertations
