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McCulloch, Myrna T. – 2000
This paper aims to offer a "fresh look" and to provide some further insights on teaching basic language skills with literature and composition-based "whole" language arts programs (this could include the Core Knowledge Foundation's literature), and on the time and attention this combination deserves in primary-level classrooms.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Language Arts, Phonics
Smith, Carl B.; Ruff, Regina – 2000
By actively involving the child in hearing, saying, seeing, and writing the letters and sounds, this workbook develops a child's skill in recognizing the consonant sounds as well as the most important short and long vowels through a series of 52 lessons. It is appropriate for parents to use with their second- or third-grade children. By using this…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Parents as Teachers, Phonics
Smith, Carl B.; Ruff, Regina – 1998
By actively involving the child in hearing, saying, seeing, and writing the letters and sounds, this workbook develops a child's skill in recognizing the alphabet and the initial sounds in words through a series of 78 lessons. It is appropriate for parents to use with their kindergarten and beginning first grade children. By using this learning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Parents as Teachers, Phonics
Smith, Carl B.; Ruff, Regina – 1998
By actively involving the child in hearing, saying, seeing, and writing the letters and sounds, this workbook develops a child's skill in recognizing consonant sounds as well as the most important short and long vowels through a series of 70 lessons. It is appropriate for parents to use with advanced first grade children. By using this learning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Parents as Teachers, Phonics
Stoicheva, Mila – 1999
The purpose of this digest is to review various interpretations of balanced reading instruction and to explore the relationship between this instructional approach to beginning reading and state reading standards. Sections of the digest address what balanced reading is, offer examples from classroom practice, and discuss reading instruction and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Reading, Phonics, Primary Education
Wardhaugh, Ronald – Elementary English, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Skills, Linguistic Competence, Linguistics

Fitzgerald, Gisela G. – Reading Improvement, 1981
Reviews the research on the initial teaching alphabet (i/t/a), the sources of conflict and misunderstanding involving its use, and its future in reading instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Literature Reviews, Phonics

Groff, Patrick – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Shows two major handicaps in the anti-phonics movement which suggest that the future of the movement is doubtful: (1) the demonstrable weakness in both the theory and method of anti-phonics; (2) the increasing confidence that publishes and editors of widely used basal readers are placing in phonics. (BF/JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics, Reading Instruction

Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 2003
Considers how public opinion and entire theories of teaching reading are based in the false Just So story--Just Sound Out, and you can read. Explains why sounding out is a handicap. Suggests a better alternative, teaching by recognizing words. (SG)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Politics of Education

Sumpter, R. David; Szitar, Bernita – Reading Improvement, 1993
Discusses two questions concerning entering first graders' abilities in language awareness: what are the connections from skills knowledge to beginning reading for these children; and what additional skills or experiences are needed that will help these children move toward reading on their own? (NH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemic Awareness

Moustafa, Margaret; Maldonado-Colon, Elba – Reading Teacher, 1999
Reviews research on the question of how to best teach letter-sound correspondences in beginning reading instruction. Describes a new, child-friendly, research-based way of teaching letter-sound correspondences to English- and Spanish-speaking children, which is not only explicit, systematic, and extensive, but also context embedded and meaningful.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, English, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence

Seymour, Philip H. K.; Duncan, Lynne G.; Bolik, Fiona M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 1999
Replicates a study of a "common unit" task which includes modifications to the original procedure. Confirms the pattern observed in the original study: beginning readers learning by a mixed method can identify shared phonemes but not shared rimes in the common unit task. Discusses implications. (RS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Phonemes, Phonics

Goswami, Usha – Journal of Research in Reading, 2000
Discusses the implications of Goswami and Bryant's (1990) theory about important causal connections in reading for classroom teaching, and reviews more recent "rhyme and analogy" research within this framework. Discusses new research on the nature of the English spelling system and the representation of linguistic knowledge. Emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Literature Reviews, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics

Meyer, Rick – Talking Points, 1999
Describes one teacher's unhappiness with the teaching situation because of the school district's recent adoption of a systematic intense phonics instruction program that every K-3 teacher is required to use with every child via whole group instruction. Argues for the importance of whole language instruction. (SG)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Identification (Psychology), Phonics, Primary Education
Albert, Elaine Acker – 1991
This primer supplies systematic basic phonics material for learning how to read, to be put into the hands of children. The primer includes instructions for the teacher, but it assumes that the user also has read either the book, "How the Alphabet Works," or the matching pamphlet, "Systematic Basic Phonics," which is included in the back of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Phonics