A number of criticisms have been made of currently available standardized pre-reading test materials in terms of their appropriateness for administration to urban children, their standardization, their content, and their required testing procedures. This new pre-reading skills battery has been designed as an urban oriented testing instrument to…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is in two main sections dealing respectively with the course methods and the media. The first section contains information on the philosophy of the program and the three stages of teaching reading in the kindergarten: reading development; initial…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This document is the appendix of supplemental resources for use with the Kindergarten Reading Guide (SP 007 233). It has the following contents: Stage I which includes motor development, identification of self and surroundings, hand-eye and small muscle…

If taught well, reading instruction can have a positive effect on kindergarten children. (Author/MLF)

The purpose of the study was to explore the possible effects of music activities, specifically singing and movement on certain reading test scores in beginning and pre readers in a Reading First school. Participants were 8 kindergarten and 17 first grade students (N=25) at a Reading First elementary school in an urban school district in the…

Data collected during the standardization of the 1976 Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) were examined to provide information on sex differences in prereading skills. The MRT are designed for administration either at the beginning of kindergarten or between kindergarten and first grade. Performance on the six subtests and the total test on both…

Brief discussion of readiness experiences including listening, asking questions, viewing interesting things, and writing about class experiences. (BRT)

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO TRAINING METHODS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE CRITICAL FEATURES OF LETTER-LIKE FORMS WAS STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE 32 KINDERGARTEN PUPILS. SIX NONSYMETRICAL, STANDARD LETTER-LIKE FORMS AND FOUR TRANSFORMATIONS, CONSISTING OF RIGHT-LEFT AND UP-DOWN REVERSALS, 180 DEGREES AND 90 DEGREES ROTATION, WERE USED AS STIMULI TO LEARNING.…

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN TO DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTRODUCING CERTAIN LANGUAGE CONCEPTS IN KINDERGARTEN WHICH ARE NOT NORMALLY INCLUDED AT THAT LEVEL. SPECIAL EFFORTS WERE GIVEN TO MAKING THE CHILDREN AWARE OF THEIR SPEECH HABITS, LETTERS, WORDS, AND SENTENCES. VISUAL AND AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION SKILLS WERE…

In order to ascertain the effectiveness of a short instructional program involving four marking skills required in following directions, a study was conducted with six kindergarten classes (130 children) taught by three teachers. The experimental and control groups in each class were given the pretest and posttest on the same days; otherwise, the…

This Pupil's Book is a workbook designed for use with the Southeastern Education Laboratory/Project Language curriculum guides, Level Two, Lessons 1-32. In the workbook, the pupil is directed to respond to photographs or sketches in ways which indicate his understanding of himself and of his home and family. The major emphasis of the SEL/Project…

Discusses results of a survey of kindergarten teachers on the question of early reading instruction in kindergarten classrooms in the state of Virginia. (CS)